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| Iceland issues new Bardarbunga volcano lava alert | Iceland issues new Bardarbunga volcano lava alert |
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| Iceland has raised its aviation warning level after a fresh eruption from a fissure near the Bardarbunga volcano. | Iceland has raised its aviation warning level after a fresh eruption from a fissure near the Bardarbunga volcano. |
| However, Iceland's Met Office described the eruption as "a very calm lava eruption" which could "hardly be seen on seismometers". | |
| The warning means planes will be banned from flying within 6,000 feet of the volcano peak. | |
| Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in 2010, producing ash that disrupted air travel across Europe. | Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in 2010, producing ash that disrupted air travel across Europe. |
| Sunday's eruption in the Holuhraun lava field area was "calm but continuous", authorities said. | |
| It happened in roughly the same place as an earlier eruption on Friday morning, and is the third to happen in the area in the last week. | |
| The latest eruption is more intense than Friday's with around 10 times more lava said Armann Hoskuldssonk, a geologist from the University of Iceland. | |
| BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott says that even if a big cloud of volcanic ash were emitted, it would not cause the same level of disruption to flights that brought Europe to a halt in 2010. | |
| He says new equipment that airliners and engine makers have been testing would allow planes to identity and fly around ash clouds. |