December near Fagradalsfjall has now ceased. GPS and InSAR images also show no further significant deformation since 28. December. Therefore the situation is evaluated so that this episode of unrest has ended and the likelihood of an immediate eruption has decreased. The area is however still closely monitored for any further developments. Therefore the aviation color code is changed from ORANGE
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A great storm passed over Iceland on Friday night, October 9th, lasting well into Saturday morning.
Wind speeds measuring 20 m/s and higher were recorded at half of the automatic weather stations in the lowland areas and similar speeds were recorded at 80% of automatic weather stations in the highland areas.
In the town of Heimaey in the Westman Islands, wind-speed* of 28 m/s
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Eruption in Eyjafjallajökull
Status Report: 12:00 GMT, 28 May 2010
Icelandic Meteorological Office and Institute of Earth Sciences, University
of Iceland
Compiled by: Ármann Höskuldsson, Hjörleifur Sveinbjörnsson, Haraldur Eiríksson, Björn
Sævar Einarsson
Based on: IMO seismic monitoring; IES-IMO GPS monitoring; IMO hydrological data;
web cameras, ATDnet – UK Met. Offices lightning detection
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