Most Active Volcano erupts in Iceland Grimsvotn

TEMPO Interactive, the most active volcano in Iceland, Grimsvotn, erupted. Grimsvotn mountain began erupting on Sunday, May 22, 2011. According to experts, this Grimsvotn eruption will not interfere with aviation as a mountain Eyjafjallajokull last year. Related News

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Grimsvotn eruption is marked by white smoke that rose high and some times a small earthquake. The mountain is located in an unpopulated area under Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland.
Fly zones have also been established as far as 220 kilometers. Isavia, the company that operates and develops all airport facilities and air navigation services in Iceland, said the ban zone is standard procedure in the vicinity of the eruption.
"Cloud of smoke had reached a height limit of the plane flying zone. All through the Icelandic for aircraft flying to the south," spokesman Isavia, Hjordis Godmundsdottir, as quoted by news agency Associated Press, Sunday, May 22, 2011.
Grimsvotn mountain last erupted in 2004. Scientists have been predicting the eruption of this mountain will again. According to them, this eruption is small and will not and flights as happened in April 2010 when the volcano erupted Eyjafjallajokull.
  The Icelandic Meteorological Office official who is also a geologist, Hjorleifur Sveinbjornsson, told Reuters that Grimsvotn has issued a white smoke reached a height of up to 15 km. "This eruption can indeed be a big eruption, but not like (the eruption of Mount Eyjafjallajokull) that occurred last year," said Sveinbjornsson.
  History shows that the eruption Grimsvotn not have much effect on air traffic, unlike last year's disturbances.
According to geophysicist at the University of Iceland Pall Einarsson last year's eruption is a rare occurrence. "Ash in Eyjafjallajokull very strong and unrelenting" Einarsson said. "Ash in Grimsvotn more rough and not dangerous because of falling to the ground faster and not stay in the air like eruptions Eyjafjallajokull."
An Icelandic coast guard aircraft that carries a number of experts from the University of Iceland will monitor the mountain. They will be surrounded and evaluate the latest situation.