Overall Green alert Volcanic eruption for Reykjanes
in Iceland

Event summary

GREEN alert: The Reykjanes Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 1000080
Name: Reykjanes (371020)
Lat/Lon: 63.82 , -22.72
Event Date: 18 Mar 2024 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: About 30000 people within 30km
Exposed Population 100km: About 290000 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 4
Population Exposure Index PEI: 4
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2024 07:51 UTC

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Latest media headlines

Emergenza laguna: l’invasione delle alghe 3/22/2024 3:32:00 AM.

(Di venerdì 22 marzo 2024) Orbetello (Grosseto), 22 marzo 2024 – Circa il 70 per cento della laguna di ponente è ricoperto di alghe . Tre zone critiche, invece, nella laguna di levante. Questo è l’esito di una serie di sopralluoghi e campio
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Reykjanes volcano update: new analysis reveals extent and volume of la.. 3/21/2024 9:04:00 PM.

No significant change in the activity has occurred during the past 24 hours and hence the eruption persists at well-balanced levels. The constant spattering from the chain of seven-to-eight cinder cones, the so-called spatter rampart, conti
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Vulcano islandese: un gigantesco pennacchio di gas tossico derivante d.. 3/21/2024 9:04:00 PM.

(Di giovedì 21 marzo 2024) Il percorso del gigantesco pennacchio di gas tossico dall’ eruzione vulcanica islandese Gli scienziati stanno monitorando un enorme pennacchio di gas tossico che si sta spostando attraverso il nord Europa a causa
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Sulphur dioxide from Iceland volcano eruption has reached the UK 3/21/2024 7:34:00 PM.

The latest eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland have emitted a huge plume of sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ) that is currently drifting across Europe. Fortunately, it isn’t expected to have any significant effect on weather or health. Th
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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JSR (1),