TORONTO – It’s an epic flight for a drone.
More than a month after activity started at the Bardarbunga Volcano in Iceland, a drone managed to take an up-close and personal trip alongside — and almost inside — the bubbling volcano.
Iceland is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world, home to 30 active volcanoes. And that’s in an area that is smaller than Newfoundland.
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In mid-August, swarms of earthquakes near Bardarbunga indicated that volcanic activity was forthcoming. Sure enough, the 2,000-metre-tall stratovolcano began spewing lava two weeks later.
The eruption hasn’t been a catastrophic one, but a slow and persistent one. The eruption has caused the lava to flow into the Holuhraun Lava Field.
According to the Nordic Volcanological Center at the University of Iceland, as of Sept. 29, the lava flow was measured to be around 44 square kilometres. Seismic activity continues.
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