Iceland volcano: Air traffic restrictions above Bardarbunga.

Le trafic aérien interdit au-dessus du volcan islandais Bardarbunga

par Agathe Ranc samedi 23 août 2014.
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Un panneau de danger sur une route d’accès au volcan Bardarbunga, dans la région du glacier Vatnajokull © REUTERS / Sigtryggur Johansson. A danger sign on the access road to the volcano in the region of Vatnajokull glacier.

Le niveau d’alerte a été élevé au rouge et le trafic aérien suspendu au-dessus du volcan islandais Bardarbunga. L’activité sismique y est intense depuis plusieurs jours, et une première petite éruption a été rapportée.

The alert level was raised to red and air traffic was suspended above the volcano. The seismic activity has intensified in the past few days, and a small eruption was reported. There is speculation it could be the start of an eruption on Bardarbunga. The volcano sector is the biggest in the country. The small eruption was detected at 16h today, under a thick layer of ice that covers the volcano.

Après plusieurs jours d’intense activité sismique et des spéculations sur l’entrée en éruption du Bardarbunga, l’Islande a interdit le trafic aérien dans le secteur de ce volcan, le plus grand du pays.

Le niveau d’alerte a été élevé d’orange à rouge après qu’une petite éruption a été détectée à 17 heures (heure de Paris), sous l’épaisse couche de glace qui recouvre le volcan.

La crainte d’un deuxième Eyafjallajökull (Fear of a second

Eyafjallajökull)

Il est impossible de prévoir l’arrivée d’une éruption assez importante pour faire fondre la glace et répendre des cendres dans l’air. Mais si cela se produit, les scientifiques considèrent le Bardarbunga comme assez suffisamment dangereux pour que ses projections de cendres perturbent le trafic aérien dans le nord de l’Europe et dans l’Atlantique-Nord. Des dégâts importants pourraient aussi avoir lieu en Islande en raison de la fonte des glaces qui risque de provoquer des inondations.

L’Administration civile islandaise prévoit qu’en cas de grosse éruption, l’interruption du trafic aérien pourrait avoir la même ampleur que lors de l’éruption du volcan Eyafjallajökull : en 2010, elle avait provoqué l’annulation de 100.000 vols sur un mois, bloquant plus de huit millions de passagers dans les aéroports.

The Iceland civil administration foresee that in the case of a big eruption, there could be the same level of air traffic disruption as 2010, when Eyafjallajökull’s eruption caused the cancellation of 100,000 flights in one month, blocking eight million passengers in airports.

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Le volcan est situé sous un glacier de l’est de l’Islande © Idé (The volcano is situated under a glacier in the east of Iceland)

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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