The Iceland Bardarbunga Volcano lava explosion has gone worse and local authorities were forced to issue an aviation alert. In a report by NBC, the volcano secretes lava along a lengthy fissure Sunday afternoon and authorities immediately turned up the red warning code, the highest level.
The report says:
Lava fountains danced along a lengthy volcanic fissure near Iceland's subglacial Bardarbunga volcano Sunday, prompting authorities to raise the aviation warning code to the highest level and close the surrounding airspace. The red warning code - the highest in the country's alert system - was raised early Sunday after the eruption in the Holuhraun lava field, about five kilometers (three miles) north of the Dyngjujoekull glacier. The warning was lowered 12 hours later as visibility improved and it was clear that no volcanic ash was detected.
The red code aviation warning means no flights can fly through the airspace north of the fissure eruption area, up to 6,000 feet (1.1 miles) from the ground. This code does not affect commercial flights.
Iceland's Met office insisted though that the Bardarbunga Volcano Lava Explosion might not last that long and the warning code will be leveled down in a short time as there was only a "very calm lava eruption..hardly seen seismeters."
While this is looks dangerous for flight passengers and residents leaving nearby, a group thinks that this event can be put into good use if Bardarbunga Volcano will be promoted as a tourist spot, at least from the safest, nearest distance.
"Usually eruptions and earthquakes are considered bad for tourism as they generate fear and uncertainty" says Hjörtur Smárason, a place branding specialist from Iceland, as reported by Forbes. "However, there is a big difference from one geological area to another, and from one volcano to another"
Smárason got the idea after Eyjafjallajökull, another active volcano, erupted in 2010 and easily attracted nature lovers.
"Tourism has bombed since the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010″ said Smárason. "It is now for the first time the biggest industry in Iceland".
