AFP - the eruption of the volcano of the Iceland Grimsvoetn has tailed off the coast and its ash plume has almost disappeared, experts and officials said Wednesday, refusing to many that declare the theft disrupting closed incident.
"The plume is very low, a few hundred meters," or 600-700 feet, Urdur Gunnarsdottir, a spokesman for civil crisis management agency, told AFP after an update around noon (1200 GMT). "."
The plume still appeared mainly include steam, ash step, she said.
"It is very small, but there is still... danger of occasional explosions or a breath coming up," she said, adding: "I don't think we want to pronounce dead until his death". "."
Volcano more active of the Iceland, located in the heart of its largest glacier, Vatnajoekull, in the Southeast, began erupting Saturday, spewing a column of smoke and ash as high as 20 kilometres (12 miles) into the air.
It was the most dramatic onset of rash in a century by Grimsvoetn, which entered into eruption nine times between 1922 and 2004.
But the plume quickly decreased to between 10 and 15 kilometres, Sunday, is falling about five kilometres Tuesday morning and only two kilometres by Tuesday evening, official measures.
Icelandic authorities have pointed out that an eruption at low altitude could last for weeks and on Wednesday urged people to remain at a safe distance.
Icelandic Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said, although "the worst is over" and could start to clean up the Fox choking thick.
Iceland, who suffered a deep economic crisis after major banks were overturned in 2008, "was struck by a natural disaster," said Sigurdardottir.
"Government prepares already a number of measures to help residents, clean up the areas affected by the ash volcanic and agricultural and other economic activities of return to normal", she said.
The road since the glacier was reopened late Tuesday for the first time since the beginning of the eruption, the police said.
And in the small village of Kirkjubaejarklausur, on the glacier, most grey-brown dust that it had covered day had disappeared Wednesday and life seems to be back to normal.
Ash briefly closed the main airport of the Iceland of the day after and caused disturbances in some air travel in Europe in Wednesday, especially in Germany, which saw the closures of brief air space and the 450 flight cancellations.
But the closures were due to the ancient ash, said Gunnarsdottir.
"It has everything ash issued to altitudes higher than for 24 hours at least." It is the ash emitted during the first hours 36 eruption which is the cause of the problem. ?
A little more than a year, ash spewing from an another volcano, Eyjafjoell, caused greater air closed in Europe since the second world war, affecting more than 100,000 flights and eight million passengers.
But the plume of Eyjafjoell never exceeded 10 kilometres.
According to official calculations, vomie Grimsvoetn more ash in the atmosphere in the first 24 hours of its Eyjafjoell eruption that over a period of 40 days.
In Paris, French volcanologist Patrick Allard said the fact there were two eruptions little more than a year apart does not mean volcanoes became more active, Iceland or around the world.
"It's a coincidence," said Allard, a specialist at the Institute of Physics of the Globe from Paris (IPGP). "These eruptions are separated from each other." They were produced by two volcanoes that have their own system of magma and are more than 200 km apart. ?
Allard has warned, however, the risk of a violent eruption of the Hekla volcano, on some 60 kilometres northwest of Eyjafjoell.
For the past 60 years, Hekla was must sprung into life every 10 years or more. His last burst was in 2000, "and it is now showing signs of pre-eruption," Allard said.
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