Latest update from the Icelandic Authorities.
23rd August 2014 17:08 - status report
Overall assessment from the joint daily status report 230814 of the Icelandic Met Office and the University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences:
The aviation color code has been raised to "red" as the data is currently interpreted as a subglacial eruption. Both the thickness of the ice at the possible contact point (100-400 m) and the volume of lava in possible contact with ice are highly uncertain. It could be 0-20 hours before lava reaches the surface of the ice. It is also possible that the lava will not break through the ice, and the eruption could remain subglacial.
In other words, nothing is certain at this time.
Last edited by grebllaw123d; 23rd Aug 2014 at 20:55.
Reason: small correction: subglacial instead of subglacia.