More intense seismic activity has been reported from Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano, amid ongoing fears that it could erupt.<br /><br />No people live in the immediate area but it’s situated in a national park popular with tourists.<br /><br />An area to the north has been evacuated. <br /><br />Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected every day, the strongest at 4.7 magnitude just before midnight on Thursday – although on Friday afternoon the volcano was calmer.<br /><br />“If an eruption happens, we need to assume that it will happen quickly with magma migrating towards the surface. It could also enter a state of equilibrium and nothing happen,” said Kristin Jonsdottir, Scientific Coordinator at the Icelandic Earthquake Monitoring Office.<br /><br />It’s thought an eruption would cause ice from a glacier to melt, bringing massive flooding from a glacial river across a wide area.<br /><br />Measures have been taken to ensure emergency power supplies.<br /><br />There are also fears that air travel could be as badly disrupted as it was in 2010 when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted, sending an ash cloud towards Europe.
