Sulfur dioxide pollution from the ongoing Holuhraun eruption in central Iceland measured 7,800 micrograms per cubic metre in Jökuldalur valley, East Iceland, on Sunday, reports RÚV. Air pollution levels above 2,600 micrograms can cause harm to people’s health.
Read more: Harmful gases emitted at Holuhraun lava field stirs up memories of 18th century Laki eruption.
Read more: Holuhraun eruption could go on for years.
The pollution levels in the Jökuldalur area never measured higher. Farmer Sigvaldi Ragnarsson, on the farm Hákonarstaðir, said the smog from the eruption was so thick, one could hardly see from one end of the sheepshed to the other.
Sulfur dioxide pollution from the ongoing Holuhraun eruption in central Iceland measured 7,800 micrograms per cubic metre in Jökuldalur valley, East Iceland, on Sunday, reports RÚV. Air pollution levels above 2,600 micrograms can cause harm to people’s health.
Read more: Harmful gases emitted at Holuhraun lava field stirs up memories of 18th century Laki eruption.
Read more: Holuhraun eruption could go on for years.
The pollution levels in the Jökuldalur area never measured higher. Farmer Sigvaldi Ragnarsson, on the farm Hákonarstaðir, said the smog from the eruption was so thick, one could hardly see from one end of the sheepshed to the other.
