and the flood covered most of Skeiðarársandur glacial outwash plain destroying on its way big parts of the main road Hringvegur including two bridges and some communication installations. Luckily, the road had been closed before so that nobody was injured. The volume of meltwater produced by this eruption was around 4 km3. Over the sandur streamed up to 50–60.000 m3/sec. The first estimates had been somewhat lower. Former eruption in 1938 At more or less the same place another eruption had taken place in the 1930s. It had also caused a jökulhlaup, but at the time, science could not yet analyze the events. This eruption stayed subglacial. See also Subglacial volcano Grímsvötn Subglacial eruption Bárðarbunga Ice cauldron Further reading Helgi Björnsson: Subglacial lakes and jökulhlaups in Iceland. Global and Planetary Change 35 (2002) 255–271 References 1996 in Iceland Bárðarbunga East Volcanic Zone of Iceland Grímsvötn Subglacial eruptions Subglacial volcanoes of Iceland VEI-3 eruptions Volcanic eruptions in Iceland