Category Earthquakes

MAGNITUDE 4.5 MOROCCO

Subject To Change Depth: 10 km Distances: 290 km SW of Casablanca, Morocco / pop: 3,144,909 / local time: 21:14:09.2 2014-08-31 91 km SW of Marrakech, Morocco / pop: 839,296 / local time: 21:14:09.2 2014-08-31  

RED ALERT issued due to an eruption near Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland

Bardarbunga:Icelandic authorities Sunday raised an aviation alert to the highest level of red for a small area in the south-east, after a fissure eruption near the Bardarbunga volcano.   The eruption began at about 0600 GMT in the Holuhraun lava…