Eyjafjallajokull

Several hundred people have been evacuated from their homes since the volcano erupted in southern Iceland.

Eyjafjallajoekull glacier near the volcano began to discharge shortly after midnight, which you shut down the region.

No one was in immediate danger, but 500 people have been transferred to the region, civil defense official said.

It is nearly 200 years ago near the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano, 120 km (75 km) east of Reykjavik, the last eruption.

"We estimate that no one is in danger zone but we have begun the evacuation plan, and between 500 and 600 people have been evacuated," Gudmundsson of Iceland Sigur civil protection department told the Agence France-Presse news agency.

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It is feared that the eruption can cause floods, because it causes the ice above the ice sheet is melting.

"Ash has already begun to decline Fljotshlid and people have been reported in the vicinity to see the bright lights from the glacier" RUV public radio reported on its website.

"It was a little scary, but still amazing to see," Katrin Möller Eiríksdóttir, who lives Fljotshlid, told the BBC News website.

"Ash had started falling and we can not leave the car. They have now closed the road, but we'll see what happens in the morning."

Icelandair's flights to three, en route from Reykjavik from the United States, is provided to return to Boston, RUV radio reported, and much of the airspace of Iceland is a no-fly zone.

The last volcanic eruption in the region, took place in 1821.