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Icelandic volcano eruption intensifies
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 4/15/10 | Omar Valdimarsson

Posted on 04/15/2010 2:00:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – A volcanic eruption in Iceland, which has thrown up a 6-km (3.7 mile) high plume of ash and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, has grown more intense, an expert said on Thursday.

The eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier continued to spew large amounts of ash and smoke into the air and showed no signs of abating after 40 hours of activity, said Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland.

"The seismographs are showing that since this morning the intensity of the eruption seems to be growing," he said.

Hot fumes had melted up to a third of the glacial ice covering the crater, causing a nearby river to burst its banks, and frequent explosions on the floor of the crater sounded like bombs going off, he said.

The floods were abating, however, and some of those living in the sparsely populated area near the volcano had returned to their homes.

Another scientist said the eruption was 10 times more powerful than one which occurred last month on the flank of the volcano, though the two were part of the same event.

To the east of the volcano, thousands of hectares of land are covered by a thick layer of ash while a cloud blotted out the sun in some areas along the southern coast of Iceland, local media reported.

The cloud of ash from the eruption has hit air travel all over northern Europe, with flights grounded or diverted due to the risk of engine damage from sucking in particles of ash from the volcanic cloud.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: eruption; icelandic; intensifies; volcano
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An aerial handout photo from the Icelandic Coast Guard shows a plume of steam rising 22,000 feet (6700 meters) from a crater under about 656 feet (200 metres) of ice at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland April 14, 2010. REUTERS/Icelandic Coast Guard/Arni Saeberg/Handout… Read more »


1 posted on 04/15/2010 2:00:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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A handout photo provided by the Icelandic Coast Guard shows the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, as Iceland's second volcano eruption in less than a month melts part of the glacier. A violent volcanic eruption in Iceland spewed clouds of ash into the air for a second day, blanketing large parts of the Nordic country in the potentially toxic dust and disrupting air traffic across northern Europe. (AFP/Icelandic Coast Guard)


2 posted on 04/15/2010 2:02:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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3 posted on 04/15/2010 2:03:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: Strategerist

Pretty cool stuff going on all over the globe.. Ping


4 posted on 04/15/2010 2:04:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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A cloud of volcanic ash is seen spreading from the southern side of Iceland (top left in each picture) in this combination of handout satellite photographs taken at 1916 GMT on Wednesday (L), 0045GMT on Thursday (C) and 0915GMT on Thursday, and received from Norway's Met Office in London April 15, 2010. A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano turned the skies of northern Europe into a no-fly zone on Thursday, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. The coastlines were superimposed on the photographs by the Met Office. REUTERS/Norwegian Met Office/Handout (ENVIRONMENT)


5 posted on 04/15/2010 2:06:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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Map locating the volcano on the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland. Hundreds of flights worldwide were cancelled as volcanic ash from Iceland swept across northern Europe, causing eight countries to close their airspace amid warnings of days of disruption.« Read less (AFP/Graphic)


6 posted on 04/15/2010 2:07:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NormsRevenge

My friend is stuck in New York with her 3 year old. They were on their way to Ireland from New Orleans. She is crazed. Has to stay until Sunday to get a flight out. Was in the airport 9 hours. 1/2 of her vacation will be in New York waiting to go home.


7 posted on 04/15/2010 2:11:34 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: NormsRevenge

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/article/Iceland/Laki-Volcano-Eruption-Iceland/529

The Laki eruption of 1783.


8 posted on 04/15/2010 2:15:23 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Bitsy

At least the weather is really nice here right now


9 posted on 04/15/2010 2:16:52 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Obviously, the key question here is - how on EARTH does one pronounce “Eyjafjallajokull”?

Anyone?


10 posted on 04/15/2010 2:18:54 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: NormsRevenge
BTTT
11 posted on 04/15/2010 2:19:07 PM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: NormsRevenge

If this isn't Bush's Fault™, I don't know what is.



12 posted on 04/15/2010 2:21:52 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Dissent is Racism)
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To: Jeff Chandler

13 posted on 04/15/2010 2:28:14 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: NormsRevenge

Cold summer ahead of us. Awesome picture.


14 posted on 04/15/2010 2:28:45 PM PDT by rmlew (There is no such thing as a Blue Dog Democrat; just liberals who lie.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Supposedly the one going off with the long name might melt a glacier for another dormant one with a short name that is nearby. The dormant one is a bigger threat. Everytime the long name volcano goes off - it sets the other one off.

You have scum like Kerry, Graham-nesty and Lieberman (General Electric Joe) push for cap & trade and climate BS while this volcano has spewed out more stuff *just today* (as Rush said) than every car in history.


15 posted on 04/15/2010 2:41:09 PM PDT by Frantzie (McCain=Obama's friend. McCain called AMERICANS against amnesty - "racists")
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To: Evil Slayer

Amen to that. Foolish libs.


16 posted on 04/15/2010 2:51:28 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: Jack Hammer

“AY-eff-YALL-a-yokel” as I read it.


17 posted on 04/15/2010 2:54:50 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly at first.)
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To: Jack Hammer
"Obviously, the key question here is - how on EARTH does one pronounce “Eyjafjallajokull”?"

Why, exactly as it is spelled.

;-)

18 posted on 04/15/2010 2:57:23 PM PDT by chs68
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To: rmlew

Another incredible picture here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2493818/posts


19 posted on 04/15/2010 3:01:16 PM PDT by IM2MAD
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To: Evil Slayer
Doesn't Icland get much of their power from geothermal energy? Is it possible that if they would have tapped more of this heat energy to turn into electric power then that might have worked as a release valve, preventing this eruption.

In short, is global warming hysteria at fault here?

20 posted on 04/15/2010 3:06:15 PM PDT by sportutegrl (I don't know where I'ma gonna go when the volcano blow.)
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