Iceland Volcano Erupts Again

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The eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month.

Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:15 PM ET | content provided by Gudjon Helgason and Jill Lawless, Associate

A volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupted Wednesday for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, spewing smoke and steam, closing a major road and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters.

Authorities evacuated 800 residents from around the Eyjafjallajokull glacier as rivers rose by up to 10 feet (3 meters).

Emergency officials and scientists said the eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month, and carried a much greater risk of widespread flooding.

"This is a very much more violent eruption, because it's interacting with ice and water," said Andy Russell, an expert in glacial flooding at the University of Newcastle in northern England. "It becomes much more explosive, instead of a nice lava flow oozing out of the ground."

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http://news.discovery.com/earth/iceland-volcano-eruption.html

[nebenaube]

1. hmm...

cloudy with rain... in northern europe for about the next two years. I'm off to Intrade.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Ok. With that noted, I expect a few more Icelandair's diversions

to other countries to avoid the volcano ashes in Aviation Herald.

Hawkeye-X

[mikelgb]

3. kick

[supernova]

4. Pics of the volcano up at The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/mar/25/iceland-volcano-eruption