Experts Seek Clues to How Long Eruption Will Go On -- New York Times
The volcanic eruption that has disrupted air travel in Europe for two days shows no signs of abating, an Icelandic geophysicist said Friday.
“It is quite variable, it goes up and down a bit,” Pall Einarsson of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland, said in a telephone interview. “But on the whole the vigor of the eruption seems very little changed.”
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