Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Iceland volcano has spewed 250 million cubic metres of ash

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Icelands Eyjafjoell volcano, that one after another causing moody disharmony in Europe Monday, has issued large amounts of ash given it began erupting a month ago and there is no finish in sight, experts said.

"Since the commencement of the eruption, we guess that 250 million cubic metres (8.8 billion cubic feet) of tephra (ash and alternative fragmental material) has been produced," Icelandic geophysicist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson told AFP.

The eruption, that began on Apr 14, had appearance 3 times, he said: "in the initial 4 days of the eruption, afterwards on May 5 and 6, and again last Friday."

On Sunday, Icelandic volcanologist Bjoern Oddsson, pronounced volcanic wake up had increasing somewhat given Friday.

"The mainstay (of smoke) has increasing and rises up to eight kilometres," he told AFP, as against to 6 kilometres in prior days.

Gudmundsson stressed that the ongoing Eyjafjoell explosion "is a big eruption," adding that for Iceland it was "the greatest given the scandalous tear at (the beside and most incomparable volcano) Katla in 1918."

"There is unequivocally no approach of revelation when it will stop. There has been utterly a bit of trembler wake up underneath Eyjafjallajoekull (the glacier covering the volcano), that equates to that magma is still emerging," Gudmundsson said.

His comments came as authorities cautioned the volcanic ash clouded cover would belligerent 1,000 flights in Europe on Monday with airports in Britain and the Netherlands hit.

Domestic flights in Iceland were additionally disrupted Monday sunrise and general flights could be impacted after in the day, aviation officials said.

"The made at home airfield in Reykjavik is closed, but those in Akureyri and Egilsstadir are still open," Hjoerdis Gudmundsdottir, a mouthpiece for Icelandic aviation management Isavia, told AFP.

"The general airfield in Keflavik is open at the impulse but I design it to close after currently as the foresee says the ash will move serve north, to illustrate in the approach of air trade routes over Iceland," she said, adding that general flights so far were handling but disruptions.

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