Watchman News- Iceland Is Experiencing Its Biggest Continuous Volcanic Eruption in Centuries The last time an Icelandic volcano made headlines around the world was when the tongue-twister Eyjafjallajökull spewed tons of ash into the air in 2010, halting thousands of flights and costing airlines and passengers more than $7 billion in lost revenue. Despite the power and global impact of that volcano’s several-week-long eruption, it barely affected Iceland, dropping only a small amount of ash near its peak, Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a geophysics and volcanology researcher at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences told Newsweekduring an interview at his office in Reykjavik at the beginning of October. Read Full Article The post Iceland Is Experiencing Its Biggest Continuous Volcanic Eruption in Centuries appeared first on Trunews:. ift.tt/1rdBANA #trunews #docburkhart
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 03:21:11 +0000