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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7273231" data-attributes="member: 92282">UPDATE FROM REUTERSThe 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.</blockquote>

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