Iceland volcano: The eruption happened so quickly that one scientist was at the movies.
54 years, 11 months ago

Iceland volcano: The eruption happened so quickly that one scientist was at the movies.

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On Nov. 10, a small town in Iceland cracked in half due to a sheet of magma moving between the Earth’s surface. It’s extremely hard to predict when lava will start spurting, or where in the Earth it will come from, according to Vincent Drouin, a scientist at the IMO whom we spoke with last month. One earthquake once in a while doesn’t mean anything, but when there’s an earthquake every few seconds or tenths of seconds, that means the magma is moving. The problem is: It’s stable now, like how it was on Monday at 8 p.m., but we don’t know what would cause a new pulse of magma.

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