Lava continues flowing from Iceland volcano after eruption
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Lava continued flowing from a volcano near Grindavik, Iceland, on Thursday, though activity had notably calmed down since its Wednesday eruption.
Volcanologist Dave McGarvie calculated that the amount of lava initially flowing from the crater could have buried Wembley Stadium in London, which seats 90,000 people, under 49 feet of lava every minute.
"These jets of magma are reaching like 50 meters (165 feet), into the atmosphere," said McGarvie, an honorary researcher at Lancaster University. "That just immediately strikes me as a powerful eruption. And that was my first impression ... .Then some numbers came out, estimating how much was coming out per minute or per second and it was, ‘wow.’"
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