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Airlines Woes? Icelandic Volcano To Erupt Again?

RT_Iceland_Volcano_2010_ml_140820_4x3_992.jpg?width=320No, not the one from April 2010 whose name no one could pronounce (Eyjafjallajokull) however a larger one (Bardarbunga) may now be heating up (pardon the pun).

In what the Meteorological Office describes as an "intense earthquake swarm," scientists registered some 2,600 earthquakes between early Saturday morning and Monday evening.

And after the strongest earthquake since 1996 was measured in the area early Monday, an orange aviation alert was posted (2nd highest alert) by Icelandic authorities -- indicating "heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption."

In 2010 the Eyjafjallajokull eruption forced the cancellation and diversion of thousands of flights per day at the peak of the problem due to ash that can damage a plane's delicate engines, while the ventilation holes can become clogged and stall the aircraft.  Over 10 million travellers were stranded around the world, waiting for winds to shift.

"It was causing problems for millions of passengers, the airli

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