News | Iceland Monitor | Thu 11 Dec 2014 | 10.18 GMT | Modified at 11.49

A peaceful eruption

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Volcanologist Páll Einarsson describes the eruptiona at Holuhraun in Morgunblaðið today as quite a "peaceful eruption." He adds that it behaves differently to all eruptions in Iceland in the past decades. "It just keeps going day after day with little changes."

See new photographs of the Holuhraun eruption by photographer Ragnar Axelsson.