Scientists say the threat of eruption and not current environmental pressures is the chief risk in preventing a retrieval operation of bodies on White Island.
Steam and mud is jetting from the active vents on Whakaari, where seismic activity on the New Zealand island is"a factor of 12" times stronger than before Monday's deadly eruption.
"The seismic activity that started at 4 o'clock yesterday morning and carried on ramping up yesterday and throughout the night," GNS volcanologist Brad Scott told TV1 on Thursday." we're recording this morning, is a factor of 12 stronger than before the eruption occurred on Monday. Police believe eight bodies lay around 300 metres from the crater, within 200 square metres, in small clusters.It would take around 15 minutes to walk from the shore to the region where the retrieval would take place.
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