Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano Reduces Activity

The Icelandic volcano which has been disrupting air traffic for more than a month is showing a marked drop in activity, new measurements suggest.

Experts say the temperature in Eyjafjallajokull's crater appears to have fallen to 100C, meaning it is now producing steam, not magma, reports BBC News.

But officials warned that it was too early to say whether the eruption was over completely. Ash clouds from the volcano grounded thousands of flights last month.

Steinunn Jakobsdottir, a geophysicist from the Icelandic Meteorological Office, told the BBC that the volcano was "kind of dormant for the moment.""The history of the volcano is such that it calms down and then it gets energy again," she said.

"There are still earthquakes under the volcano, and the tremor is still not quite down to what it was before the eruption."