WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand authorities said monitoring equipment on the volcanic island that erupted two days ago has picked up increasing tremors on Wednesday, delaying any attempt to access the island to retrieve bodies.
"Seismic signals on the island are escalating at the moment," Graham Leonard, a volcanic geologist at GNS Science, told reporters in Wellington.
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