When the Fimmvoruhald volcano at Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull glacier erupted on Wednesday, it sent a massive cloud of ash 20,000 feet into the air. While Iceland was largely unaffected by the cloud, it has shut down air travel throughout northern Europe, grounding more than 17,000 flights on Friday alone. Here's a look at the volcano's impact and some other intriguing images from a small country that never seems far from the headlines.
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RHODESCOLOSSUS
4:04 PM ET
April 17, 2010
YES!
Iceland strikes again!
RBOBLEE
8:05 PM ET
April 18, 2010
Volcanic Winter in Another Year Without a Summer
Time to stockpile canned foods and dried grains and beans.
The harvest in the Northern Hemisphere is about to fail - and the Chinese will be hungry.
Foreign Policy should fully appreciate the consequences to world trade and the escalation of global conflicts on all scales.
Afterall, it's not just one volcano that has awakened. It's the entire ring of fire, because the earth is contracting.
MARIOLEAO
6:23 PM ET
April 20, 2010
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do you have cientific information to back that comment of ring of fire? I'm not saying it's not true and am indeed very interested on the subject. thank you
MARIOLEAO
6:20 PM ET
April 20, 2010
volcano threat
Thank God Bush is gone...or else Iceland would be invaded for posessing chemical weapons...
IDLETOM
5:57 AM ET
April 22, 2010
That is an incredible photo.
That is an incredible photo. And yes, im sure bush would be invading by now, and al qaeda must be peeved its not them getting the credit.
READER
5:45 PM ET
May 1, 2010
Correction. . .
It was not the volcano that shut down the air traffic, it was clueless European bureaucrats There was never any danger to aircraft.