Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting on April 14, 2010, disrupting air traffic for days.

2010 Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Volcano
Issued by Iceland July 22, 2010
Designers: Borgar H. Árnason, Hany Hadaya, H2 design

The volcanic eruption that began in Eyjafjallajökull just before midnight on 20 March 2010 is considered a single eruption in two separate phases. In the first phase, the magma occurred in Fifth Avenue. The eruption was relatively small and, according to seismographs, appeared to end on 12 April. About a day later, on the night of 14 April, the eruption resumed and the magma emerged in the southwest side of the summit crater of Eyjafjallajökull. Then in the morning, large volcanic plumes stretched 30 kilometres south. The volcanic ash was scattered throughout Europe and caused massive disruptions to air traffic for several days, the largest since the end of World War II. The second eruption is thought to have produced about 250 million cubic metres of ash. Ashfall caused heavy livestock [disruption] in southern Iceland. Extensive evacuations were taken and hundreds of families evacuated from the worst-hit locations. On 21 May, eruption activity decreased significantly, indicating that the eruption was in remission, although the end of the eruption could not be predicted.
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