For those of u still in interested in the matters of the world, you would have heard of the massive flight cancellations in Europe due to the ash clouds spewed from an iceland volcano.
The volcano’s name is “Eyjafjallajökull”. — WTF?~!~
For the ones who are curious, Wikipedia has a sound clip on the pronunciation.
Below are some of the excerpts about the volcano.
Eyjafjallajökull first erupted on March 20, 2010, in a fiery display that sent fountains of lava shooting high into the air and ribbons of lava flowing down cliff faces.
That eruption, the volcano’s first in nearly 200 years, opened up new vents nearby and built a 27-story-tall cone of magmatic rock.
After an initial evacuation of nearby villages in March, flooding fears subsided and the Iceland volcano quickly became a popular tourist attraction.
As of April 13, Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption seemed to be quieting down. But just hours later another eruption broke out on another part of the volcano.
The initial series of eruptions did not trigger flooding, because the active vents were in a mostly ice-free part of the landscape, Einarsson explained. (See aerial pictures of the Iceland volcano.)
By contrast, the current eruption started beneath a 650-foot-thick (200-meter-thick) block of ice. Heat from the eruption quickly transformed the glacier into a fast-flowing torrent of water.
via NatGeo
