Eyjafjallajökull

Eyjafjallajökull sends more love

September 26, 2010

It’s been p*ssing down with rain today and thanks to the eruption in Eyjafjalljökull earlier this year we’ve got some serious flooding going on in South Niceland. Ash and mud from the eruption has filled up the riverbeds in the area, particularly in Þórsmörk National Park, where there are currently around 120 people trapped. For [...]

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Behind the volcano

July 29, 2010

This guest post comes from Elisa, an American expat living in Reykjavík, who writes the beautiful blog Reykjavík Harbor Watch. I’ve long been a fan of her writing, and am so pleased she agreed to contribute to the IWR. — Stale tire air, bugs in your hair, it’s summertime in the Icelandic highlands. One of [...]

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The Eyjafjallajökull crater, post-eruption

June 4, 2010

OK, I “post-eruption” might be a little premature, because no one can say definitively that the eruption is over. However, it has been inactive of late [fingers crossed], and this evening Kastljós had a segment in which they travelled up to the crater last night, in the middle of the night.* It’s a very spooky [...]

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Is the Eyjafjallajökull eruption over?

May 23, 2010

The volcanic eruption has been fairly low-key this past week, and according to reports from this morning it appears to have stopped altogether. At least for the time being. Reporter Ómar Ragnarsson flew over the crater this morning and told RÚV that there is no ash in the plume and it looks like the eruption [...]

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MY ICELAND: The Eyjafjallajökull eruption

May 21, 2010

So I finally managed to find time to upload some of the photographs we took from our excursion into the ash cloud last weekend. We set off around 6 pm and drove to Selfoss, where we grabbed some dinner. We set off again around 8 pm and drove east, towards Skógar. It was a gorgeous [...]

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In which we brave the ash cloud, so you don’t have to

May 16, 2010

EPI and I headed out to take a look at the eruption last night. We left town around six, because a] AAH wanted to throw a belated birthday party and we needed to get the hell out of dodge, and b] because we hoped we might be able to see the eruption better if we [...]

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Anatomy of a volcano III

April 20, 2010

Hey everyone, this just in from Mike Richards, our resident volcanologist: Hi folks, The latest on the eruption is that it seems to be settling down to a more ‘Icelandic’ style of eruption. The huge ash falls of the last few days are dwindling and most of the stuff coming out of the crater is [...]

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The kids are all right

April 18, 2010

Well it’s been a beautiful day here in Reykjavík, clear and sunny and bright, if a little cold … and honestly, if I wasn’t following the news I would have NO idea that a volcano was erupting some 150 km east of here. Much less that all of Europe had been thrown into chaos because [...]

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