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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Nature's fury

Here are some amazing photos of Volcano at Iceland. Contributed by Mr. Bhaskaran Sivaramanclick to zoom
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Photographer Martin Rietze got to within 250 metres of the lava fountains to capture his stunning series of images
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Lava hits the sea from the volcanic eruption between the Myrdalsjokull and Eyjafjallajokull glaciers, east of Iceland's capital Reykjavik
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Only around an hour old, this lavaflow is falling from a steep cliff a few hundred metres from the main eruption
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Lava spurts out of the site of a volcanic eruption at the Fimmvorduhals volcano near the Eyjafjallajokull glacier 

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Close-up: The dark cloud of smoke coming from the Icelandic crater as seen by an Icelandic Coast Guard helicopter

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The plume from the Icelandic volcano - seen as a grey-brown streak drifting across the middle of the image - is visible from space. It was imaged by the Modis instruments on two Nasa satellites as it blew towards the Shetland Islands 
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Coating: Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University collected these particles of volcanic ash (seen here under a microscope) which fell on cars in the centre's grounds earlier today 
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Frozen: Ice chunks carried downstream by floodwaters caused by volcanic activity lie on the Markarfljot riverbank in Iceland yesterday click to zoom
Dusty: A car in Iceland drives through the ash from the volcano 
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Widespread: Ash from the erupting volcano sweeps in an arc across the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Russia in this image from NASA yesterday click to zoom
Spectacular: A satellite image of the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland 


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Spectacular: Plumes of smoke shoot up from a volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland today which has erupted for the first time in 200 years 
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The Eyjafjallajokull eruption is the second in less than a month and has seen hundreds of international flights cancelled
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 Workers have been forced to smash holes through roads in Iceland to allow the surging flood water to escape out to sea
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 Part of the glacier has melted under the ferocious temperatures causing the flood swell to pour down the mountain
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Experts are concerned the recent eruption could trigger another more powerful one from the nearby Katla volcano

The eruption has caused travel disruption across Europe as airspace has been shut down


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