Volcanic eruption in Europe (OT)

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Photographer

Martin Rietze got to within 250 metres of the lava fountains to capture

his stunning series of images

 

Lava hits

the sea from the volcanic eruption between the Myrdalsjokull and

Eyjafjallajokull glaciers, east of Iceland's

capital Reykjavik

 

 

Only

around an hour old, this lavaflow is falling from a steep cliff a few

hundred metres from the main eruption

 

Lava spurts

out of the site of a volcanic eruption at the Fimmvorduhals volcano

near the Eyjafjallajokull glacier

 

Close-up:

The dark cloud of smoke coming from the Icelandic crater as seen by an

Icelandic Coast Guard helicopter

 

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

 

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

 

Frozen: Ice

chunks carried downstream by floodwaters caused by volcanic activity

lie on the Markarfljot riverbank in Iceland yesterday

 

Dusty: A

car in Iceland

drives through the ash from the volcano

 

Widespread:

Ash from the erupting volcano sweeps in an arc across the Netherlands, Germany, Poland,

and Russia

in this image from NASA yesterday

 

Spectacular:

A satellite image of the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland

 

A man

surveys what is left of the main Icelandic coastal road after it was

washed away by flood water following the volcano eruption

 

Around 800

people have had to be evacuated and 70 tourists were rescued after they

were trapped by the rising flood waters

 

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

 

The

Eyjafjallajokull eruption is the second in less than a month and has

seen hundreds of international flights cancelled

 

Workers

have been forced to smash holes through roads in Iceland to allow the

surging flood water to escape out to sea

 

Part of

the glacier has melted under the ferocious temperatures causing the

flood swell to pour down the mountain

 

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