Back in 2010 we posted "How to short a volcano" (What did Eyjafjallajökull screw up?) with an extensive list of areas and activities the volcano affected:
...(In addition to grounding European aviation for days on end and exhausting headline-writers’ supplies of volcano puns.)...MORE
The UK General Election … betting on 2010 temperatures … Southern California music festival … UK schoolgirls’ geography field trip … the Norwegian Government (iPad to the rescue) … touring wrestlers … Boston Marathon runners … the London Book Fair … health of pets … football, ice hockey and running … Premier League referees … the gilded progresses of celebs and pop stars … John Cleese’s trip home … football, cycling and running … Polish state funeral … transport of wounded soldiers … Dubai luxury hotel opening … Morocco golf tournaments … exams, exotic foods and surgery … yet more celebs (Hollywood ‘paralized’, no less) … Japan MotoGP … the international oil market … and even more celebs … European stocks and shares … Kenyan flower growers … Kenyan vegetable growers … movie premieres … BMW production in South Carolina … and still more celebs (superstar forced to take Irish Sea ferry) … youth boxing … equestrianism … football (also boxing, running, tennis, motorcyle racing) … organ transplants … Ghana farming, war crimes trials, rose growing, car making, flowers for New York weddings … travel plans of dogs, horses, snakes, geckos, turtles … classical concerts in San Diego … classical concerts in Salt Lake City … classical concerts in New York … Tribeca Film Festival … Metallica tour (kings of heavy metal fight back, take bus) …
Here's the latest from Britains Channel 4:
Bároarbunga: why air travellers needn’t fear another 2010
Iceland’s Bárðarbunga volcano looks like it’s about to blow. But don’t worry, say volcanologists, the eruption probably won’t ruin anybody’s travel plans – it’s the wrong kind of ash.
When the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in 2010 departure boards across Europe clattered to a halt for six days as an ash cloud grounded air traffic. More than 10 million travellers were affected with costs estimated at around a billon pounds.
But evidence from mapping the recent earthquakes near the volcano, which usually presage an eruption, suggest it’s not going to generate the kind of ash that will spread across Europe.
Rather than erupting from the centre of the volcano, magma appears to be heading for two separate areas to the side of Bárðarbunga – Iceland’s second highest mountain....MORE
