Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption ash cloud pictures from Iceland, Europe

Eyjafjallajokull island mountain glacier is one of the smaller glaciers of Iceland, situated to the north of Skogar and to the west of Myrdalsjokull. The volcano has erupted twice in 2010—on 20 March and 14 April. The March event forced a brief evacuation of around 500 local people, but the April eruption was ten to twenty times more powerful and is causing substantial disruption to air traffic across Northern Europe. On 14 April 2010 Eyjafjallajokull second eruption threw volcanic ash several kilometres up in the atmosphere which led to air travel disruption in northwest Europe for six days from 15 April 2010, including the closure of airspace over most of Europe. The eruptions also created rare electrical storms. Here are Eyjafjallajokull volcano ash cloud pictures below.