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🗓️ 11 May 2022
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In 2010, a previously little-known Icelandic volcano erupted twice, sending a huge plume of volcanic ash all over Europe. The ash cloud grounded flights for days, causing inconvenience for millions of passengers. Reena Stanton-Sharma talks to Icelandic geophysicist and Eyjafjallajökull-watcher, Sigrun Hreinsdottir.
(Photo: The awesome power of Eyjafjallajökull. Credit: Getty Images)
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0:40.8 | Rina Sant and Sharma. Today I'm taking you back to March 2010, giving you a bird's eye view of an Icelandic |
0:48.3 | volcano as it erupted. It was the start of a disaster for the aviation industry because hundreds of thousands of people around the world were left stranded. |
1:01.0 | Aver was unreal. There was always this question, what if it would erupt, but I never really thought I would witness this in my lifetime. |
1:08.0 | It was really the first eruption I see after becoming a scientist, and it was was just it was just incredible. |
1:14.4 | That's Sigran Hrainstotir, a geophysicist who'd been studying a volcano |
1:19.2 | called Aya Fyatilayokud on the south coast of Iceland. It hadn't erupted for almost 200 years. |
1:26.0 | Then one day she got a call from the Coast Guard. |
1:30.0 | There wasn't the greatest, so we went on a plane with the Coast Guard, a few scientists, a few media people, |
1:36.4 | and we took a circle around the volcano. First, when we saw that eruption, it was just on the screens of the plane like the radar images like a big blob of light |
1:47.4 | and we could start seeing it through the window and then we just got you you know, closer and closer. |
1:54.0 | And it was just this, it was just so amazing to see this out of the little winter. |
1:59.0 | We were in the dark, it was in the middle of the night, and we just see this beautiful little |
2:08.0 | fisher in the surface. |
2:10.0 | It was like in this blackish area, there was very little snow there and there was just this 300 |
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