I should be honest going into this assignment I did not know much about historical volcanic eruptions. The only

think I really did know came from watching the movieDante’s Peakwhich I sure is not an accurate

representation of how volcanic eruptions occur. In reviewing eruptions, I decided to focus on the eruption

ofEyjafjallajökull. This volcanic eruption caused zero deaths but that does not mean it did

not have an impact. The volcano is in Iceland and when it erupted massive amounts of

ash was released into the atmosphere. This ash caused the closure of large amounts of

air space over Europe. The closer of this air space per the newspaper The Guardian

resulted in “The global airline industry is losing more than £130m a day because of the

disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud that has%brought Britain's air transport

network to a halt.” ( ) The 130 million British Pounds is roughly 160 million US

dollars. I found this to be very interesting because previously I was under the

impression that a volcano could only really a/ect someone if they lived very

close to it and they could not get away from the lava come down the

mountain or something to that a/ect. Eyjafjallajökull however is a volcano in

a little country in the middle of the ocean that did not hurt, burn, or kill

anyone when it erupted however if shut down the Air transportation system

of an entire continent. I think this shows how a volcano can do so much more

then lava burning everything for a few miles. In this case it a/ected the lives

of millions of people most of which lived nowhere near the volcano.

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Reference List

Wearden, Graeme. (2010, April 16

). Ash cloud costing airlines£130m a day.TheGuardian. Retrieved from 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/apr/16/iceland-volcano-airline-industry-iata