Grimsvotn Eruption

Grimsvotn Eruption

The cloud rising up from Grimsvotn as a result of the eruption was seen first time around 1900 GMT and in less than an hour it had reached an altitude of 11 kilometres (6.8 miles),’ according to the Icellandic meterological institute.

In this image taken from amateur video, smoke from the Grimsvotn volcano, Iceland is seen from a plane Saturday, May 21, 2011.

Smoke rises from the Grimsvotn volcano on Saturday in Reykjavik, Iceland. Iceland’s most active volcano has started erupting, scientists said just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days.

In this Friday, Dec. 18, 1998 file photo clouds of steam spew from beneath Europe’s largest glacier, the Vatnajokull glacier, near Grimsvotn in southern Iceland throwing gases an estimated 32,000 feet (9,750 metres) into the air.

A plane flies near clouds of dust above the volcano on Grimsvotn mountain in eastern Iceland Tuesday Nov. 2, 2004.

In this photo taken on Saturday, May 21, 2011, smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles, (200 kilometers) east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004.