Iceland’s ash cloud Eyjafjallajokull pictures

Natural disasters are not the topic that fascinates me but this last one, Iceland’s ash cloud produced by Eyjafjallajokull glacier volcano eruption, sure gave us some unbelievable photo shots, unlike anything seen before.

By the way, Eyjafjallajokull volcano name is pronounced
EY-ya-fyat-lah-YOH-kuht
- according to the New York Times.

Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull eruption and lightning strikes pictures

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Photo above: Lava and lightning light the crater of Eyjafjallajokul volcano on April 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

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Photo above: Lightning streaks across the sky as lava flows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokul April 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

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Photo above: Lightning, smoke and lava above Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokul volcano on April 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

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Photo above: The first of 3 photos by Olivier Vandeginste, taken 10 km east of Hvolsvollur at a distance 25 km from the Eyjafjallajokull craters on April 18th, 2010. Lightning and motion-blurred ash appear in this 15-second exposure. (© Olivier Vandeginste

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Photo above: The second of 3 photos by Olivier Vandeginste, taken 25 km from the Eyjafjallajokull craters on April 18th, 2010. The ash plume is lit from within by multiple flashes of lightning in this 168 second exposure. (© Olivier Vandeginste)

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Photo above: The third of 3 photos by Olivier Vandeginste, taken 10 km east of Hvolsvollur Iceland on April 18th, 2010. Lightning flashes and glowing lava illuminate parts of Eyjafjallajokull’s massive ash plume in this 30-second exposure. (© Olivier Vandeginste)

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Iceland’s ash cloud and horses pictures

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Photo above: Horses fight near the town of Sulfoss, Iceland as a volcano in Eyjafjallajokull erupts on April 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

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Photo above: Ingi Sveinbjoernsso leads his horses on a road covered volcanic ash back to his barn in Yzta-baeli, Iceland on April 18, 2010. They come galloping out of the volcanic storm, hooves muffled in the ash, manes flying. 24 hours earlier he had lost the shaggy Icelandic horses in an ash cloud that turned day into night, blanketing the landscape in sticky gray mud. (HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP/Getty Images)

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Photo above: Farmer Thorarinn Olafsson tries to lure his horse back to the stable as a cloud of black ash looms overhead in Drangshlid at Eyjafjoll on April 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Ingolfur Juliusson)

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Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier volcano eruption via satellite

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Photo above: The ash plume of southwestern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano streams southwards over the Northern Atlantic Ocean in a satellite photograph made April 17, 2010. The erupting volcano in Iceland sent new tremors on April 19, but the ash plume which has caused air traffic chaos across Europe has dropped to a height of about 2 km (1.2 mi), the Meteorological Office said. (REUTERS/NERC Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, Scotland)

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