Thursday, May 20, 2010

Iceland Volcano Eruption of 2010 (Eyjafjallajokull Volcano)




Source:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/eyjafjallajokull/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=iceland%20volcano&st=cse

The natural disaster is striking whole Euope. Since evening of March 20. "the emergence of a red cloud glowing" was covering the huge glacier in iceland. However, this sciencitic activity was not tiny event. The ash that has made from volcano eruption goes up "11,000 meters" By the consequence, it influenced air traffic in Europe. Due to ash soaring up, most of flights "were canceled." It did not only influnced passengers in Europe, but also influenced passengers "across airports from North America to Asia." It seems like, one of Iceland's largest volcano, "Eyjafjallajokull volcano", which has been sleeping for "nearly 2 centuries"
is now awake and interruping human beings. By this volcano, it is now worst time from air travel companies. Haltation of flights already cost them "hundreds of millions of dollars." Lots of people related to this air traffic problem are now questioning "Europe's ability to respond coherently to a crisis." To answer the question, "Aviation authorities in Europe" has brought some solutions;split Europe's airspace into three zones by degree of how much ash affected. That is
area with "completely restricted", "partial flight restriction", and "flight could resume completely". Cities like Oslo, London, Berlin, Warsaw are now within gunshot. For instance, On April 20th, parts of flight headed to London returned because of "new cloud of volcano ash" Still, this disaster in Europe is no end in sight. It is obvious that commnucation between public and authorities are most important to solve this problem.

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