Eruption Eyjafjallajokull
- Created by: amtani20
- Created on: 17-05-18 19:46
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- Eyjafallajokull
- Effects
- Primary
- Heavy ash coated agriculture
- Fine ash spread over Europe 14th to 21 April
- 800 local evacuated
- Ash poisoned livestock
- Secondary
- Melt glacier
- Embankment breached to allow floodwater
- Roads washed away
- 100,000 flights cancelled £80m loss
- Lack of raw materials and fresh food = job cuts + lower wages
- More tourism and fertile soil
- Melt glacier
- Primary
- Response
- Immediate
- Evacuation
- People told to stay indoors to avoid ash in air
- Long term
- Better scientific assessment to see effects on engine
- Immediate
- Facts
- April 2010
- Along Mid Atlantic ridge Iceland
- Erupting since March
- Effects
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