As we all know, a volcano eruption over Iceland last week and has disrupted trans-Atlantic air travel.
FORBES: Swedish Crime Fiction and the Trouble With Translation
The statement comes after years of hardship for Iceland, which suffered the collapse of its financial system in 2008 and a massive 2010 volcano eruption that shut down international travel in the region.
Also contributed earlier last year to help the earthquake victims in Japan and, in 2010, assisted tsunami victims in Indonesia, survivors of the Mayon Volcano eruption in the Philippines and flood victims in Pakistan.
In the end, of course, the real culprit is the volcano, the eruption of which forms the hardest sort of natural disaster to deal with, for neither its duration nor its ultimate magnitude can be predicted with certainty.
Solidum said that no alert was raised for the volcano following the latest eruption and no evacuation was being planned.
This sort of election-eve scandal is like a volcano on the brink of eruption.
Flights have been grounded across the UK and much of Europe since Thursday following the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull.
An eruption by the volcano in 1956 was "one of the three most significant volcanic events on the globe this century".
It is the first serious eruption of the volcano chain since 1960, when the area was hit by a massive earthquake.
In 1883, a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatoa in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra began.
Natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano in Iceland or the oil spill on the Gulf coast last year make us seriously consider the fragility of human strength against nature.
FORBES: Dmitry Medvedev's Davos Keynote: Complete Transcript
That temblor killed more than 5, 000 people and triggered fears of an eruption from a nearby volcano.
CNN: Hundreds still missing in aftermath of Indonesia quakes
The recent oil spill and eruption of the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull , would seem to provide evidence of a clear link rather than a debate.
FORBES: Economic Progress Versus Environmental Impact, Or Not?
The problem is being caused by a continuing eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in southern Iceland, which is pumping volcanic ash high into the atmosphere.
In 2008, the country declared a state of emergency at the site of the ancient Roman city buried by an eruption of the Vesuvius volcano in AD 79.
When the volcano last erupted in 1821, the eruption lasted on and off for two years, Gylfason said.
The massive eruption by the long dormant volcano two years earlier caused about half the population to leave the island.
We saw the results of that in May last year following the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
Some tools were sandwiched in ash from the eruption of the Toba super-volcano in Indonesia that geologists can date very accurately to 74, 000 years ago.
The scale of the volcano now is nothing like it was before the devastating eruption in 1980.
It allows scientists to study the fissures in the cone of the volcano -- if the fissures are getting hotter, it means an eruption is imminent.
If the eruption were to worsen again, there are several ways that the damage wrought by the volcano might be mitigated.
Mount Rainier is also an active volcano - although there has been no activity since the 1850s and geologists say there is no imminent threat of eruption.
应用推荐