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Ash from Eyjafjallajökull piling up on a roof at Seljavellir. Image courtesy of the IMO, by Ari Tryggvason.
The latest from Eyjafjallajökull has the volcano continuing to puff away - producing intermittent airspace closures over Europe. The Icelandic Met Office reports a ~7 km (21,000 foot) ash plume, but they note that the explosivity of the eruption seems to have waned some since a maximum on May 13. Right now, the IMO estimates the eruption rate at ~200 tonnes/second. Lets put that in a little perspective - a Ford F-150 pickup weighs about 2 tonnes, so the volcano is eruption the equivalent of 100 full size pickups a second. That is a lot of material! Overall, the explosive part of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption has produced ~0.25 km^3 of material. You can see some of it piling up on homes near the volcano in Iceland (see above). The ...
