Another Icelandic volcano blots out the sky
Last Saturday , the Icelandic vent Grimsvotn stirred from its slumber and shot out a 7 - miles feather of gas and ash . A massive aerodrome shutdown should n’t happen this time around , but the view from the undercoat is certainly dramatic . This was the largest eruption in 100 years for Grimsvotn , which sits 120 mile from Reykjavik and under the Vatnajokull glacier . The last sentence it erupted was 2004 , and this weekend its fall ash offered zero profile for those on the ground ....