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Date : 2010

Hazards: Jokulhlaup, magma and water mixed creating a plume(tephra), lava

Social effects: People has to wear goggles and masks as the ash was too thick, 500 farmers and family had to be evacuated, roads were shit down and water supplies were contaminated.

Economic effects: Covered large areas of Europe (volcanic ash), flights cancelled, tourists and people stranded

Environmental effects: Ash dissolves iron which lead to a plankton boom in the nroth Atlantic, mass grounding of Flights preventing co2 from being released, set of major floods(due to glacial melting)

The airlines lost £130 million per day

VEI Rating: four (4)

2.8 tonnes of CO2 prevented from being released into atmosphere

Lava spewed as high as 150 m

700 people had to evacuate due to floods