The eruption of an Icelandic volcano called Eyjafjallajokull and the resultant dust cloud provides an example of how geological events can impact on people's lives, sometimes on a very large scale. Geological events like this can provide subject matter for various kinds of stories for cinema and fiction.
This video from abcnews.go.com features a helicopter fly-over of the site of the eruption, a map indicating the range of the cloud's spread over Europe, and a trip into the 'restricted zone' below the dust cloud.
Here is an article on reuters.com with background details on Eyjafjallajokull.
Below is time-lapse video of the dust cloud coming out of the volcano:
The following video features closer views of the erupting volcano:
Below is a video of a person interacting with the still glowing crust of the lava:
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