Eyjafjallajökull
Evacuations
About 500 farmers and their families from the areas of , Eyjafjöll, and Landeyjar were evacuated overnight (including a group of 30 schoolchildren and their 3 teachers from in England), and flights to and from and were postponed, but on the evening of 21 March, domestic and international air traffic was allowed again Inhabitants of the risk zone of Fljótshlíð, Eyjafjöll, and Landeyjar area were allowed to return to their farms and homes after an evening meeting with the on 22 March and the plan was temporarily dismissed. Instead, the police closed the road to , and the four-wheel-drive trail from village to the Fimmvörðuháls mountain pass, but these roads and trails were reopened on 29 March, though only for suitable four-wheel drives. When the second fissure appeared, the road was closed again because of the danger of , which could have developed if the fissure had opened near big ice caps or other snow reservoirs, but the road was again opened at around noon on 1 April. (1,800 °F) up to 150 metres (490 ft) into the air. The lava is alkali olivine and is relatively causing the motion of the lava stream to the west and east of the fissure to be slow. The molten lava has flowed more than 4,000 metres (2.5 mi) to the north-east of the fissure and into Hrunagil , forming a lava fall more than 200 metres (660 ft) long and is slowly approaching , but has not yet reached the of .
