hazards from volcanic eruptions are pyroclastic at speeds like a jetliner. man: [speaking spanish] jess phoenix: it will obliterate trees. it will take out people. it can even reshape the geology of the area. nobody can outrun a pyroclastic flow. if you are faced with one, you are dead. welcome to violent earth. i m liev schreiber. more than 80% of the earth s surface was forged by volcanoes. they helped create fertile soil for agriculture, and volcanic gases helped form our atmosphere. without volcanoes, we would not have life on earth as we know it. all around the world, every single day, there are 40 to 50 volcanoes erupting under sea, on land, sometimes even under ice. our earth is a living, changing planet. but when a volcano erupts, it also has the power to destroy, like it did in 2018 at mount fuego in guatemala, when a massive eruption buried the surrounding towns in over 6 feet of volcanic ash in a matter of minutes. [music playing] george kourounis: mount fuego in g
major hazards? from volcanic eruptions are pyroclastic flows the rock fragments, and gases are moving at speeds like a jetliner it will it can even reshape the geology of the area. nobody can outrun a pyroclastic flow. if you are faced with one, you are dead. welcome to violent earth. i m liev schreiber. more than 80% of the earth s surface was forged by volcanoes. they helped create fertile soil for agriculture, and volcanic gases helped form our atmosphere. without volcanoes, we would not have life on earth as we know it. all around the world, every single day, there are 40 to 50 volcanoes erupting under sea, on land, sometimes even under ice. our earth is a living, changing planet. but when a volcano erupts, it also has the power to destroy, like it did in 2018 at mount fuego in guatemala, when a massive eruption buried the surrounding towns in over 6 feet of volcanic ash in a matter of minutes. [music playing] george kourounis: mount fuego in guatemala is your stereotyp
i think it could last a long time. this is a significant event for europe and plane travel. you cannot fly a jet plane through ash. i know it looks all compacted and you could fly around it. as it gets more diffuse, away from the volcano itself, there s ash in the sky and you can t see it. ash melts in the jet plane itself. in the engine, it melts and becomes like lava glass. you don t want that in your jet plane because in the jet itself, it will stop running and the plane will fall out of the sky. it s not like we are cautioning you not to fly. air space is closed. london heathrow, gatwick. they are all closed because of ash coming down from this. i m going to draw a line and show you where it s coming from. there s the volcano. the ash should trail off to sweden and norway.
people reported there were sonic booms going on as well as it came through the atmosphere. how often does it happen? we go through it every year. they are rarely anything like that. most of the time we see small showers. this was an explosion. what s going on in iceland. there s a huge eruption. flights to europe are stopped. how long could it last? it could last a long time. this is a significant event for europe and plane travel. you cannot fly a jet plane through ash. i know it looks all compacted and you could fly around it. as it gets more diffuse, away from the volcano itself, there s ash in the sky and you can t see it. ash melts in the jet plane itself. it melts and becomes like lava glass. you don t want that in your jet plane because in the jet itself,
how often does it happen? we go through it every year. they are rarely anything like that. most of the time we see small showers. this was an explosion. what s going on in iceland. there s a huge eruption. flights to europe are stopped. how long could it last? it could last a long time. this is a significant event for europe and plane travel. you cannot fly a jet plane through ash. i know it looks all compacted and you could fly around it. as it gets more diffuse, away from the volcano itself, there s ash in the sky and you can t see it. ash melts in the jet plane itself. it melts and becomes like lava glass. you don t want that in your jet plane because in the jet itself, it will stop running and the plane will fall out of the sky. it s not like we are cationing you not to fly. air space is closed. london, heathrow, gat wick. they are all closed because of