Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Cam Now Available

There is now a live video feed of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. It comes in two flavors: regular (visible) and infrared, so you can see a thermal version of the feed as well.

It’s not an embeddable feed, so here’s the link.  I’ve been watching it for awhile, and so far, there have always been people visible in the field of view, too. Scroll down on the page, and there’s also a map that shows the location of the camera relative to the volcano.

Eyjafjallajökull on May 12, 2010. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

Above is the latest satellite imagery of Eyjafjallajökull, taken on May 12, 2010, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. It shows the plume reaching a height of 4 to 5 kilometers (13,000-17,000 feet), even going above the clouds. The plume has switched directions from the May 10th image, where the plume was blowing south and southest; now it is blowing more easterly.

According to the Iceland Meteorological Office and the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland, the eruption had changed little from previous days and showed no signs of stopping.