PHOTO OF THE DAY July 7, 2004  

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Where Heimaey island, Iceland
When 1973
Photographer Emory Kristof

Lava creeps over a house in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland's most important fishing port, forcing evacuation of its inhabitants as well as 5,000 others during Iceland's 14th volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "An Icelandic Village Fights for Its Life," July 1973, National Geographic magazine)


Volcanoes—Nature's Fury
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