AP PHOTOS: Icelandic volcanic eruption a 'wonder of nature'

Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never stand still

FAGRADALSFJALL VOLCANO, Iceland -- Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never stand still. That's perhaps no clearer than in Iceland, where a volcano has awoken from a slumber that has lasted 6,000 years, give or take a year or two. The glow from the bubbling hot lava spewing out of the Fagradalsfjall volcano can be seen from the outskirts of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, 32 kilometers (20 miles) away. For others around the world, there's always the live feed. But this is the Reykjanes Peninsula’s first eruption of any volcano in around 800 years, and nothing quite matches the exhilaration of bearing witness to Planet Earth's raw power up close and personal. Fagradalsfjall itself is made up of the Icelandic words for “beautiful valley mountain.” Miguel Angel Morenatti, a Seville-based freelance photographer for The Associated Press, loves Iceland and brought forward his trip to the North Atlantic island nation when he heard of the eruption on March 19.