The Iceland Volcano Thread

waterways · 07-03-2021 1:35pm

Yesterday I thought the swarm has calmed a bit but last night the people of Grindavík (southwest of the area) got scared by a string of stronger earthquakes of 4 and higher, one reached 5.0. What we know so far is that scientists believe that it was caused by the magma channel that has already been formed between Fagradalsfjall and Keilir and is pushing between them in the crust and increases the tension on the crust elsewhere, also west of Fagradalsfjall all the way to Grindavík.

waterways · 10-03-2021 8:28am

After a few more calm days there were again some more earthquakes > 3 up to 5.1 overnight.
Scientists said yesterday evening that the magma chamber is 7 km long 1m wide and has expanded 2-3 km to the south, where the hotter part now is just 1 km below the surface. At the bottom of the magma chamber, at a depth of about five kilometers, there is a channel and from there flows about 15 to 20 cubic meters per second upwards. "Small earthquakes, a small pulse of unrest and there could be an eruption almost at very short notice, I think, "says Freysteinn, geophysicist at the University of Iceland Institute of Earth Sciences. https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/09/getur-gosid-an-fyrirboda

speckle · 12-03-2021 7:39pm

just saw below earthquake 3.3 on the live cams in the second link...camera shaking..watched then went and checked incase the tired eyes were playing tricks.. amazing scenery..shame I was on mobile i couldnt post quicker but it was kind of mesmerizing watching in real time

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6153896/mag3quake-Mar-12-2021-ICELAND-REGION.html

Two live cams link

https://grapevine.is/news/2021/03/12/seismic-roundup-livestreams-of-possible-eruption-site-quakes-over-3-0-magnitude-continue/?steady_tried_to_set_safari_fix_cookie=true

je551e · 19-03-2021 10:57pm

“Eruption confirmed at Fagradalsfjall mountain”

Per Iceland Geology Blog on Facebook

Ficheall · 19-03-2021 11:34pm

Livestream in approximate area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_9z9-ndZnA

waterways · 20-03-2021 10:48am

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/20/myndskeid-gaeslunnar-af-eldgosinu?itm_source=parsely-api

waterways · 20-03-2021 11:28am

They have just brought the webcam to the eruption area.
https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/20/beint-vefstreymi-fra-borgarfjalli-ad-eldstodvunum?term=vefmyndav%C3%A9l&rtype=news&slot=1

pad199207 · 20-03-2021 11:40am

waterways wrote: »

They have just brought the webcam to the eruption area.
https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/20/beint-vefstreymi-fra-borgarfjalli-ad-eldstodvunum?term=vefmyndav%C3%A9l&rtype=news&slot=1

What a view!

waterways · 20-03-2021 12:17pm

pad199207 wrote: »

What a view!

I agree! I find it calming to watch the so far soft eruption.
Saw an airplane flying directly above the magma current several times.
It is somewhat peaceful but toxic gas could be brought with the southwesterly wind close to Reykjavik.

Water John · 20-03-2021 2:23pm

Are these helicoptors scientific or tourism related?

cnocbui · 20-03-2021 2:30pm

pad199207 wrote: »

What a view!

If you fullscreen it, you can see people on the right side of the flow getting very close to it. They should have a good think about what recently happened to the cruise ship passengers in New Zealand.

waterways · 20-03-2021 2:33pm

Water John wrote: »

Are these helicoptors scientific or tourism related?

Zero tourism allowed. Civil Defense is controlling the area. The scientists try to take samples from the lava to evaluate where the magma enters the magma chamber. Technicians and geoscientists are also measuring near the eruption.

pad199207 · 20-03-2021 7:44pm

Has the fissure become a little more active?

PokeHerKing · 20-03-2021 8:11pm

Yeah looking noticeably more active. Although it's getting darker as well which could be adding to the effect. Fair few hams on that hill alright, exillerating no doubt but fairly stupid overall youd have to think.

Meteorite58 · 20-03-2021 8:11pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Has the fissure become a little more active?

Looks more active then when I saw it this morning, seems to be spewing out magma with more force .Getting darker though too so glow off the magma standing out more. The scientists nearby not too perturbed by it and felt safe enough to land a helicopter and turn off the engine :pac:

mickger844posts · 20-03-2021 10:36pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Looks more active then when I saw it this morning, seems to be spewing out magma with more force .Getting darker though too so glow off the magma standing out more. The scientists nearby not too perturbed by it and felt safe enough to land a helicopter and turn off the engine :pac:

Defintely more active now than when i was watching earlier. Quiet spectacular to watch it spew higher and higher.

Dillonb3 · 20-03-2021 10:39pm

Geologyhub on youtube has just put up a video on this eruption. I Highly recommend his channel as he puts up videos on volcanoes around the world

g0g · 20-03-2021 10:41pm

Check out lightning top left of previous webcam right now!

cnocbui · 20-03-2021 10:41pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Looks more active then when I saw it this morning, seems to be spewing out magma with more force .Getting darker though too so glow off the magma standing out more. The scientists nearby not too perturbed by it and felt safe enough to land a helicopter and turn off the engine :pac:

What could possibly go wrong?

Say my name · 20-03-2021 11:15pm

waterways wrote: »

Zero tourism allowed. Civil Defense is controlling the area. The scientists try to take samples from the lava to evaluate where the magma enters the magma chamber. Technicians and geoscientists are also measuring near the eruption.

There seems to be lots of tourists there atm. Plenty of people walking by the camera and plenty of lights on the mountain on the far side of eruption.
Maybe the civil defense have gone to the leaba?

quodec · 21-03-2021 1:20am

Pretty active now with a couple of smaller side fissure also spewing magma. That livecam is mesmeric viewing!

expectationlost · 21-03-2021 1:48am

Skyhunter wrote: »

Some nice footage here.

https://www.visir.is/k/79cdb585-dcc1-4301-bdf5-eba5f061f289-1616270081483

why are all those people there?

Gaoth Laidir · 21-03-2021 1:48am

Skyhunter wrote: »

Some nice footage here.

https://www.visir.is/k/79cdb585-dcc1-4301-bdf5-eba5f061f289-1616270081483

Wow!

waterways · 21-03-2021 10:12am

Say my name wrote: »

There seems to be lots of tourists there atm. Plenty of people walking by the camera and plenty of lights on the mountain on the far side of eruption.
Maybe the civil defense have gone to the leaba?

It is a pretty little tourist eruption but not really safe to have a night walk there.

Police said last night they counted 300 cars parked along the streets and its a long night walk but hey with that magical disco ball?

silver2020 · 21-03-2021 10:27am

waterways wrote: »

It is a pretty little tourist eruption but not really safe to have a night walk there.
Police said last night they counted 300 cars parked along the streets and its a long night walk but hey with that magical disco ball?

so a bit like the Dublin Mountains when an inch of snow falls and everyone head up?

Gamergurll · 21-03-2021 10:32am

Maybe I've watched too many disaster movies and they've made me stupid ðŸ˜‚ those people just casually standing around by the crater and lava is shooting over their heads.. They don't seem too bothered?

Skyhunter wrote: »

Some nice footage here.

https://www.visir.is/k/79cdb585-dcc1-4301-bdf5-eba5f061f289-1616270081483

Wine Goddess · 21-03-2021 11:27am

Gamergurll wrote: »

Maybe I've watched too many disaster movies and they've made me stupid ðŸ˜‚ those people just casually standing around by the crater and lava is shooting over their heads.. They don't seem too bothered?

Yeah!!! Astonishing! Great footage though!

Pherekydes · 21-03-2021 11:50am

No choppers landing today! At least not in the foreground.

cnocbui · 21-03-2021 11:54am

Gamergurll wrote: »

Maybe I've watched too many disaster movies and they've made me stupid &#55357;&#56834; those people just casually standing around by the crater and lava is shooting over their heads.. They don't seem too bothered?

A lot of that footage was shot with a long focal length lens which tends to foreshorten distances, so waht appears to be over their heads is severl hundred metres behind them. The drone/chopper footage shows it better.

waterways · 21-03-2021 6:22pm

People were asked to move to the hillsides this morning, luckily before part of the crater gave way for a new lava flow

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/gigbarmurinn-gefur-sig-og-ny-hraunrennslisaed-myndast

Many people are close to the magma this evening. The wind is easing. It is a closed valley and there is a lot gas. Would like to see people going a bit more up the hill.

Meteorite58 · 21-03-2021 8:48pm

360° View from earlier

https://www.iceland360vr.com/panorama/geldingadalur-volcano/?src=hp

Explains some of the people near the magma flow yesterday.

https://twitter.com/lethbridge_e/status/1373303752816463873?s=20

https://twitter.com/jessphoenix2018/status/1373373872662188033?s=20

Say my name · 21-03-2021 8:50pm

waterways wrote: »

People were asked to move to the hillsides this morning, luckily before part of the crater gave way for a new lava flow

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/gigbarmurinn-gefur-sig-og-ny-hraunrennslisaed-myndast

Many people are close to the magma this evening. The wind is easing. It is a closed valley and there is a lot gas. Would like to see people going a bit more up the hill.

I see on that same news site. Someone pitched a tent beside the crater site for the night.
And the president of Iceland flew in to view the eruption on a coastguard helicopter this morning and have a bit of a walk around.
Then all the cars parked on the roads in the areas not blocked by the civil defence and hiking for hours through the night to get to the site.

As posted above lava to Icelanders must be what snow is to the Irish. Mad stuff altogether.
There's no warning not to do it from the government just a warning for people to be careful and dress appropriately.

cnocbui · 21-03-2021 9:49pm

A refreshing lack of nanny stateism. Whereas here, public servants assume the mantle of having greater intelligence and better educations and reasoning powers than the general populace.

21-03-2021 9:57pm

cnocbui wrote: »

A refreshing lack of nanny stateism. Whereas here, public servants assume the mantle of having greater intelligence and better educations and reasoning powers than the general populace.

Well at least their facemasks will actually be doing something for once.

Scrabbel · 21-03-2021 10:34pm

Skyhunter wrote: »

Some nice footage here.

https://www.visir.is/k/79cdb585-dcc1-4301-bdf5-eba5f061f289-1616270081483

Wow, that's great footage! This isn't as dramatic but it's a local journalist speaking from the scene in English on Saturday - interesting too. Right up close at 6 minutes.
https://youtu.be/f3BD8vqYTho

speckle · 22-03-2021 12:39am

Time lapses brillant..this guy has more of them on his channel
https://m.youtube.com/user/DugizJihlavy/videos

Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGI17MgvnXI

Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2fLiikNm9M

Gamergurll · 22-03-2021 12:51am

cnocbui wrote: »

A lot of that footage was shot with a long focal length lens which tends to foreshorten distances, so waht appears to be over their heads is severl hundred metres behind them. The drone/chopper footage shows it better.

Thanks that was helpful, I was trying to figure out if standing near it isn't as scary as the movies make out but that makes no sense lol, it's an erupting volcano! I got a surprise when I found out a person won't just melt in the lava ðŸ˜‚

Anyway.. The views from the webcam are amazing, I would love to see it in person.. How long would it normally erupt for or can they predict it?

speckle · 22-03-2021 1:09am

Geologist from previous video posted said months maybe even 6 or more.

Mo sheacht mbeannacht oraibh... to the folks in Isolfsskali... may it miss where you live, when/if the lava eventually arrives nearby.

NIMAN · 22-03-2021 1:13am

My dad visited Iceland in 1974 I think, not long after the last major eruptions, brought back loads of bits of hardened lava.

Wanderer78 · 22-03-2021 8:48am

Gamergurll wrote:

Thanks that was helpful, I was trying to figure out if standing near it isn't as scary as the movies make out but that makes no sense lol, it's an erupting volcano! I got a surprise when I found out a person won't just melt in the lava Ã°Å¸Ëœâ€š

Ah you couldn't stand too close to them without heat proof protection, I was standing next to a small trickle of lava before, the heat was unnatural, boots were actually starting to melt, due to the heat of the ground, as there was active lava tubes under us, amazing experience though. If lava was passing over your head, you d be dead, no way you could get that close, lava bombs were getting close to me before though, on another volcano, dangerous stuff, if one of them hit you, that's it

lawred2 · 22-03-2021 8:52am

Can't believe this was 11 years ago

Gamergurll · 22-03-2021 9:25am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Ah you couldn't stand too close to them without heat proof protection, I was standing next to a small trickle of lava before, the heat was unnatural, boots were actually starting to melt, due to the heat of the ground, as there was active lava tubes under us, amazing experience though. If lava was passing over your head, you d be dead, no way you could get that close, lava bombs were getting close to me before though, on another volcano, dangerous stuff, if one of them hit you, that's it

That's why I was scratching my head lol, tourists can do crazy sh*t for photos but not that crazy lol! That must have been an awesome experience, scary though

It's really after spewing overnight, a lot of where the people were standing is gone and everywhere is white Ash

Pherekydes · 22-03-2021 9:27am

Gamergurll wrote: »

That's why I was scratching my head lol, tourists can do crazy sh*t for photos but not that crazy lol! That must have been an awesome experience, scary though

It's really after spewing overnight, a lot of where the people were standing is gone and everywhere is white Ash

It was snowing heavily earlier on.

Wanderer78 · 22-03-2021 9:33am

Gamergurll wrote:

That's why I was scratching my head lol, tourists can do crazy sh*t for photos but not that crazy lol! That must have been an awesome experience, scary though

People certainly are pushing boundaries in dangerous situations, in order to get the shot, I was with a couple of pro photographers years ago on another volcano, we were extremely close to pyroclastic flows, a change in conditions, and we would have been well cooked. yea they were amazing experiences, I'd highly recommend it, some great tour companies and people our there, that will get you close to the action, even though I have done it alone, I would recommend going with someone that knows the area, a tour guide did pull me away from an eruption one evening, bombs were just too close for comfort

Wanderer78 · 22-03-2021 11:02am

surely ta god the drone must have been destroyed after this one

https://twitter.com/i/status/1373787472493170695

22-03-2021 11:18am

Whoever was controlling that was clearly willing to sacrifice it for the final shots.

cnocbui · 22-03-2021 2:58pm

Gamergurll wrote: »

Thanks that was helpful, I was trying to figure out if standing near it isn't as scary as the movies make out but that makes no sense lol, it's an erupting volcano! I got a surprise when I found out a person won't just melt in the lava ��

Anyway.. The views from the webcam are amazing, I would love to see it in person.. How long would it normally erupt for or can they predict it?

At least one geologist in Iceland thinks this could be the start of a 200 year period of activity in that they believe there is a historical record of such on-off cycling stretching back in time.

cnocbui · 22-03-2021 3:00pm

Wanderer78 wrote: »

surely ta god the drone must have been destroyed after this one

https://twitter.com/i/status/1373787472493170695

Link's dead.

Wanderer78 · 22-03-2021 4:12pm

cnocbui wrote: »

Link's dead.

loads of them popping up on youtube now

RebelButtMunch · 22-03-2021 5:53pm

live feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46nVKTdpBc

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