Iceland Eruption

[Awhituobs]

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/19/worl ... index.html

[Cyclone Tracy]

[tgsnoopy]

Jump to about 2 min 50 secs

[Awhituobs]

A new Volcano in Auckland could be just like this one?

[tgsnoopy]

A new Volcano in Auckland could be just like this one?

That's the impression I had, could be very wrong though.

[tgsnoopy]

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/22/sja ... olarhring?

[David]

[David]

Another good one

[Awhituobs]

woa, the people re very close it looks? (or it just looks that way because of the zoom )
i guess they are enjoying the heat coming off it anyway?

[David]

Some really high quality night time footage here

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Re the above. It's a shame they put music to it. I would rather listen to the sound of the hot lava slurping down also the hissing of the lava when rain is falling on it. Fantastic footage though.
Interesting too with this volcano, not putting out plumes of smoke what did Mt. Eyjafjalljokull did in 2010, which caused air disruption in the Northern Hemisphere. I like the name of these Icelandic name places which the media have trouble trying to pronounce them, especially the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in 2010. How is Fagradalsfjall pronounced?

[Orion]

^ How is Fagradalsfjall pronounced?

[Orion]

Iceland volcano: Drone footage captures stunning up-close view of eruption (3:16)

[Awhituobs]

growing in height nicely

[tgsnoopy]

[Cyclone Tracy]

The famous webcam succumb to the lava flow overnight.

[tgsnoopy]

When you sacrifice your drone for the shot...

[Awhituobs]

looks like a tried to fly it higher at the last second?
is it some plastic around the camera lens?

[Orion]

If I could see this from my windows I'd at least be sitting on a packed suitcase with the car-keys in my hand:

[tgsnoopy]

If I could see this from my windows I'd at least be sitting on a packed suitcase with the car-keys in my hand

Nah! That's a sitting up the road watching in the rear view mirror, with your bag already in the back, so you don't get gridlocked in kind of event in my eyes! Imagine the kind of pent up pressure in the magma to make it shoot that high, hard to imagine there isn't another fault around the place it might break through.

Some pretty trick schemes in place to manage the lava flow.

[Razor]

Thought I'd reactivate this thread as Iceland has clearly reactivated too
At present the town of Grindavik, 40km from the capital,has been evacuated due to damaging seismicity led by magma dyke intrusion currently within 100m of the surface. Fascinating analysis going on at the Iceland Met Office- see link:

https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/a-se ... last-night

Interesting few days / weeks ahead with eruptive activity seemingly imminent in a line between the blue Pools and Power station through to the cost just off Grundavik.

Hope it goes as well as possible for the inhabitants and its not too catastrophic for the town, which is already badly damaged from the earthquakes and ground deformation

[Razor]

The Grindavik eruption has begun
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news ... s_started/