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Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
- m3at 6y agoStrikingly beautiful! It's hard to get a sense of the scale of the scene, anyone happen to know how far away the webcam is from the peak?
- Tepix 6y agoI see a few rocks in the foreground and a lot of fog. Fagradalsfjall is nowhere in sight as of 08:34 UTC. Edit: Now 20 minutes later the white smoke is gone. Stunning!
- input_sh 6y agoAshes and sunlight are obstructing the current view, if you go a little back in the stream, you'll see what's happening.
- granra 6y agoNot too far I think. This eruption is apparently competing with one other eruption on being the smallest eruption on record in Iceland. Source: am Icelandic and read it on the news.
- asgeir 6y agoLooks to be about half a kilometer. The webcam looks to be at about 63.89045405043735, -22.279054215941507 and the main crater is at about 63.88921695342744, -22.269097856211175 The main crater is only a few tens of meters tall.
- jstanley 6y agoAbout?! The 14th decimal place of latitude is worth ~0.15mm!
- adwn 6y agoAlthough that might have been tongue-in-cheek, the word "about" could refer to the accuracy of the position, not its precision. Precision != accuracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
- elcomet 6y agoBut the number of digits should reflect the precision.
- unhammer 6y agoWhen pointing at a map, the thickness of your digits should reflect precision.
- airhead969 6y agoHow accurate are your digits?
- airhead969 6y agoYes. If it's only 5 digits, it should be cut-off to reflect that. Accuracy needs an error estimate.
- Moru 6y agoIt's hard if you don't know the precision needed to get to the position you want, easier to just copy/paste and be done with it. How many knows how far 0.001 deg is at a specific location on the globe?
- asgeir 6y agoI find it hard to estimate the position from the top-down view compared to when I was there, and I just copy-pasted the coordinates from Google Maps
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- hr2016 6y agoThe camera is located on Fagradalsfjall and the eruption is in Geldingadalir. The exact location of the camera I do not know, but its somewhere in the ~1km range.
- Tepix 6y agoFagradalsfjall is only 385m high.
- lysp 6y agoA photographer took a FPV drone video (literally) over the top. The shot is amazing: https://www.facebook.com/steinbekk/posts/10224917280624476 https://www.facebook.com/steinbekk/posts/10224917280624476
- scrdhrt 6y agoI wonder how the drone looked afterwards
- willis936 6y agoHave you ever burnt a resistor? It likely looks like a 10 pound burned resistor.
- Zealotux 6y agoWoah, it looks like a 3D render, surreal.
- dageshi 6y agoHe really went for it didn't he? A bit lower and it'd be toast
- jcims 6y agoThat and he flew through a shower of molten rock, the smallest little blob would take that drone out. Some things are with the risk though, turned out amazing!
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- hnick 6y agoIt's all just white to me when I click the video. Not sure if damaged or a bright light is shining at it? Fog maybe? Edit: nvm it was clouds or fog, moving now!
- MauranKilom 6y agoJust fog. Clicking around on the timeline (5h+ by now) allows you to see the various stages.
- vigneshk 6y agoIt works for me now!
- royjacobs 6y agoThis reminds me of the trip I took to Iceland in 2010. Just on the day we were about to fly back home we were instructed to turn on the Hotel TV, which was showing very eerie video footage of Eyjafjallajökull erupting. The stark emergency chyron combined with the vague video footage gave us a very unsettled feeling. Then we walked into the lobby where some 80s pop was playing, the staff was cheery and asked what we'd like to have for breakfast because we'd probably fly home a few hours delayed. I guess you become unflappable when you literally live on top of volcanoes :) On the Iceland Air flight home we watched a very interesting documentary about the Eldfell eruptions in 1973. It's really fascinating, although I can't seem to find a link to the docu. See also: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/01/the-eldfell-eruption-of-1973/514394/ https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/01/the-eldfell-erupti...
- mrunseen 6y agoNon-paywall version: https://archive.is/ALqHs https://archive.is/ALqHs
- hugi 6y agoI went for a hike there on Saturday night, here are a few of the shots I got: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFBYeKa30w&list=PLoqbqfn2kulYtxzhHlwKNk4V85R-gxf1q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFBYeKa30w&list=PLoqbqfn2ku... Unfortunately, photos and movies don't capture the atmosphere and sheer scale of the thing. What might look like some rocks rolling from the crater is cose to building-sized. Still, it's defined as a small eruption. Edit: iCloud rate-limited the playlist I originally posted, so changed to YouTube playlist. Original link: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0OG6XBubGEA3MC https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0OG6XBubGEA3MC
- srich36 6y agoAwesome videos! Is it not dangerous to get that close? I got apprehensive just watching that
- hugi 6y agoWhen I got back from the hike I heard on the radio that this location was, ahem, not recommended. It was closed off yesterday and a short while later the crater walls collapsed in that direction. https://youtu.be/eeAf1kZ7_ZE https://youtu.be/eeAf1kZ7_ZE But there were a few of us at that spot at the time so at least I wouldn't have died alone :).
- ragebol 6y agoA bit on the macabre side (but your comments makes me believe you don't mind too much perhaps): what would happen if you'd fall or otherwise get trapped in lava? Gollum melted I think but that seems unlikely (it's a movie after all). Left for future archeologists like in Pompeii? Please don't test on purpose or accident this btw.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agoit's 1200°C so you burn already before your body even hits the lava. During the Pompeji eruption people got killed by the hot ash (arriving first and travels further) which cooked them alive: > The individuals in the boat houses died relatively quickly: The volcanic ash blocked the entrance to each structure, and the temperature of the air within probably rose to about 400°C—even hotter than a wood-fired oven. -- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/studies-reveal-gruesome-last-moments-pompeii-volcano-s-victims https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/studies-reveal-grues...
- asgeir 6y agoAnd if you want to see the definition of terror, look at the second video on this page when part of the main crater collapsed https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/hraunrennsli-dagsins-a-orskotsstundu https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/hraunrennsli-dagsins-a-o...
- adflux 6y agoWhat in the name of god are these tourists(?) doing there !?
- 4gotunameagain 6y agoIt's not that dangerous in real time (lava is slooow), especially if you have hills like they do close by to go up on.
- asgeir 6y agoThis is from the webcam at the time. https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/gigbarmurinn-gefur-sig-og-ny-hraunrennslisaed-myndast https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/gigbarmurinn-gefur-sig-o...
- ngngngng 6y agoThere have been incidents in Hawaii where people successfully used a garden hose to protect their home from oncoming lava flow.
- schoen 6y agoAlso in Iceland with fire hoses (against a considerably larger amount of lava): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature (This book is amazing -- highly recommended!)
- dopeboy 6y agoIsn't there a chance a projectile of lava could land on them?
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoI would love to visit Iceland this late Spring, it would be my second visit after my first one in 2008. I am wondering if anyone knows what the covid-related restrictions are. I would go there primarily to hike, and secondarily to try to meet interesting startups.
- kd5bjo 6y agohttps://www.covid.is/sub-categories/visiting-iceland https://www.covid.is/sub-categories/visiting-iceland
- StavrosK 6y agoSo 12 days of quarantine? Sounds expensive.
- meheleventyone 6y agoIt’s only 5-6 days of quarantine as the first test is taken when you arrive.
- StavrosK 6y agoOh, that's better... Still probably prohibitive for a lot of people, I wonder if you can skip that if you're vaccinated (or perhaps will be able to by September).
- meheleventyone 6y agoYes in May they are looking to open up more to people outside of Schengen with vaccination certificates. My parents are British, vaccinated and looking forward to coming over to visit as we've not seen them since Christmas.
- StavrosK 6y agoThat'd be fantastic, I've been itching to go back to Iceland for years now! Assuming I manage to get vaccinated, that is...
- Hard_Space 6y agoThis brings back memories of the 2003 era Etna eruptions, when I was living in southern Italy. After the regular programming stopped, the RAI channels would just run a live feed of the volcano spewing lava at night, all night long. It was a hell of a screen saver!
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agopretty cool how helpless we are when it comes to predicting anything that goes on within: > RÚV engineers worked through the night to revive the previously-popular earthquake monitoring webcam and to re-orientate it towards the volcano. It was previously located on Borgarfjall when scientists believed an eruption was most likelt at Nátthagi.
- joncrane 6y agoI love the juxtaposition of the blowing snow with the superhot lava. Something about the union of extremes.
- voisin 6y agoDrone footage on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/mahr6j/fpv_drone_footage_at_the_volcanic_eruption_in/ https://reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/mahr6j/fpv_drone_foot...
- mlindner 6y agoMuch better footage of the original with higher framerate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOblgAvrHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOblgAvrHw
- nanna 6y agoIt's almost as if the Icelandic Tourism board turned to the Ásatrúarfélagið for help bringing tourism back. 'Guðmundur, everyone's dreaming of flying towards the equator when they're allowed, not towards us in the Artic circle. What can we do?' 'WE SHALL SUMMON SURTR'!
- runarberg 6y agoThere was a huge debate some time ago about Christianity vs. Ásatrú on Alþingi (the Icelandic general assembly). During this debate news broke that an eruption had started in Svínahraun—a few dozen km east of the current Geldingadalur eruption. Allegedly some proponents of Ásatrú suggested that the eruption was the fault of the gods not liking the fact that this debate was happening. However this argument was quickly dismissed as the debate was already happening on top of an ancient lava field and the debaters couldn’t fathom what must have angered the gods that caused it to erupt in the ancient times. See Kristni Saga (chapter 11)
- nanna 6y agoWhen the Kárahnjúkar dam was being built the Ásatrú would visit the construction site and curse it, so Landsvirkjun (Iceland's power company) would send priests down to sprinkle holy water over it, to which the Ásatrú responded by cursing it, and the priests again sent in... this went on round and round. The Ásatrú were broadly against the project. Arguably this had some effect. When a prominent anti-dam farmer from near Egilsstaðir was excavating his land to build an extension to his house, strange things kept on happening: His cows treading on their udders, workers falling into the pit and breaking bones. His wife claimed to see two figures when each time one of these happenings occured. An old man and a young. Finally in the pit they came across the central beam of an ancient house, and a magnificent circle made of a spherical stone made of spheres containing crystals - you found individual spheres - I know this is the wrong term sorry - scattered around their farmland. Anyway upon finding these the farmer called to the ghosts and promised that the stone would be taken to the museum in Egilsstaðir and the beam would be featured prominantly in their new farmhouse, in exchange for the ghosts leaving them in peace and haunting Kárahnjúkar instead. It was then in the process of its initial flood. Soon after very strange things occured at Kárahnjúkar. Workers were injured, serious technical problems manifested. If there's anywhere in the world where making pacts with supernatural forces is possible, it's Iceland.
- tamaharbor 6y agoLearning grade school science (50 years ago) would have been so much easier if they just showed me these videos. Amazing!
- sizzzzlerz 6y agoGreat video but its amusing to see so many people up close and personal with the erupting lava. Here in the US, our National Park Service closed the entire area surrounding the crater at Kilauea when it started erupting last year. Unless you were a volcanologist, you aren't able to get within several miles of it.
- MrDresden 6y agoHaving the police close off the whole area around the eruption is simply not feasible. The view here in Iceland is more that people should heed the advice given, and use good judgement if they decide to go see the eruption anyway. Certain areas are closed off though, and the police and SaR teams will interact with those who go there.
- orobinson 6y agoIceland seems to have a very relaxed approach to health and safety. I visited in 2006 and remember walking around boiling pools of mud on very slippery ground with nothing but a single token piece of rope to prevent tourists from slipping and falling to a slow and painful death.
- MrDresden 6y agoSince the meteoric rise in tourism post financial crisis, more funds have been put into upgrading many of the tourist areas with propper walking paths and cordoning off certain areas. This has mostly been done to preserve the areas from undue damage from humans, but also for their increased safety. Our view of health and safety is still vastly different from the US for example. It does help that liability for your own personal health most often lies on your own shoulders instead of somebody else's.
- chrisco255 6y agoIceland must be less litigious and have less lawyers per capita.
- Moru 6y ago
- bondolo 6y agoGo back in the live stream a few hours and then watch a timelapse by hitting the "forward 15 seconds" button. There is more motion happening than is obvious watching the real time video.
- baxtr 6y agoIs it just my feeling fueled by the news or is there currently an increased / above normal levels volcano activity around the globe?
- pimlottc 6y agoYes, Mount Etna (Italy) and Kīlueaua (Hawaii) are also both current erupting. I’m not an expert but this does appear to be an unusually active time.
- vzaliva 6y agoI hope somebody is recording this stream. It could make an amazing time-lapse video later.
- stewx 6y agoDirect YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-9QzIcr3c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-9QzIcr3c
- dang 6y agoRelated: I captured the Iceland volcano eruption from up close - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543533 - March 2021 (14 comments)
- pugworthy 6y agoI have this on my TV now as a sort of screen saver. It's mesmerizing in a way.
- _allingoodtime_ 6y agoWowzers.Question: Is there a supervolcano in Iceland?
- andrewflnr 6y agoNot exactly, in the sense that I don't think it will be the site of a large, violent eruption: the pressure has too many less-violent ways to escape. However, it (probably) does have a mantle plume under it, which is the main ingredient in other supervolcanoes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_hotspot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_hotspot Also, fun fact from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano: "Many volcanologists consider Iceland to be a large igneous province that is currently being formed."