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Grindavik [video]
- RandallBrown 3y agoI saw that the Blue Lagoon just reopened yesterday. Does the eruption mean that it will close again or does it mean they don't have to worry about it erupting right at the spa?
- any1 3y agoIt is most definitely closed. The only people in that area now are construction workers who are closing the gap between the two mountains Þorbjörn and Hagafell, in order to protect the power station. Edit: For context: https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/18/i_vidbragdsstodu_ad_fylla_upp_i_skard_a_gardinum_2/ https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/18/i_vidbragdssto... They're closing the barricade where the road intersects it. The northern intersection seems to be a priority rather than the southern one, like I thought first.
- gnabgib 3y ago"About 4,000 people were earlier evacuated from the fishing town of Grindavik and the nearby Blue Lagoon geothermal spa was closed." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67756413 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67756413
- gojomo 3y agoHere's a good 4-feed live multiview, with the submitted feed in it's lower-left quadrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg If you scrub back to 22:17:15 (on the embedded video clocks), you can see the initial eruption caught. At a time like 00:12:26, you can see the camera with the best view rattle as if by a quake – which then appears in the quake log, lower-right.
- ajxs 3y agoDo you mean 22:17:15? Thank you for posting this! The moment of the eruption is really amazing to watch!
- fuzzbazz 3y agoIt went from 100 quakes per hour at the moment of eruption to 1 right now. I wish Youtube live had chat replay to see people's reaction, it doesn't seem to work when the stream is still live.
- bowsamic 3y agoUnfortunately you can only look back 12 hours on youtube so we can't see this anymore
- gala8y 3y ago3 mins snapshot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qFtTYhn2E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qFtTYhn2E
- SeanAnderson 3y agoI'm always taken aback by the beauty and brightness of a lava flow. It's pitch black outside, but it's almost easy to forget that, given how brightly everything is lit up.
- ranting-moth 3y agoTitle needs editing. This is a live stream from a volcanic eruption that just started in Iceland. https://www.ruv.is/english/2023-12-18-eruption-on-reykjanes-peninsula-live-399926 https://www.ruv.is/english/2023-12-18-eruption-on-reykjanes-... At the moment it doesn't look like flight traffic will be affected.
- any1 3y ago> At the moment it doesn't look like flight traffic will be affected. Yes, in fact the opposite. Air traffic controllers in Iceland were planning a strike, and they've now postponed it because of the eruption, they claim. Source: https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/18/aflysa_verkfallinu/ https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/18/aflysa_verkfal...
- hef19898 3y agoWe are going to Iceland in a coupke of days. Fingers crossed we don't have a strike and an erruption that can be savely photographed.
- hef19898 3y agoReply to myself: This eruption, unlike thebone before it, is not considered "tourist friendly", so no volcano shots. Either way, most important thing is that there are no cassualties and property damage is minimal.
- johngossman 3y agoI am in Iceland now. The ATC strike has been in the morning, delaying flights 4-5 hours but not cancelling them. Flights are still coming in and out today. Last night another guest at our hotel saw the eruption from the plane.
- hef19898 3y agoSeeong an eruption from a plane has to be quite a sight!
- runarberg 3y agoMy home town made it to the front page of HN. I don’t live there any more but my family does. I visited last November during the major seismic activity and the town was evacuated. My family found a safe harbor at our extended family in a nearby town (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225019). One local “correction” from most media (including the Icelandic media). The mountain (or hill rather) closest to the eruption is actually called Svartsengi by the locals, but Sýlingafell on maps. Svartsengi is actually the field down the hill behind the camera. They used to hold boxing matches and festivals there in the 50s and 70s respectively. Svartsengi is also the name of the nearby power plant (even though it is actually closer to Baðsvellir). If we want to be explicit we use a definite article Svartsengið to mean the field Svartsengisfell to mean the hill and Hitaveitan to mean the power plant. Sýlingafell is never used.
- nukenuke 3y agoDo you know the GPS location where the eruption is happening?
- runarberg 3y agoThe fissure is still growing and is about 4 km now, and I’ve been following along the national radio RÚV[1]. There is a map of the fissure and the live stream angles there[2] (hopefully the link works). Based on it looks like the southern reach is near Gálgaklettar (N 63° 52' 4", W 22° 24' 20") and the northern reach is passed Stóra Skógarfell (N 63° 53' 53", W 22° 21' 39"). 1: https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-12-18-gossprungan-ordin-um-4-kilometrar-og-gaeti-lengst-i-att-ad-grindavik-399923 https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-12-18-gossprungan-or... 2: https://dankxip1iu8u9.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAicnV2LXByb2QtcnV2aXMtcHVibGljIiwgImtleSI6ICJtZWRpYS9wdWJsaWMvb3JpZ2luYWxfaW1hZ2VzL215bmRhdmVsYXJfc2pvbnN2aWQuanBnIiwgImVkaXRzIjogeyJyZXNpemUiOiB7IndpZHRoIjogIjgwMCIsICJmaXQiOiAiY292ZXIifX19 https://dankxip1iu8u9.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAicnV2LXB...
- ughitsaaron 3y agoTakk fyrir!
- NoboruWataya 3y agoIs there a significant chance this turns into another Eyjafjallajökull situation with huge disruption to global travel, just in time for Christmas?
- gojomo 3y agoNot really. While there's danger to local infrustructure, this area & eruption is more likely to remain a (series of) ground lava flows, without explosive ejection of ash to high altitudes, at high volumes – as would be required to significantly disrupt air traffic.
- runarberg 3y agoNot a volcanologist but I have been following this for awhile. My answer is no. The only chance of something like that happen is if the eruption moves under the sea. This particular hot spot is very reluctant to under sea eruptions. During magma intrusion the dyke extended a lot and reached passed the town and beneath the sea floor, so was a very slim chance of an under sea eruption for a minute there. However the dyke stopped extending soon there after and has since solidified in any under sea portions of it.
- pixl97 3y agoOnly if magma starts erupting in the ocean, then it will make significant amounts of ash. It doesn't appear to be making large amounts of ash now, and I think the general consensus is it will not.
- Kye 3y agoMulti-cam view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
- somenameforme 3y agoIt's so interesting to see things like this and imagine what peoples of times past would have thought about when first discovering such sights and sites! Or even imagine yourself seeing this thousands of years past with no idea of what or why it was happening.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoThis needs a comedy sketch
- netfortius 3y agoSo funny you should mention this! I am almost finished re-reading one of my childhood favorite comics, Rahan [1] , where authors imagined live in prehistoric times, and where almost one third of the albums bring up the topic, one way or another, attempting to imagine what kind of feelings and beliefs such events induced. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahan_(comics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahan_(comics)
- parentheses 3y agoThere is a Doctor Who episode where they went to Pompeii.
- runarberg 3y agoNo need to guess. There is almost a thousand year old story in Iceland which describes such a thing in Brennunjálssaga. The story goes something along the lines that they were discussing whether to adopt Christianity at the Parliament. but as they were debating somebody told them that a new eruption had started. Some assembly members wanted to blame this on the debate, that the gods were insulted that they were considering being abandoned, however others argued: “Then what angered the gods that produced the lave which we stand on now?” In short, people kind of knew what was going on. They may not have known the exact mechanism, but they did know that this was how land formed, and was a normal part of nature, just like the northern lights, earthquakes and rain.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoIt's so amazing that we can just immediately have a bunch of live feeds and easily scroll back on them to see the moment the eruption occurred. "What a time to be alive" vibes.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoThis is naturally much, much bigger than the eruption in Fagradalsfjall...the fissure is about 2.8 to 6 kilometers long and still growing. https://www-mbl-is.translate.goog/frettir/erlent/2023/12/19/miklu_miklu_staerra_gos/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en https://www-mbl-is.translate.goog/frettir/erlent/2023/12/19/...
- whycome 3y agoIf you scrub the live stream you can watch the fissure expand.
- greggsy 3y agoStarts at around 22:55 for fifteen or so minutes. Pretty terrifying, but they seem to have it all under control. It’s difficult to get any sense of scale, but there’s some good panning shots where you see how close the power station is.
- senectus1 3y ago> but they seem to have it all under control. they have the people under control... there is no way they have any semblance of controls over the fissure or the magma/lava.
- gpm 3y agoThey have a very slight semblance of control over the lava, in the sense that they have built some berms in an attempt to protect important infrastructure (power plant and town) should the lava flow towards it. But ya, mostly they have the people evacuated and taken care of.
- senectus1 3y agoI suspect it's too early to suggest the berms are protecting anything. They're just delaying. having said that, the Icelandic Dyke seems to have very "runny" magma. this might help with deflection.
- oksurewhynot 3y agoDoes the footage look slo-mo to anyone else? Is that really how lava (magma, idk what its called) actually move through the air?
- nialse 3y agoI think it’s a trick of the mind. The “flames” can be 100 meters tall, hence the magma just looks as it moves slowly at a distance.
- zebracanevra 3y agoTo help discern scale, scrub to 23:22:00, when a helicopter flies over
- sundvor 3y agoAnd 22:17 from where it erupts!
- voisin 3y agoIs it normal for there to be such a long (4km!) fissure with lava erupting? I always was under the impression a pit formed and then filled with lava which would then overflow out the sides, rather than a long rip in the earth like this.
- bradrn 3y agoYes, this is pretty normal for a basaltic volcano such as this one [0]. This is also what happened on Mauna Loa recently [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissure_vent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissure_vent [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_eruption_of_Mauna_Loa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_eruption_of_Mauna_Loa
- mr_toad 3y agoIceland sits on top of the Mid Atlantic Ridge where the continental plates are being pushed apart. More common volcanoes are associated with subduction zones where plates collide.
- xg15 3y agoGood observation. I think this would be highly uncommon anywhere else in the world (at this length) but it's normal for Iceland. The reason is that Iceland's vulcanism is driven by a hot spot that sits right on top of the middle oceanic ridge (where tectonic plates emerge from the mantle, as opposed to coastal subduction zones where they travel back into the mantle). The ridge is normally on the seafloor and this is one of the very few places where it runs on land. This makes Iceland's volcanism so special and specifically interesting for science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_hotspot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_hotspot
- louthy 3y agoSean Willsey’s (geology professor) live commentary was worth following for some deeper insights as he’s trying to analyse the situation https://www.youtube.com/live/iqF5YQRdhtw https://www.youtube.com/live/iqF5YQRdhtw
- Kye 3y agoHis cohost (I might be wrong about that) just finished a live drone flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJsNTX0nGkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJsNTX0nGkk It almost looks like a still image.
- movedx 3y agoMy wife and family were there only a few months ago. Good timing.
- ajmurmann 3y agoI was there Friday. So upset I missed this. I went in 2021 to see the eruption that went on for months. It stopped the night before I went to the crater and picked back to shortly after I left Iceland...
- paul7986 3y agoInteresting there are a Lots of Iceland posts on hacker news. Im guessing tons of tech people from all over the world have visited and fell in love with Iceland too! Though heads up going there to see the northern lights is all about luck unless you stay for weeks to months. Be cool see the lights and this active volcano in the opposite direction of each other :)
- johngossman 3y agoThe aurora is very active this year. We’ve seen it in twice in six days. Friends saw it the first night. Iceland Met has an Aurora forecast based n solar conditions and cloud cover https://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/aurora/ https://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/aurora/
- echelon 3y agoDid this happen right underneath the town? Is the town okay? IIRC, I remember news some weeks back that a fissure was opening in the town roads and steam was billowing up from it. Did the volcano literally sprout from the town center?
- gpm 3y agoThe currently erupting fissures are something like 2.5 to 6 km north of the town. The town is fine*, so far, but there's obvious concern about where the lava is going to travel. * Evacuated, and some structural damage from pre-eruption earthquakes and earth movements like the fissure you mention
- hax0ron3 3y agoThis eruption has caused me to re-read Pliny the Younger's words on the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD: http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written-by-pliny-the-elder-about-the-eruption-of-vesuvius-in-79-a-d-history-of-pompeii-en-238-s.htm http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written.... Words that are worthy of reading both for their extremely vivid and personal description of something that, from our vantage point, happened a very long time ago, and for their eloquence.
- maxlin 3y agoDamn, the fire dep of this city really sucks. Whole thing's on fire
- baz00 3y agoI was actually hiking up there in August. Absolutely surreal to see that now.
- saevarom 3y agoI live in Reykjavik, west side and close to the ocean. From the coast line there it is about 35km or 22 miles direct line of sight to the eruption site. I went out about 1 hour and 15 minutes after the eruption started and saw the lava flow about 100-150m in the air with my bare eyes. I've seen a few eruptions but they are always mesmerizing! A (not very good) photo I took: https://imgur.com/a/Yc2apSu https://imgur.com/a/Yc2apSu
- bamboozled 3y agoThe aerial footage is absolutely mesmerizing and beautiful IMO. I'm jealous as I'd love to see at least some of the real thing.
- saevarom 3y agoHere is a video taken from the coast guard helicopter science flight around 1,5 hours after the eruption started: https://www.visir.is/k/3260696d-37f9-4160-9b6a-3862fea52cb8-1702942166543/myndband-af-eldgosinu-tekid-ur-thyrlu https://www.visir.is/k/3260696d-37f9-4160-9b6a-3862fea52cb8-...
- indigochill 3y agoHa, we might be neighbors. I took a pretty similar picture from Sörlaskjól. I just happened to be chilling for the evening when I saw the red glow on the horizon and snapped a picture just as it started going up: https://imgur.com/xLZqcqO https://imgur.com/xLZqcqO
- TheAlchemist 3y agoAbsolutely amazing spectacle ! On the current footage, I have no idea of the scale though - it looks huge but at the same time the terrain around looks like a miniature.
- saevarom 3y agoThe fissure length at its maximum is thought to be around 4km in length, about 2.5 miles. The output has diminshed and the webcam is zoomed in on the most active part right now, which is probably not more than a few hundred meters.
- saevarom 3y agoHere is a map of the area: https://dankxip1iu8u9.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAicnV2LXByb2QtcnV2aXMtcHVibGljIiwgImtleSI6ICJtZWRpYS9wdWJsaWMvb3JpZ2luYWxfaW1hZ2VzL0VsZGdvc18xOWRlc19zdGFkc2V0bmluZ18wMzAwX0lTLnBuZyIsICJlZGl0cyI6IHsicmVzaXplIjogeyJ3aWR0aCI6ICI4MDAiLCAiZml0IjogImNvdmVyIn19fQ== https://dankxip1iu8u9.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAicnV2LXB...
- Simon_ORourke 3y agoIs there any threat to Atlantic flights from the dust and debris going into the high atmosphere?
- pfdietz 3y agoNo, not at all.
- pfdietz 3y agoThe eruption appears to have calmed way down (flow down by a factor of 4), and they're saying Grindavík appears to not be in danger, with the lava being erupted north of the topographic dividing line where it would flow to the town.
- jules-jules 3y agoThey also let people return just yesterday implying the danger was low. I read that based on the strength of the initial eruption it could continue for several months. So I’d say let’s wait and see.