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My 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
by runarberg 3y ago
My 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!