Earthquakes and/or Volcanoes
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The vulcano has changed its mode of operation. In the recent days it does no longer throw lava into the air, but the lava flows now continuously.
Yesterday it filled another corner of the upper valleys and spilled over a new low ridge into the valley below, the third feeding stream. With this it cut off the most recent viewing high point and crossed the path that was recently cut into the mountain side. I understand there is an attempt to build up a wall in an attempt to cut off this stream.
Yesterday it filled another corner of the upper valleys and spilled over a new low ridge into the valley below, the third feeding stream. With this it cut off the most recent viewing high point and crossed the path that was recently cut into the mountain side. I understand there is an attempt to build up a wall in an attempt to cut off this stream.
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It's gotten way smokier too, also. It had been mostly smoke free except when jetting the lava fountains; now the smoke is constant, mostly obscuring the caldera, where the now very large lava lake is enthusiastically bubbling away. During the very brief hours of almost darkness, however, the smoke is fairly see through.
Edit: here's what it looks like when you can see through the smoke:
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The creepy crawley filling the lower valey of Nátthagi. I wonder how long it will take to fill the whole of the valley floor until it spills over to the way to the sea.
(I guess that the blubbering of the lava is caused by heating the ground to steam, rain water that collected in sand.)
(I guess that the blubbering of the lava is caused by heating the ground to steam, rain water that collected in sand.)
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Those people are nutz.
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Filled the valley quite a lot since i did see a last overview
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Much of the expansion in the Nátthagi valley took place on June 15th. Here's the timelapse video of the valley for that single day.
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To think that glaciers used thousands of years to model this landscape in a distant past and a vulcano just fills it within months...
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But Iceland is not a continental island. Volcanoes created the land where there was none; glaciers only shaped it. It is the volcanoes that rule Iceland. The volcano giveth and the volcano taketh away.
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Reading
Geology of Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Iceland
Iceland on the web https://www.icelandontheweb.com/
Geology https://www.icelandontheweb.com/article ... re/geology
Geology of Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Iceland
Iceland on the web https://www.icelandontheweb.com/
Geology https://www.icelandontheweb.com/article ... re/geology
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This is at the tongue end in the lower valey of Nátthagi where the lava has been quiet for about two days. But nobody knows what covered tunnels with fluid lava could be.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-22/ ... /100134024
The power of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault
Pressure is building along one of the most active fault lines in the world and New Zealand is in a race to be ready.
The Alpine Fault runs along the country’s South Island and it has a history of sudden movements.
Scientists can read the lakes and old-growth forests in the foothills of the Southern Alps and learn about what’s come before.
What they have found reveals a great earthquake, one of the biggest in New Zealand’s modern history, is due.
There is now a 75 per cent chance a large earthquake will happen along the Alpine Fault in the next 50 years, according to the research.
“But we can take it a step beyond that,” Jamie said.
“We see that it has an 82 per cent chance that it’s going to be another one of these multi-section, very long ruptures that have a magnitude in excess of eight.”
The power of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault
Pressure is building along one of the most active fault lines in the world and New Zealand is in a race to be ready.
The Alpine Fault runs along the country’s South Island and it has a history of sudden movements.
Scientists can read the lakes and old-growth forests in the foothills of the Southern Alps and learn about what’s come before.
What they have found reveals a great earthquake, one of the biggest in New Zealand’s modern history, is due.
There is now a 75 per cent chance a large earthquake will happen along the Alpine Fault in the next 50 years, according to the research.
“But we can take it a step beyond that,” Jamie said.
“We see that it has an 82 per cent chance that it’s going to be another one of these multi-section, very long ruptures that have a magnitude in excess of eight.”
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Fasten your seatbelt!
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Beautiful view from the air on two different days
THE CRATER #2 - more laps around and more descriptions of the landscape
PRIVATE PILOT - TRAVEL AROUND
Published on 21 Jun 2021
DO NOT WALK ON LAVA. RESCUE IMPOSSIBLE.
Two flights with 7 laps around the Crater and the Volcano at Geldingadalir, Iceland.
ICELAND - Geldingadalir eruptions - most spectacular spot on Iceland since march 2021.
Until June 12, 2021 the eruptions where 3-4 minutes long. The time between two eruptions was 10-12 minutes.
Now the situation changed: The lava flow is more constantly. More and more lava comes out of the crater, the crater is full like a bathtube with too much water in it. The lava inside is rolling like an ocean.
The eruption area is 3 Kilometer east of Grusavik, 50 Kilometer south-west of Reykjavik. By car appr. 1 hour driving. By Cessna 172 appr. 15-20 minutes. The world famous Blue Lagoon is less 10 Kilometer away.
FOR PILOTS:
To the east of Keflavik Airport there are 2 zones with restrictions. These are BIR2 and BIR3. Geldingadalir is located in BIR2. Entry is only possible with clearance from the Keflavik Tower. Up to 4 fixed-wing aircraft can enter the zone at the same time (check the current NOTAMs before the flight). The recommended altitude is 1,700 feet.
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Icelandic Volcano Tourist Rescue after 28hr of Intensive Search
Management summary: some tourist did get surprised by sudden bad weather in the vulcano region and did not return by the evening. There was some fear that he may have been among those stupid and crazy people who walked the hardened lava crust, and it was feared he may have broken thru a soft spot and got fried.
not very informative YT
Management summary: some tourist did get surprised by sudden bad weather in the vulcano region and did not return by the evening. There was some fear that he may have been among those stupid and crazy people who walked the hardened lava crust, and it was feared he may have broken thru a soft spot and got fried.
not very informative YT
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Ok, not an earthquake or a volcano, but certainly a disaster:
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Wow!
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How awful. I wonder if all the people on the road got out of the way in time? I wonder how much time anyone had to get out of the houses?MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:16 am Ok, not an earthquake or a volcano, but certainly a disaster:
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Azerbaijan says ‘mud volcano’ caused Caspian Sea explosion
Caspian Sea has high concentration of mud volcanoes, which spew both mud and flammable gas
Helen Sullivan and agencies
Mon 5 Jul 2021 03.01 BST
A strong explosion has shaken the Caspian Sea area where Azerbaijan has extensive offshore oil and gas fields.
The cause of the blast, which caused a column of fire to rise into the sky late on Sunday, was not immediately determined, but the state oil company Socar said preliminary information indicated it was a mud volcano. Socar said none of its platforms were damaged in the explosion.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... -gas-field