In my opinion this is a bad thing because now all of this lava is just going to pile up on itself. It's going to fill in all of the low areas and when this thing erupts again multiple times in the future it's going to overtake these Berms
@@crazysanor theyre raising the barriers by another 4m now, but yea every eruption will increase costs and likelyhood of further damage with following events
I'm sorry to say this.... but seeing how some areas are erupting around the Blue Lagoon.... do they realize there's nothing stopping it from erupting from the inside of the Blue Lagoon itself? Same with the rest of the areas? Reason I'm saying this cause if the lava keeps making more open areas as its moving around eventually its gonna create a new one right under the buildings themselves.... Like for example idk how deep the pipes are underground... Lava could easily travel through them...
Can we take a moment to congratulate the crews who work so hard to keep these burms up and working to keep everything safe? Without them, who knows what damage could have been caused over the last year. These hard working individuals deseve a raise and much needed recognition!
With all the world's geology happening at such a long time it's amazing that we can watch volcanoes changing the landscape in our lifetime. I hope everyone stays safe. 🙂🖖❤️❤️❤️. Thank you for the update. 😃
Iceland grow by about 5 cm a year so in my live time it's grown 170 cm. Not a lot when compared to islands but that's longer then me and that's amazing.
Yup. Also, the eruption went through some powerlines, and the subsidence from this eruption is much smaller than the previous one. Thank you so much for your coverage Tim.
this will be VERY costly due to not being able to bring people in, we are talking $3-4million a week. so might seem like "ah just a parking lot" but really this is pretty bad. (also rebuilding is way harder than a road as a road you arnt parking on so it being hot doesnt matter much ) This could end up costing 10s million in lost revenue.
I got news for you eventually there's going to be lava in those pools. Filling in all the low areas and it's going to overtake the Blue lagoon within a few years. You can only prolong it.
At some point the lava near that parking lot is gonna crust over and inflate like a balloon. There is where the berms may be compromised. Lava at Kilauea is notorious for inflating like this but it would be interesting to see if the consistency of this lava makes inflation less likely.
@ferretyluv Kilauea produces both. During the 2018 Lower Puna eruption it started as A'a then as the older lava erupted and cleared the dyke it changed over.
@@kamildowejko2254 with the 2018 lower Puna eruption it started as A'a until the old magma cleared the dyke but became Pahoehoe as the fresher hotter magma entered the zone.
I think something has changed deep down, it can be a similarly long eruption as the one in March, just maybe larger, of course, all this as a layman. The eruption has not weakened in the last 12 hours and the eruption rate is quite intense
As always an informational and engaging film, I happened to be following G.H very closely around the two incidents with ,A.K & H.T.H.I.E . Thank you for your hard work and magma uplift amongst the other terms that you have been explained, Is the main reason I keep coming back! 🖖👍
While I admire the Icelandic authorities for their efforts in protecting the Blue Lagoon and (probably more important), the power plant I sincerely hope that they have a team working on the design and location of alternatives in the event (looking more probable all the time) that the lava engulfs the Blue Lagoon and power plant. Better to be proactive than reactive.
I remember commentators mentioning that previous flows might reach the BL carpark. But nothing was done to protect it. Perhaps they have a plan to just use the cooled lava as the next parking lot. Or they have a different site in mind? Is there no way berms can be built to stop every eruption crossing the road?
Nothing they do will protect the area. The whole area is on borrowed time. Those fissures will eventually open up in the Blue Lagoon and swallow Grindivik. The idiocy of humans is too effing funny.😂😂😂
How smooth a surface is the lava over the parking lot? Maybe you can just paint the parking space lines back on and keep going. We get floods of water here, not lava. Basalt would make a durable parking lot surface.
The Lava surface is very rough. No vehicles exept bulldozers can drive there. Also for cars to park there safely the Lava needs to cool down at least a couple of months. Building a dirt road over the Lava should be possible after two weeks, but stopping there is not recommended.
it might take months to years before they can properly make a new road and parking lot for the Blue Lagoon. Higher chance they might make a new road and parking lot on the other side of the lagoon zone. Avoiding the lava zone
HELLO! I have a weird question about volcanic lava..and the molten iron nickel outer core of our planet we call "earth". QUESTION: What would happen if too much molten material erupted?? Would it cause the core to stop spinning?
The total volume of the planet does not change, nor does the mass. I'd be concerned if the lave leaves the planet somehow tho. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum#Conservation Edit: The answer to the question is: No, nothing happens.
The lava flows we see come from the very topmost parts of the Earth, nowhere near the core. Basically what we're seeing here is pretty much like stuff happening in the peel of an apple. That's how thin the layer is in comparison to the whole.
@JariJuslin okay now I see so there's no chance that "the innermost part of the mantle"-or M.C.B could ever stop spinning? Liquid metal flowing fast..like the convection we observe..if we could see below our feet..this "convection" creates electrical magnetic field. I just had a thought but it's not anywhere near close to the movie:;"The Core". My thought was..too many volcanoes erupting at once could cause instability in the mantle/Core boundary... This causing the earth to slow down. And all the big buildings putting stress on the crust. Now that's another topic for another day. E.C.D.aka "Earths Crust Displacement".
@@DavidZuleger-m5w Volcanic eruptions involve material that is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the total mass of the mantle or the core. It is difficult to put into words how insignificant volcanic eruptions are in that scale, but to put things in perspective, there is a type of mega-eruption called a Flood Basalt, which have a lava output that is millions times larger than that of the largest volcanic eruption we have ever witnessed. But Flood Basalts have absolutely no impact on the contents of the mantle or core either.
How has the multiple eruptions over the years affected geothermal energy extraction operations in Svartsengi? I imagine a few million cubic metre of hot molten rock going up every few months, this close to the power plant, might have either increased borehole temperatures massively or pinched at least a few conduits down there.
I didn't think so but it was worth a try... The earth is too big. Traveling all the way around...it's 25,000+ miles!! So I stand corrected. But there is one more eruption that dwarfs flood basalt eruptions...it's called...a "hyper eruptions which could potentially cause issues within the core / mantle..thus causing the earth to "tilt" or slow it's spin..or at least have a dramatic effect.
They are planning on opening it back up on Friday. They keep it open as much as they can because of the money involved. However, a fissure could open up near or even in the blue lagoon at any time. It’s always been that way, that’s why the blue lagoon is warm in the first place.
Thankfully the westernmost lava flow shouldn’t advance too much further.
Thank you Timothy
In my opinion this is a bad thing because now all of this lava is just going to pile up on itself. It's going to fill in all of the low areas and when this thing erupts again multiple times in the future it's going to overtake these Berms
@@crazysanor theyre raising the barriers by another 4m now, but yea every eruption will increase costs and likelyhood of further damage with following events
The Towada Caldera volcano has extensive seismic activity at the moment
I'm sorry to say this.... but seeing how some areas are erupting around the Blue Lagoon.... do they realize there's nothing stopping it from erupting from the inside of the Blue Lagoon itself? Same with the rest of the areas? Reason I'm saying this cause if the lava keeps making more open areas as its moving around eventually its gonna create a new one right under the buildings themselves.... Like for example idk how deep the pipes are underground... Lava could easily travel through them...
Can we take a moment to congratulate the crews who work so hard to keep these burms up and working to keep everything safe? Without them, who knows what damage could have been caused over the last year. These hard working individuals deseve a raise and much needed recognition!
Complete waste of money and time. 😂😂
I'm impressed that the berms work at all. The people who built them are wizards of civil engineering.
*berms
@@davidmurray6176so are kids... or a new car, a fine meal.
People and things have intrinsic value. We persist, but we are dust in the wind
Yes!!!👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🫶🏾
With all the world's geology happening at such a long time it's amazing that we can watch volcanoes changing the landscape in our lifetime. I hope everyone stays safe. 🙂🖖❤️❤️❤️. Thank you for the update. 😃
Iceland grow by about 5 cm a year so in my live time it's grown 170 cm. Not a lot when compared to islands but that's longer then me and that's amazing.
Yup. Also, the eruption went through some powerlines, and the subsidence from this eruption is much smaller than the previous one.
Thank you so much for your coverage Tim.
earth be like
"you know im gonna get that powerplant one day right?"
Why do you think the power plant is there? It’s because it’s so active around there.
@@ferretyluv i know....
Thanks as always Geology Hub!
The legend is keeping it legendary 💪
Thank you very much for the update geohub
Interesting to track this series of eruptions, see the responses and get the tourists feedback
Much appreciated, once again, Timothy
Less output now suggests that the eruption will last longer.
You're right if the total amount of lava being erupted now and in the coming days is similar to the amounts being erupted in the events before.
👋🏻👴🏼
To the crews that built the lava leves. Great work guys. Go team human.
this will be VERY costly due to not being able to bring people in, we are talking $3-4million a week. so might seem like "ah just a parking lot" but really this is pretty bad. (also rebuilding is way harder than a road as a road you arnt parking on so it being hot doesnt matter much ) This could end up costing 10s million in lost revenue.
I got news for you eventually there's going to be lava in those pools. Filling in all the low areas and it's going to overtake the Blue lagoon within a few years. You can only prolong it.
As GeologyHub pointed out (I don't remember if it was this video or the previous one), they can easily make a temporary dirt parking lot.
I think the Blue Lagoon and the power plant are living on borrowed time.
At some point the lava near that parking lot is gonna crust over and inflate like a balloon. There is where the berms may be compromised. Lava at Kilauea is notorious for inflating like this but it would be interesting to see if the consistency of this lava makes inflation less likely.
Isn’t the lava at Kilauea pahoehoe lava? This is ‘a’a lava.
@ferretyluv Kilauea produces both. During the 2018 Lower Puna eruption it started as A'a then as the older lava erupted and cleared the dyke it changed over.
@@ferretyluv Depends on eruption, Kilauea erupts both types of lava, pahoehoe is only in the smallest eruptions, big one have A'a' lava
@@kamildowejko2254 with the 2018 lower Puna eruption it started as A'a until the old magma cleared the dyke but became Pahoehoe as the fresher hotter magma entered the zone.
I think something has changed deep down, it can be a similarly long eruption as the one in March, just maybe larger, of course, all this as a layman. The eruption has not weakened in the last 12 hours and the eruption rate is quite intense
SVR station graph is useless because it got destroyed by lava. GRV station shows stable trend
As always an informational and engaging film, I happened to be following G.H very closely around the two incidents with ,A.K & H.T.H.I.E . Thank you for your hard work and magma uplift amongst the other terms that you have been explained, Is the main reason I keep coming back! 🖖👍
Nice video and graph content!!!
Damn… I was at the blue lagoon just a month ago!!
Me too!!!
Great informative video.
While I admire the Icelandic authorities for their efforts in protecting the Blue Lagoon and (probably more important), the power plant I sincerely hope that they have a team working on the design and location of alternatives in the event (looking more probable all the time) that the lava engulfs the Blue Lagoon and power plant. Better to be proactive than reactive.
I remember commentators mentioning that previous flows might reach the BL carpark. But nothing was done to protect it. Perhaps they have a plan to just use the cooled lava as the next parking lot. Or they have a different site in mind?
Is there no way berms can be built to stop every eruption crossing the road?
Nothing they do will protect the area. The whole area is on borrowed time. Those fissures will eventually open up in the Blue Lagoon and swallow Grindivik. The idiocy of humans is too effing funny.😂😂😂
@@davidmurray6176no
Thanks.
I hope Hawaii road engineers are learning from those in Iceland
🎶Paved parking lot and put up a hellish landscape.
How smooth a surface is the lava over the parking lot? Maybe you can just paint the parking space lines back on and keep going. We get floods of water here, not lava. Basalt would make a durable parking lot surface.
If only car tires were made of rock.
*"Calling Fred Flintstone!"*
The Lava surface is very rough. No vehicles exept bulldozers can drive there. Also for cars to park there safely the Lava needs to cool down at least a couple of months.
Building a dirt road over the Lava should be possible after two weeks, but stopping there is not recommended.
It’s ‘a’a lava, so it’s super jagged and rough. I saw the lava in person earlier this year. You can’t just pave over it.
it might take months to years before they can properly make a new road and parking lot for the Blue Lagoon.
Higher chance they might make a new road and parking lot on the other side of the lagoon zone. Avoiding the lava zone
Yo Geodude :)
HELLO! I have a weird question about volcanic lava..and the molten iron nickel outer core of our planet we call "earth".
QUESTION: What would happen if too much molten material erupted?? Would it cause the core to stop spinning?
The total volume of the planet does not change, nor does the mass. I'd be concerned if the lave leaves the planet somehow tho. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum#Conservation
Edit: The answer to the question is: No, nothing happens.
The lava flows we see come from the very topmost parts of the Earth, nowhere near the core.
Basically what we're seeing here is pretty much like stuff happening in the peel of an apple. That's how thin the layer is in comparison to the whole.
@JariJuslin okay now I see so there's no chance that "the innermost part of the mantle"-or M.C.B could ever stop spinning? Liquid metal flowing fast..like the convection we observe..if we could see below our feet..this "convection" creates electrical magnetic field. I just had a thought but it's not anywhere near close to the movie:;"The Core". My thought was..too many volcanoes erupting at once could cause instability in the mantle/Core boundary... This causing the earth to slow down. And all the big buildings putting stress on the crust. Now that's another topic for another day. E.C.D.aka
"Earths Crust Displacement".
@@DavidZuleger-m5w Volcanic eruptions involve material that is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the total mass of the mantle or the core. It is difficult to put into words how insignificant volcanic eruptions are in that scale, but to put things in perspective, there is a type of mega-eruption called a Flood Basalt, which have a lava output that is millions times larger than that of the largest volcanic eruption we have ever witnessed. But Flood Basalts have absolutely no impact on the contents of the mantle or core either.
How has the multiple eruptions over the years affected geothermal energy extraction operations in Svartsengi? I imagine a few million cubic metre of hot molten rock going up every few months, this close to the power plant, might have either increased borehole temperatures massively or pinched at least a few conduits down there.
I didn't think so but it was worth a try... The earth is too big. Traveling all the way around...it's 25,000+ miles!! So I stand corrected. But there is one more eruption that dwarfs flood basalt eruptions...it's called...a "hyper eruptions which could potentially cause issues within the core / mantle..thus causing the earth to "tilt" or slow it's spin..or at least have a dramatic effect.
Is the power station safe?
We are supposed to go on a trip there this coming mid December. Do you think Blue Lagoon will remain closed? It is included in one of our tours.
Should be fine, they reopen pretty quickly after these.
They are planning on opening it back up on Friday. They keep it open as much as they can because of the money involved. However, a fissure could open up near or even in the blue lagoon at any time. It’s always been that way, that’s why the blue lagoon is warm in the first place.
"only' 32 million cu. meters of lava- and it just flow downhill . . science is great . . .
😎👍
The floor is lava
Huuu. Nana no Parking bru🥹 and it don't stop. Move get out the 🌊.
Be worried about the ash emissions until 1/28/2025.
1/28/2025 is your window. I have The whole Northern and Southern Hemisphere on High Magnitude Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption Warning!
Horrible narration
BEAUTIFUL,,,ONLY THING LEFT IS THE BLUE TURNED TO ROCK STONE,MELTED GENTILES BED,AMAGINE THAT SHIT,,DAM