Grindavík New Lava Defence Wall, Eruption Evacuation, Greenhouse, Location, Iceland Volcano Update

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Icelandic Meteorological Office is a great source of information and maps:
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The team that designed the dikes at Grindavík and Svartsengi gained a lot of experience in designing and making them when experiments were carried out with dikes during the eruption at Fagradalsfjall in 2021. It was not surprising to the team when the dikes passed the test in the eruption on January 14.
Hörn Hrafnsdóttir, water resources engineer at Verkís and assistant professor at the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at the University of Helsinki, and Sólveig Kristín Sigurðardóttir, geotechnical engineer at Verkís, are on the dam team.
3 D Model of eruption here :
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The GPS data is from University of Iceland here:
strokkur.raunvis.hi.is/gps/8h...
GPS animation here:
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Sulfur dioxide distribution map from here :
www.windy.com/-SO2-tcso2
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[@user-ze8pg8qm6x]

As always explained in a comprehensive manner. Thankyou.

[@TheAstronomer]

Very welcome

[@walterdewald267]

To me the whole idea of building berms (lava defense walls) does not make sense. If I understand right Grindavik is basically built on a volcano and earth can open up anywhere. And it can be huge amounts of lava that's still to come.
Basic logic would suggest to move the town away. But unfortunately mankind has developed a bad attitude towards our mother Earth.
We seem to enjoy to go at war with her. That's why defense walls.
So when Earth laid out the current land it was all super duper OK, as we were not present and now where we are there Earth must obey human ideas.
Mankind is in a deep spiritual crisis and I don't mean aloof spirituality but down to earth spirituality. We have disconnected from creation - a very bad move.
(I am not religious, not even an atheist).

[@insulanerin7601]

The whole of Iceland is made of lava / basically build by volcanoes. So you're saying Iceland should not be inhabited at all?

[@walterdewald267]

@@insulanerin7601 No of course not. I mean a different mental approach. One that accommodates the fact that a region can become active.
All beings in nature would make a move and we humans have decided to say nature does it wrong, we have to fight it.
Consequently the social approach would need to be different. I.e. that a town like Grindavik would be moved or a new one built at a safe location as close as possible and given for free to the people.
That's a different mindset altogether. A really human one it would be.
Billions are spent on wars but nothing for something that would make sense.
Grindavik is a small town and when I look at all the berms built without any guarantee that fissures will always occur outside of those berms or that not more lava than can be handled occurs I wonder if all that effort would have built a New Grindavik by now.

[@insulanerin7601]

@@walterdewald267 They might have to give up Grindavik, but I suppose they are still waiting a few years. The next eruptions might be further away.

[@walterdewald267]

@@insulanerin7601 In a chat of AfarTV it was said that plenty of Grindavik folks took the government offer to buy their house. They can also buy it back within 3 years.
Weird how hard it is for us humans to be flexible and the inability to accept the fact that we are all one family.
Similar with the Ukrainian soldiers who know they are cannon fodder, have never a chance to win, have a total corrupt government - but yet still go to the front and die. Why? All common sense speaks against that. Why die for an evil cause?
But there we go. Humans are stupid as fuck - sadly, because the potential for an enlightened being is in all of us.