Iceland Volcano Eruption Update; Lava Flowing Towards Grindavík, New Eruption
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- A volcanic eruption just began in Iceland, sending lava flows towards the coastal town of Grindavik. Lava is now flowing in several directions, with new material being added at a rate of 300 cubic meters per second. This new eruption occurred with little warning in the minutes before it commensed, following a trend set by prior eruptions. All of this is occurring via a 2900 meter long fissure at Iceland's erupting Reykjanes volcano.
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0:00 A New Eruption
0:33 Eruption Location
0:45 Lava Fountains
1:30 Lava Flow Pathways
3:09 Expected Eruption Progression
I've been watching this eruption on several channels all afternoon. This has been the most coherent and informative report I've seen yet. Thank you.
Yes.. And this is the channel I believe will give me a most acceptable answer. thank you Geo!!
Yeah, this guy is my favorite geologist
I always come here for updates! Thank you so much for sharing this with the world!😊
If you want facts you are in the right place, no over the top emotion or inflated stories here.
And not click-baity.
Geohub the Volcano News GOAT
Correction - this eruption began at 20:23 local time (8:23pm), not 2 hours later as stated at the start of this video.
Looks like this is gonna be the largest in the last 4 months. Also, lava is now flowing towards the ocean and of course, grindavik. Bad news, it already broke the barriers north of grindavik😮
No one can safely live in Grindavik.
Yeah this is a different style of eruption, the lava from the last intrusion was still there, this is a new intrusion starting this can last more than 5 days potentially
Lava is even closer to grindy now@@ConstantChaos1
@@outlawbillionairez9780Last I heard about a month ago the Government of Iceland is in the process of buying out everyone in the town. Once that happens Grindavik will either be demolished or it will be left perhaps as a test bed for diverting lava.
@@J.G.H. you're right. Government made offers on property. There was talk of relocating Grindavik, but I haven't heard anything lately. They need a town in that area for a number of reasons, and it's not a rich country, so my bet is they will soon start groundbreaking somewhere. Maybe north of Grindavik?
Thanks as always! The eruption is spectacular! I cannot believe that Iceland has experienced its tallest lava fountains in 51 years!
I hope Grindavik will not be affected too badly.
I hope you will do I livestream to cover this Geology Hub! Thanks so much!
That can killed you in an instant. Nothing spectacular about it.
@The_North0 True, but something can be spectacular (eye-catching) while also being very dangerous.
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It is spectacular. To you understand what the word means?
Weren't the tallest lava fountains estimated to be a bit taller (over 1000 feet) during the 2021 eruption at Fagradalsfjall? Then this wouldn't have the tallest lava fountains in Iceland in 51 years
Between you and Shawn Wilsey, you're the only two channels I watch on this.
I can recommend @just icelandic as well. Very nice stuff he does
And Rob Tasker!
Iceland did it again boyz‼️‼️‼️
Love this channel cuz it fills the Geography Volcanoe loving kid I was when I was younger with joy.
Is there a chance you can talk about the Apoyeque Caldera in Nicaragua in a video? My grandma always talked about it and she always made tales of it having the capacity to be another Krakatoa, and you can barely find any easy access to information on Apoyeque and it’s caldera, would love to know more
Thank you, GeologyHub!🌋
I am happy to take your words to heart….
Question: Do you plan to livestream and/or fly a drone? If so, any idea when? Thank you. Take good care.
Man wish I could see those fountains in person
So i was over at Shawn Wilsey's Livestream, and word over there was that the lava output doesnt seem to be dropping like it did during the last several eruptions (or at least, it hadnt significantly dropped off in the first 4 hours).
Yeah just looking at the history this is the start if a new magmatic intrusion, we have all the lava from the last one being pumped out now and the new stuff is flowing in, this one will last a while imo
But to be fair I just am just like autisically well in tune with the earth (like legit my autism just makes me understand the way physics works idk, its convenient tho and makes sense since I'm a blood relative of Newton) not a geologist
I know i may be getting ahead of myself, but theoretically, is this how the Deccan & Siberian Trapps eruptions played out? They just kept erupting cyclically for thousands of years?
On the live webcams I can see it has slowed its output now. It’s condensed down to two main areas outputting quite a bit of lava still and a few other smaller ones
NO........They were on a scale that you possibly wouldn't believe. Erupting for millions of years resulting in lava flows that are thousands of feet thick.
@@ronanzann4851 While the eruptions could last for millions of years the ones which are recent enough to record more specifics through high precision dating of flows suggest the eruptive rates were quite variable The Deccan traps for example seem to have had a substantial spike in eruptive volume a few thousand years or so after the timing of the Chicxulub impact. The most recent flood basalt like event the Columbia Basalt Group it seems followed a similar trend where the bulk or eruptive output was within a few hundred thousand years or so.
Thank you as always for being on the ball & getting this video out to us. Much appreciated. All the best to you & hope Tony & Steve are well.🐱👍🏻😊
Great video. The infographics and maps were awesome. I also liked the arrows added to the video of the lava, very nice.
We just returned from Iceland and swimming in the blue lagoon 2 days ago!!! Lucky us! Be safe Iceland!
Thank you, Geo. It sounds like as long as the magmatic plumbing underground doesn't change the area could see frequent but short duration eruptions for some time. Each time the magma chamber refills and empties in a cycle.
This is my go-to channel for volcano news. I show my students too, as you explain things so well. Thank you :)
Thank you for the concise but thorough update. Very informative. You hit all the key points.
Been waiting for this one!
Thanks for all of your hard work man!
Other people are covering the eruption but it was your update that I was waiting for.
This eruption seems different than the last three; lava flow rates so far have not abated, and it's been six hours since the start of the eruption.
Yeah. Activity at the fissure seems to have died down which is normal. Though as you said the lava flow rate hasn't decreased. That tells me that even though activity at the fissure has died down, lava output has remained the same but became more concentrated on a few active fountains.
Props to the workers who are protecting Grindavik with their land walls. Hopefully no breaches!
Two videos in one day. Nice
I was waiting for your video to drop. You always have the best maps and clearest explanations. It was confuding trying to figure out where exactly the eruption was flowing watching live cams.
Hopefully the berms hold sround Grindavik and the power station.🍀🇮🇸
Sadly, this eruption shows how deadly living in Grindavik can be. A sizable eruption and no warning makes this area unlivable.
There was enough seismic activity beforehand to allow warning sirens to be sounded and the Blue Lagoon evacuated.
He mentioned it took something like 26 days for this eruption to start and that gave them plenty of time to be as ready as one can be with a volcanic eruption.
@@catcando1131 I feel the Icelandic government has done a great job! They've already moved non-essential residents out of the area. I'm saying they can't risk a large eruption with rapidly flowing lava. They seem to be focused on saving the harbor and the power station. Unfortunately, those two things are downhill from the largest uplift area, and there's ongoing uplift taking place since the last eruption started. Not good. 👍☮️🌎
Thank you
Paths 1 and 2 merged seems to be following #2 path
Thank You.
Thank you for this information!
Thank you for the concise update!
Also I hope that grindavik does not get destroyed too badly
No great explanation I agree totally..
Hopefully though I'm thinking that general activity might decrease maybe an eruption at the keflik field maybe mid summer.. then activity wain for 12-24 months giving grindavik a breather & Chance of normality before some other activities may or may not resume.. hopefully not.. 👋
I havent been watching you videos lately I have been very busy but I just learned about this new eruption seems terrifying I will be watching this. time to binge
Wow, 900 feet‼️
Apparently the red glow from the eruption could be seen 110 miles away.
3:40 - 50 BOB and Rag-Nar, we miss you! 😢
Wow absolutely spectacular! Love watching this I have family in iceland im from England what magnificent footage !
There were few earthquake warnings, but if you watch the video you can see smoke or steam rising from that area a few minutes before. So there was some warning, but only a few minutes warning.
I saw the glow on the horizon passing through the Keflavik airport this morning 😊
Incredible, Icelandic erruption doesn’t disappoint.
So whats the long term game plan for the town? Eventually it won't be feasible to keep making diversion berms high enough as the town will be remarkably lower than the surrounding new lava fields.
The berms around Grindavik should be complete for the time being although if the lava threatens to clear the berm somewhere the workers would step in to seal it if possible.
During the time between eruptions residents have been allowed to return to the town to work and collect personal belongings. They have been offered a buy out of their homes. Some have accepted, some not. This town is in a holding pattern while this eruption cycle continues which could be for years.
Good afternoon, I'm Brazilian, and when there was activity on the island of la Palma I found a pattern, being able to predict up to 7 hours before the big eruptions happened, at the time I posted it on my Instagram, I didn't think about YT, I could have made some videos warning on YT and hours later showing the video of the lives of the eruptions happening, I will analyze this one from Iceland and make videos on YT to show that even without understanding volcanoes and geology we can use mathematics to predict strong activities. thanks for the video.
i love your videos. :)
"Jack of all trades, master of none type eruption" is a phrase that I have never ever heard in my life. Also, is "icelandic style eruption" a new thing?
That is an expression my father used often during my childhood in Massachusetts in the 1950s. That dates me. It simply means that a person can do lots of jobs, but remains a dilitante at all.
Amazing
I look forward to the content on this channel. But I must admit to a guilty feeling for being a bystander with no chance of losing my possessions. I'm grateful that the outcome of this eruption at this time is not threatening the town or the power station. I hope the activity in general comes to a stop before any of the population are permanently displaced. Do you think the cycle of dormancy and activity will continue and if so for how long?
There is no consensus even among Icelandic volcanologist how long this eruption cycle will last. Could be months could be years.
bad news here, they predict it could go on for a long time
Love that orange glow against the black rock old lava. Beautiful contrast.
Modern drone footage really does give us a new perspective.
What I’m wondering about for quite some time now is this… The magma uprising from deep down seems to be continuous… yet the shallow magma chamber is emptied every now and then. But the inflow from below is not interrupted.
Can it be that after an x-number of such eruptions ( emptyings of the chamber ), that this chamber kind of decreases in size and thus the magma will be pumped up in a slow, but continuous eruption?
So I can't help but wonder - are these new lava flows creating additional barriers around Grindavik and the power plant, or are they creating potential pathways for future flows to overtop the man-made barriers?
The earth unzips.....such a wild phenomenon.
Wow!
On other questions
Are the geysers in geyserville California and Sonoma county former hot springs over a volcano not listed in my other maps?
This one might reach 5 days in length, i think it started during the intrusion of new lava, this is the lava from the last earthquake swarm, thats why there is more gas and thats why it wasnt forecast by earthquakes
The long term fill rate of the magma chamber seems pretty constant so this cycle isn't going to end any time soon
3:48 This video is unreal, I could look at it for hours
Have you ever tried to calculate the amount of heat energy being released by an eruption to like this and contrast it to the energy people consume?
They need to change their name to Lavaland!
As someone with ifestiophobia, I really shouldn't have watched this before going to bed.
i opened my quake tab and saw that there was about 100 quakes going on so i knew something had started and sure enough the live feeds showed an eruption .
did the bore hole give them any clues ? , as didnt they say last time that they could get a possible 30 min warning due to gases and the water temp increasing in "an" bore hole ?.
Weren't the tallest lava fountains estimated to be a bit taller (over 1000 feet) during the 2021 eruption at Fagradalsfjall? Then this wouldn't have the tallest lava fountains in Iceland in 51 years, as you state in this video
May 10, 2021 saw 300-500m plumes of lava.
That was fast
Lava just has it in for grindavik. At this point, it's the under dog. I'm rooting for the little town.
How many people have come to see the volcano from out of your country I wonder ?
Ive seen other shield volcanoes form by fissure volcanoes and eruptions overlapping each other. Is it possible that a new shield volcano will form there in the peninsula near Grindavik?
This eruptive pattern of this volcanic activity is like what happened in the past. Short eruptions from a line of fissures more or less in the same area. No shield volcano formed from those past eruptions so it is unlikely that it will happen this time imo. Those past eruptions happening about 3000 years occurring every 800-1000 years and lasted up to decades at a time but the eruptions appear to have been brief like now. However, because those eruptions were so long ago it is difficult to get much detail about them. This is a new reality even for Iceland!
Oh my god
How dangerous would a submarine eruption be of the Reykanes volcano?
Didn't the Nar crater fountain to 1500-1600 feet at one point?
Do you see a risk that a new fissure opens up near Grindavik, as happened on one of the earlier eruptions?
that is possible, in a near future eruption, but unlike with this one. because it already started, it has no reason to find new paths..... but in one of the next it could happen
"higher than typical gas content"..
Hehe!! Those who know me, and the work I've been quietly doing for the last 12 years, understand why I enjoy those words occuring more and more often!..
They are words to live by...
Once a month huh, yes I'm not mature.
Where does the blue lagoon stand in all this my friend?
Just like the Svart Sengi power plant. It is well protected by the berm. Even if the lava cleared the berm it probably could not get far.
Hugs
Does anyone understand or can anyone explain how such a large eruption occur with only 11 micro quakes in the previous hour.
In my mind that is the most important scientific part of this event.
Please try. I am willing to listen to any possible answer.
Math in my head. It's 19h19m here, and 02h19m in Iceland 🇮🇸 = 7 hours difference which means the new eruption has been ongoing for 4 hours. 🌋
Geo hub got the time wrong. It started at 8:23 pm or 18:23 Iceland time.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 8:23 pm is 20:23. IIRC, Iceland uses time zone UTC, aka GMT, even though it's a few hours west by the sun, presumably for commercial convenience.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 You right I got the translation from the 12 hr to 24 hr time wrong.
poor iceland, be safe
Are we absolutely certain that lava is not actually spicy delicious tomato sauce?
Why is the 3m^3/s threshold significant? If a volcano is out putting a low but non-zero amount of lava, then how is it not erupting?
I think that when it drops that low it's probably a combination of the lava being too thick to flow and it solidifying faster than the flow rate, so it closes over vent thus blocking any further flow. Sort of like a scab forming over a cut.
Is this a shield volcano? How is it classified?
Crater Rows
Knew it!
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Is the this Iceland Volcano considered a shield Volcano?
No, technically it is a fissure volcano which evolves into cinder cone volcanoes which eventually consolidate to one volcano vent. Eruptions like in the last months don't erupt long enough to form shield volcanoes.
This eription took long enough.
Since this event is typically ongoing (ie, the spread/drift of the continent) when do you expect the next erruption? And how do you thing it will go, ie, direction and volume?
It could be a monthly occurrence, but how long this eruptive cycle lasts is impossible to say. It could go on for years.
Eventually this area underground will become too saturated with old unerupted magma and then not enough magma can accumulate to lead to another eruption so the magma will look for another avenue to the surface and cycle will start over with little interuption between the last cycle and the next. Or it could just stop erupting for a while before starting up again in a few years.
this series of events loves to create fountains! Let us hope the lava enters the sea east of Grindavik and not through the town.
I am guessing when a fisher closes it tends to stay that way or seal itself and the magma takes the path of least resistance! Question: it would seem that Grindavik is next😢....
Fissure.
If a lava lobe reaches the ocean, would explosions be expected? If so, how serious are they likely to be?
Nothing serious, just a lot of steam.
Lots if steam but also possible to have hydrochloric acid plumes
Not hydrochloric, but sulphuric acid would form because the steam would combine with the sulphur in the lava. And some ash would be form too as the water flashing to steam would shed some of the lava.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 yes and the resulting sulfuric acid reacts with the chloride in the saltwater creating hcl
@@garrettmillsap Yes you may be right on that! Touche!
With so many recent eruptions through the same faults, are the rocks in the area now not brittle enough for breaking? Are they soft and warm and easier for the new lavas to push aside before erupting with few warning signs?
Yes, they are more broken up allowing magma to intrude into the space more easily then before without having to break up rock. Consequently, there were like 11 earthquakes prior to this eruption which is fraction compared to past eruptions.
I'm concerned that an eruption could happen right in the western part of Iceland where the first intrusion happened on November 10 forcing evacuation of the town. That came very close to having an eruption.
My poorly worded question
Why is it that Reykjanes is erupting pretty much the exact same way that fagradalsfjall did. Since it is known that this is a completely volcanic system, why is the magma composition the same and not higher viscosity and more explosive/ dangerous like it was thought to be?
I think you worded the question quite well and it is a good question. Most all of the eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula are of low viscosity magma because it comes from deeper in the earth. Perhaps a combination of the hot spot to the east and the spreading tectonic plates directly under the peninsula. Past eruptions were also like this. The last series of eruptions were 780 years ago.
What if iceland explodes lava in water
If the lava flow reaches the ocean it would cause a minor explosion with some ash and steam. Not dangerous unless you are close by.
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That city shouldn't exist in the first place. Too bad for the people who have homes there, but they all should abandon this city for good
Many are stating that this will hit the ocean, if so is there a risk of poisonous gas?!
Yes, but only for the immediate area. The lava entering the ocean causes the sea water to flash to steam instantly which shreds the lava creating some ash, but not much. The moisture in the air combines with the sulphur to produce sulphuric acid which if inhaled would be lethal.
"an area where the potential did not exist for a person to be unexpectedly caught off guard..."
hmmm...I'm not going to not have to think about that sentence for a second.
GOATeologist
I miss the good ole days when lave erupted from a single vent for more then a month .
and you could walk to it and toast your hotdog. a nice elegant vulcano, from a civilized time
@@Blackadder75 And you could just enjoy the show because nobody was harmed by it, and the tourism was helping the economy.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 now you mentioned it, I checked the prices that year and decided I would go help some other economy :D what an expensive country!
@@Blackadder75Yes, it is . We were going to go last year, but the cost was prohibitive . Time to win the lottery !
they need to call these Taco Bell eruptions......
Will this lava to form deccan traps like structure in future?
Hello... thank you for your reporting., There was an earthquake on the Atlantic riff way south of here yesterday was said to be fairly significant. Could this have had an affect on the eruption happening today?
Probably not because it was too far away.
QUESTION: Eruptions in Reykjaness seems to be always of the basaltic type, while eruptions of other volcanoes around the Hreppar microplate seem to be of various constitutions, Ryolite, Andaside and Basalt. To me it seems that eruptions on Reykjaness are fed by the Midatlantic Ridge, while the other eruptions like Hekla, Katla and Oreifajokull and other vulcanoes on Iceland seem to be fed by the hotspot that created Iceland. HAS ANY STUDY BEEN DONE ON THE TYPES OF LAVA ON ICELAND? IS THERE ANY STUDY AVAILABLE WHAT HAPPENS UNDER THE HREPPAR MICROPLATE? HAS ANY STUDY BEEN DONE TO EXPLAiN THE WIDE VARIETY OF ERUPTIONS AND VOLCANOES ON ICELAND? It is my impression that all studies are just focussing on individual volcanoes, not on the sources of eruptions and not on the underlining geological and mega volcanic features under Iceland. BESIDES CONJECTURE AND UNDERBELLY SENSATIONS, WHAT ARE THE PROVEN SOURCES OF ERUPTIVE MAGMA ON ICELAND?