Thank you Roman and Nina for your continued effort in bringing us new footage and showing the constant changing landscapes on such a regular basis. Stay safe.
Nice. I think this wall will help divert the lava flow in nattaghi for quite some time. it is not about blocking lava but diverting it, contrary to the first walls. thanks for showing it.
Thanks for the view from on top of the hill. Gives a much better perspective of the area. I was not aware they built a second berm. Thanks for sharing, cheers. 👍
Thank you for the coverage of the volcano. This video helps bring context to the issue of what could be in the path of the lava as it heads towards the ocean.
Roman, I think you have done the best job of documenting the volcano and its various flows. I would not be surprised to see your footage used in news and documentaries. What a what a treasure Iceland has in you!
While the added commentary and locations are very interesting and the intention and subjects in-frame are very revealing, the footage will unfortunately be unusable for documentaries due to the panning, zooming and shaking. But I agree for mainstream (us) this is great footage you do not see with anyone else :) So keep up the great job in informing us.
Thank you so much. This is the first video where I've been able to see the lie of the land and where everything is. I knew there was a nearby city but I just couldn't figure it out until you created this video. So very helpful. TaKe care.
Thank you for all your videos, very interesting as medias in France do not give any information about what's happening. Moreover they are very beautiful and impressive !!
Thank you Roman for documenting the eruption. Your comments are very informative, keep up the good work. The scientists should hire you to do in-field studies, you're out there all the time :-)
Very helpful perspective toward the sea as you showed us the different pathways. Up until now I’ve only seen that from above on a two-dimensional map. This help visualize it for me.
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
This is high Drama in slow motion. It needs great passion+also great patience+good oversight to document it properly. Very many thanks for doing it. I would like to see something similar from Mount Aethna. But they seem to shorttempered for this kind of work down there in Sicily. P.S.Congrats, good Antiracist, finally you got me.
This video had best view yet , of the POSSIBILE Lava fields & its trek breaching the road & reaching the Atlantic Ocean 🌊. This volcanic system 🌋 has a mind off its own almost like a sentient being…. Geez! Being in Iceland 🇮🇸 we must consider Elves 🧝🏻♀️ 🧝 in control 🙄
Wow the Volcano is huge now,it looks like the lava has broken through the bottom of the wall? It must be quite worrying for the people in the town I shall watch with interest ,Thank you you will be super fit by the time the lava reaches the sea ☺
Your videos are interesting and very important as usual. Highly appreciated additional information, which cannot be obtained easily from official sources or the 24/7-streams. Many thanks for this! But please try to improve them by not constantly zooming and panning. After something you mentioned, people need to look and find what you just said in a stable & steady picture for some time. Show this by holding the cam for a while, showing this scene once and long enough to get this information with the eye and brain. Panning to a scene and immediately to the next and probably right back and constantly zooming in and out makes me dizzy and annoyed not to have given the time needed to look for what you just told. Probably consider to compose it as a kind of slide show with a series of carefully selected animated stills rather than a shaky action video with fast cuts.
I don't understand why people think the lava needs to get to the sea... as if it was a migrating turtle and needs to make it to the ocean. The lava does not care about making it to the sea.. just saying... ultimately yes.. since downhill eventually as always, is the ocean.
@@AndreasDelleske that is a good plan in theory, but as Iceland and Hawaii have discovered in the past it takes immense amounts of water to make that happen. One thing you notice when you visit the current volcano is that there is no water available in the area. The ocean is little further away than you might think, so pumping water from there to the lava front would be an expensive technical challenge. If Grindavik starts to be threatened I can see them trying that, but at this point there’s nothing that would justify the attempt. If this volcano is going to keep erupting for as long as some geologists think, then any wall will be doomed to be over run.
@@ebo360 I see.. thanks. However, farmers can pump water for kilometers, maybe not in some hundred meter height difference.. and then the salt would wash back into the groundwater... not good.
Your videos are fantastic! Here from South Africa we enjoy it very much! Just a suggestion; maybe move the camera a little bit slower when moving from one focus to another.
Looks like people should not be on top of the new wall where smoke seems to be rising from the lower outside of that barrier. Could lava have penetrated through the wall?
Fabulous video logs. Thank you. I found this one a bit too fast moving from one image to another so I listened to it first and then slowed the speed down to 0.25 and picked out the images I wanted to look at for longer. The size of the volcano really shows in this video doesn’t it?
Endless energy spewing from our earth. Rivers, rapids and lava falls streaming quickly as it is hurled from the bowels of earth. I'm so curious as to what the volume of the magma lake is underneath and wonder when it will reach the sea. God bless and stay safe. You and your wife.
Joanne there is no usual magma lake with this volcano. It is feeding directly from the Earth’s mantle. So, in reality, it has pretty much unlimited lava at its disposal.
From the livecam you could see the excavator digging dir like crazy to stop the lava from flowing into Natthagakriki. It was smoking form the bucket so I assume the lave had already started to flow over to Natthagakriki. The wall was built at the last moment, any later and it could not have been built. My interpretation of what I saw on the livecams yesterday.
@TommY SmittY I think you’re over estimating the danger this volcano poses. For Iceland this is still a small eruption. We just got back from visiting the country (and the volcano) and we met several locals that called it the “tourist volcano” because it’s so safe and easy to walk right up to. The forward edges of the lava flows are also advancing very very slowly. Except for the nearby farm house and the town of Grindavik there is literally nothing for miles in any direction along the coast that is threatened by this. The farm is almost certainly doomed unless the eruption stops soon. If you’re on the ground there it’s very apparent that the lay of the land makes lava eventually flowing across it inevitable. I believe authorities have already stated that there’s no good reason or way to prevent this from happening. If Grindavik becomes threatened then the people there will have weeks, if not months, to get themselves and their possessions out of the way. Icelanders are very realistic about the nature of the island they live on, and will be pragmatic about any potential loses of property. I will be amazed if there is any loss of life from this gentle giant of a volcano, unless due to stupidity.
@TommY SmittY That wall very rough by eye maybe 30,000 tons of rock and earth. Volcano output 30,000 tons of molten rock in about 17 minutes. It is just a temporary diversion. Low cost, little point spending many $millions when this may go on for years and there isn't anything worth spending a lot to protect right now. If a mass of lava flows that way it would just push the earth aside. I do wonder if the lava channel running downhill erodes deeper like a river so encouraging it to flow one way and makes it more likely to continue down the valley and more directly toward the sea. Or some can solidify and fill in any channel so perhaps it will just build up over time, fill in the plateau and spill all around. At the current rate and filling more or less uniformly it could take 2 years to fill in enough to threaten the town. From the flow rate the feeder only needs to be a few square meters,as wide as your outstretched arms,. From 20-30km deep and moving up a couple of meters per second this lava may be only a few hours from the mantle. If 2.5 million tons of molten rock moving through that/those channel/s per day opens it/them wider then the flow may increase greatly. Or it could plug tomorrow.
I keep remembering that heroic story of a man fighting the approaching lava with his garden hose. Soon he was joined by others. The dimensions here are different and intimidating, but what about sending in planes being used for fire fighting? Where the terrain is not steep, and the lava is moving slowly, a lot of sea water might help cooling and stopping the flow. By this it could be possible to send the lava to some direction where it doesn't do too much damage.
As I’ve said in other comments, this is sound thinking, but the reality is a lot more difficult. Both Iceland and Hawaii have used water in the past to try to stop or divert lava flows. It takes massive amounts of water, like millions and millions of gallons, to have even a chance of having an effect. Google the Heimaey eruption of 1973 in Iceland. It’s quite the story if nothing else. I believe it was the first successful use of water to keep lava at bay, but the effort was Herculean and arguably only partially successful. Planes dropping water wouldn’t have a chance. The amount of heat that lava contains makes a forest fire seem like a match in comparison. Most of the water would evaporate before it even touched the lava, if not all. Water puts out fire in part by denying it oxygen, but lava isn’t fire.
@@ebo360 Thanks for your reply, maybe that suggestion appears quite naive. Of course I wasn't thinking of a single plane to do the job, and also I am well aware that the lava isn't hot because of a burning process. Such an action would anyway only make sense where the lava is very slow already. And there's still the risk of lava tubes below the crusted surface.
You can bet that the geographers, the surveyors and the engineers have put a great deal of thought about where they plan to steer the lava flow. They will also have plans in case the lava does something unexpected.
I agree with Horst Wieland….the quick panning blurs and is hard to follow. Take pity on those a half world away…it can be hard to keep up with you. What you offer, give, is so generous, and I am so grateful for this experience. It is very much like being alongside of you. Always, thank you so much. Sandra
Being so close to the sea, couldn't you use water pumps to cool the edge of the lava if it moves towards Grindavik, and create a lava wall out of lava?
It think it's likely that it will hold, the way it is angled. It will direct the stream in a favorable direction. There isn't really any lava coming right at this wall. The other walls kinda held too, they just spilled over.
I was thinking the same thing. I believe the cameras work by picking out temp differences and can work from a fair distance away. Coast guard rescue choppers use them to try to find people lost at sea for instance. I would bet that the heat from lava tubes would show up quite nicely. I also believe that scientists have already done this if it’s viable. They tend to think of these things.
I will keep all in prayer but I would be very vo corned for that city. Please make preparations early just in case. Have your family, pets and live stock moved away b4 this reaches. Prayers to all from NC. GB ALL. Sis m
It looks like the more they build walls the more the lava will rise up & spill over. From past observations the lava will spread out & later form tubes to continue its flow. It would be interesting to get a shot of the volcano from the city & maybe see what actions if any are being done to protect the city as well as a current map of how close the lava is from the ocean now. You're doing a excellent job filming this & I truly hope you get some local & international recognition for it too. You are on TH-cam. I bet you & your wife's legs are really strong now as well from all the hiking you have done, have you noticed any physical changes since you began?
Can you tell me how long it takes to hike to the location that you did this video? This looks like a great view and I am hoping it is shorter than the normal volcano hike. Thank you!
In the past at least, Grindavik was a fishing village. Such villages are almost always built on natural harbors. It looks to me like Grindavik's harbor was created by some old lava flows. The flow from Nátthagi Valley would be about 5 km east of the harbor. However, it looks like some of the flow paths that they are trying to guard against are much closer to the harbor. I don't know how well fishing harbors interact with active lava flows nearby.
You are correct, Grindavik was and still is an important fishing harbor, standing on an ancient lava flow. There is a great documentary about Grindavik on "Just Icelandic" channel.
Fascinating to see the newly constructed defensive wall in relation to Grindavik and the coast. The shots from high up put everything into perspective, but please do not move the camera around so much. It is frustrating . . .
Already for the first walls I wondered why they didn't tear down much more material from the side of the mountains to build a high and sturdy structure. Looks undersized to me.
Lava has been diverted on occasions in some other places by spraying one side of the advance with water so that it hardens more quickly than on the other side. It's a long way to pump water from the sea up to where this wall is but not impossible. Do you happen to know it it has been considered?
I do hope that it doesn't go to Grindavik...I understand it's a fishing village and many lives could be shattered. Thank you for all your hard work documenting this eruption. Stay safe, God bless
Since Lava can raise height itself, maybe they should build some ravines to direct the lava to another place just like Yu the Great controlling the floods
That’s the plant that uses the water that ends up in the Blue Lagoon. The plant came first. It generates a lot of waste water so they started pumping it into a large pool to cool down. Then people started coming to warm pool to steam in this warm blue water. Then someone had the bright idea that there might be a way to make a buck (or krona) off this. So the blue lagoon is the side effect of a waste water issue from a power plant.
What amazes me is how folk seem so easygoing about this, walking about there easily & seemingly unafraid, you must be used to this in Iceland I expect?
More walls again? Are we talking possible loss of life/property or damage to a road link? There comes a point where the politicians must decide if it's simply cheaper to replace the road sections than the vain hope that one can build walls faster than a volcano can produce lava? We see this in Hawaii, is the situation here significantly different in some way? I remember a volcanic eruption in Italy many years ago which caused significant flow, and every house in the way was slowly, sloooowly demolished a foot at a time, they tried airlifting buckets of water to try and cool the lava front and force it to divert. It's heartbreaking but comes with the territory.
Great video :-) one simple question as you know these things better than me and most of us instead of building walls to stop the lava - why is there not a .. er .. trench made - to encourage the lava to flow in this path to the sea yes one loose ground this way - but maybe one can choose which path and in this way take most of the lava flow away from more sensitive areas well this is only my thinking - not know if real or possible thanking you kindly Cape Town
What has and is being done, down where the lava crosses Trail A as was, to stop the lava from turning onto and following the trail itself? The engineers must have thought of that. Mustn't they?
It would seem like it could be a good idea to make it easier for the lava to reach the sea near the old farmstead off route 427 to relieve pressure from making any kind of move westward towards the city of Grindavik.
The farm is almost certainly doomed, sad to say. I believe authorities have already stated there is no reason or way to prevent this. Grindavik is a good 5 miles away from the volcano and, as shown in the vid, has a couple solid natural barriers in the way. If Grindavik does become threatened by lava my (admittedly inexpert) guess is that it would take at least a year or two for that to develop. Some geologists think that this is just the start of a new active period along the rift system that is causing the current eruption, and that other vents or volcanos could open up in the area. We just returned from visiting Iceland and spent a couple days visiting the volcano and Grindavik. There are several other dormant, but not extinct, volcanos much closer to the town. It’s also worth noting that the town is sitting on an old lava flow. It’s literally surrounded by lava fields. I believe they were threatened by lava flows within the last 100 years (but it might be a little longer than that). Either way, the evidence of the areas fiery past is everywhere you look. I doubt any one in the town thinks there won’t be a day it happens again, or thinks there is any way to prevent it.
@@ebo360 Thank you for the reply. I'm a retired mining geologist so I have a general understand of the volcanic processes taking place but I'm not a volcanologist by any stretch of the imagination. Like you just pointed out the farmstead is most likely going to be lost so wasting time and resources trying to postpone the enviable should be ruled out. Now protect the town of Grindavik and other vital facilitates and resources should be a prime area of using governmental efforts, resources and monies to protect, harden or divert the lava intrusion away from these vital items.
@@richardlong3745 you get so much more understanding of the dynamics by actually being there and seeing the lay of the land. Lava doesn’t act exactly like water does, but it will mainly find the easiest way to follow gravity. The terrain will make flowing fairly directly to the ocean the most obvious and open path for quite a while. But, if it continues for as long as some say, it will eventually fill that area and start to push out across the plains around it. But I still think it will be a matter of years, not months, for Grindavik to begin to worry, if at all. On the other hand, if this is the beginning of a shield volcano then the entire width of the peninsula could be threatened given enough time. There are several shield volcanos on Iceland that have formed over the millennia, and they can be massive. There’s a well known example of how massive a shield volcano can be. We call it the big island of Hawaii.
@@truthjustice5144 I don't think they are trying to stop it this time. That dirt wall looks like it's oriented to "deflect" lava down a preferred valley. We shall see.
Looks like it's more of a walking trail than a serious attempt to halt the flow of lava. They could have put some effort into it, if it was truly meant to achieve anything.
I am beginning to think that no one has seen the movie Volcano. The location of the volcano is ridiculous but the fight Anne Heche’s character had to make it understood that magma/lava won’t stop until it reaches the ocean seems kind of relevant.
Goodin frog I need you to get closer to the Volcano this parking lot stuff is just not compelling I know it's a little dangerous to get closer to the Volcano but if you take the proper precautions you'll be fine
Thank you for all your videos!!!!!! I enjoy them and am learning about Iceland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
your videos have been the best to truly show the landscape and where the lava is flowing. much appreciated.
Thank you Roman and Nina for your continued effort in bringing us new footage and showing the constant changing landscapes on such a regular basis. Stay safe.
Nice. I think this wall will help divert the lava flow in nattaghi for quite some time. it is not about blocking lava but diverting it, contrary to the first walls. thanks for showing it.
Thanks for the view from on top of the hill. Gives a much better perspective of the area. I was not aware they built a second berm. Thanks for sharing, cheers. 👍
You have shown us so much! You are much appreciated! Thank you 😊. Brenda
Thanks for overview from so high up You must be in incredible shape w all this hiking!
This is such an informative video, Gutn Tog, and I appreciate you showing us views we do not normally see on the 24 hour videos. Thank you! ❤️
Thank you for the coverage of the volcano. This video helps bring context to the issue of what could be in the path of the lava as it heads towards the ocean.
Roman, I think you have done the best job of documenting the volcano and its various flows. I would not be surprised to see your footage used in news and documentaries. What a what a treasure Iceland has in you!
So, so true.
While the added commentary and locations are very interesting and the intention and subjects in-frame are very revealing, the footage will unfortunately be unusable for documentaries due to the panning, zooming and shaking. But I agree for mainstream (us) this is great footage you do not see with anyone else :) So keep up the great job in informing us.
Agreed!
@@Lucas_Pit They probably select single frames to show though. The information is there.
@@Lucas_Pit I bet you’d gladly accept such footage it if it explained JFK tho.... food for thought.
Thank you so much. This is the first video where I've been able to see the lie of the land and where everything is. I knew there was a nearby city but I just couldn't figure it out until you created this video. So very helpful. TaKe care.
Very nice to get yet another perspective of how things are flowing… 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thank you for all your videos, very interesting as medias in France do not give any information about what's happening. Moreover they are very beautiful and impressive !!
Thank you for that now i get a clearer perspective of how it all fits together.
I can't wait to go back from the beginning and watch the videos all over again. It has changed so much! Thanks for continuing to give us updates!
Another wonderful report, thanks!
It is remarkable, and your filming help to clarify what is happening, where the lava is going etc. Thanks for doing this, good job!
Love listening to you, you sounds so down to earth, wish I could visit Iceland, from me in Jakarta
Thank you Roman for documenting the eruption. Your comments are very informative, keep up the good work. The scientists should hire you to do in-field studies, you're out there all the time :-)
Very helpful perspective toward the sea as you showed us the different pathways. Up until now I’ve only seen that from above on a two-dimensional map. This help visualize it for me.
Thankyou for showing us.
Such good perspective for those of us following you. Thanks. Happy Fathers Day
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
You know that's right!
Love it! Indeed, as Joni said, “you don’t know what you’ve got, till it’s gone”!
That song was written about Hawaii, you know.
This is high Drama in slow motion. It needs great passion+also great patience+good oversight to
document it properly. Very many thanks for doing it.
I would like to see something similar from Mount Aethna. But they seem to shorttempered for
this kind of work down there in Sicily.
P.S.Congrats, good Antiracist, finally you got me.
So good to hear the Iceland names of places. The sky is so beautiful.
Important stuff, great work, good wishes.🐦
Thank you for sharing 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
This video had best view yet , of the POSSIBILE Lava fields & its trek breaching the road & reaching the Atlantic Ocean 🌊. This volcanic system 🌋 has a mind off its own almost like a sentient being…. Geez! Being in Iceland 🇮🇸 we must consider Elves 🧝🏻♀️ 🧝 in control 🙄
Very valuable video! Thank you!
Thanks for documenting this for the 🌎🌍.
Have been following your videos since you started. You’re doing a great job. We will be in Iceland June 26. Hooray
Wow the Volcano is huge now,it looks like the lava has broken through the bottom of the wall? It must be quite worrying for the people in the town I shall watch with interest ,Thank you you will be super fit by the time the lava reaches the sea ☺
No kidding!
Thanks for this video, it answer many questions to me.
Please stay safe you and Nina 💕
I look forward to viewing your Vlogs. They're really interesting. Keep up the good work and take care of yourself.
Your videos are interesting and very important as usual. Highly appreciated additional information, which cannot be obtained easily from official sources or the 24/7-streams. Many thanks for this!
But please try to improve them by not constantly zooming and panning. After something you mentioned, people need to look and find what you just said in a stable & steady picture for some time. Show this by holding the cam for a while, showing this scene once and long enough to get this information with the eye and brain. Panning to a scene and immediately to the next and probably right back and constantly zooming in and out makes me dizzy and annoyed not to have given the time needed to look for what you just told.
Probably consider to compose it as a kind of slide show with a series of carefully selected animated stills rather than a shaky action video with fast cuts.
Volcano sees the new wall and says, "Hold my beer!"
Lol puny humans
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:} That's funny!
Hold my Java
Volcano is the Hulk, and wall is Loki, lol
I don't understand why people think the lava needs to get to the sea... as if it was a migrating turtle and needs to make it to the ocean. The lava does not care about making it to the sea.. just saying... ultimately yes.. since downhill eventually as always, is the ocean.
Man versus volcano…I’m betting on the volcano - the LAVA will have its way
Pour water on the place where you want to build a wall and the lave will pile up on itself..
@@AndreasDelleske that is a good plan in theory, but as Iceland and Hawaii have discovered in the past it takes immense amounts of water to make that happen. One thing you notice when you visit the current volcano is that there is no water available in the area. The ocean is little further away than you might think, so pumping water from there to the lava front would be an expensive technical challenge. If Grindavik starts to be threatened I can see them trying that, but at this point there’s nothing that would justify the attempt. If this volcano is going to keep erupting for as long as some geologists think, then any wall will be doomed to be over run.
@@ebo360 I see.. thanks. However, farmers can pump water for kilometers, maybe not in some hundred meter height difference.. and then the salt would wash back into the groundwater... not good.
Thank you for the video's. Most appreciated.
Your videos are fantastic! Here from South Africa we enjoy it very much! Just a suggestion; maybe move the camera a little bit slower when moving from one focus to another.
That lava flow, is totally relentless, thanks for sharing, be safe every one.
Icelanders: We will build a wall to control the fllow.
Volcano: jajajajaja
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Well help something.
@@ormalibu2056 Icelanders: we will win 8 weeks.
Volcano: I have 2000 years.
Looks like people should not be on top of the new wall where smoke seems to be rising from the lower outside of that barrier. Could lava have penetrated through the wall?
too thick (the lava) to go through the wall I'm betting.
@@watchgoose ha ha lava will pass through
Its hotter than anything put in front
It will melt and push though
Like a weak dam
Fabulous video logs. Thank you. I found this one a bit too fast moving from one image to another so I listened to it first and then slowed the speed down to 0.25 and picked out the images I wanted to look at for longer.
The size of the volcano really shows in this video doesn’t it?
Endless energy spewing from our earth. Rivers, rapids and lava falls streaming quickly as it is hurled from the bowels of earth. I'm so curious as to what the volume of the magma lake is underneath and wonder when it will reach the sea. God bless and stay safe. You and your wife.
Joanne there is no usual magma lake with this volcano. It is feeding directly from the Earth’s mantle. So, in reality, it has pretty much unlimited lava at its disposal.
I can't help but notice that there is steam on the other side of the wall... Did they build that section above hardened, but still hot lava?
From the livecam you could see the excavator digging dir like crazy to stop the lava from flowing into Natthagakriki. It was smoking form the bucket so I assume the lave had already started to flow over to Natthagakriki. The wall was built at the last moment, any later and it could not have been built. My interpretation of what I saw on the livecams yesterday.
@TommY SmittY I think you’re over estimating the danger this volcano poses. For Iceland this is still a small eruption. We just got back from visiting the country (and the volcano) and we met several locals that called it the “tourist volcano” because it’s so safe and easy to walk right up to. The forward edges of the lava flows are also advancing very very slowly. Except for the nearby farm house and the town of Grindavik there is literally nothing for miles in any direction along the coast that is threatened by this. The farm is almost certainly doomed unless the eruption stops soon. If you’re on the ground there it’s very apparent that the lay of the land makes lava eventually flowing across it inevitable. I believe authorities have already stated that there’s no good reason or way to prevent this from happening. If Grindavik becomes threatened then the people there will have weeks, if not months, to get themselves and their possessions out of the way. Icelanders are very realistic about the nature of the island they live on, and will be pragmatic about any potential loses of property. I will be amazed if there is any loss of life from this gentle giant of a volcano, unless due to stupidity.
@TommY SmittY That wall very rough by eye maybe 30,000 tons of rock and earth. Volcano output 30,000 tons of molten rock in about 17 minutes.
It is just a temporary diversion. Low cost, little point spending many $millions when this may go on for years and there isn't anything worth spending a lot to protect right now.
If a mass of lava flows that way it would just push the earth aside.
I do wonder if the lava channel running downhill erodes deeper like a river so encouraging it to flow one way and makes it more likely to continue down the valley and more directly toward the sea. Or some can solidify and fill in any channel so perhaps it will just build up over time, fill in the plateau and spill all around.
At the current rate and filling more or less uniformly it could take 2 years to fill in enough to threaten the town.
From the flow rate the feeder only needs to be a few square meters,as wide as your outstretched arms,. From 20-30km deep and moving up a couple of meters per second this lava may be only a few hours from the mantle. If 2.5 million tons of molten rock moving through that/those channel/s per day opens it/them wider then the flow may increase greatly. Or it could plug tomorrow.
Great view and explanation, thank you, be safe
People using the wall for a track should pick up a rock or two on the way and add to the wall. Everyone knows that, from little things big things grow
Thankyou!! Of course we can depend on you for the perfect overview.
I keep remembering that heroic story of a man fighting the approaching lava with his garden hose. Soon he was joined by others.
The dimensions here are different and intimidating, but what about sending in planes being used for fire fighting? Where the terrain is not steep, and the lava is moving slowly, a lot of sea water might help cooling and stopping the flow. By this it could be possible to send the lava to some direction where it doesn't do too much damage.
As I’ve said in other comments, this is sound thinking, but the reality is a lot more difficult. Both Iceland and Hawaii have used water in the past to try to stop or divert lava flows. It takes massive amounts of water, like millions and millions of gallons, to have even a chance of having an effect. Google the Heimaey eruption of 1973 in Iceland. It’s quite the story if nothing else. I believe it was the first successful use of water to keep lava at bay, but the effort was Herculean and arguably only partially successful. Planes dropping water wouldn’t have a chance. The amount of heat that lava contains makes a forest fire seem like a match in comparison. Most of the water would evaporate before it even touched the lava, if not all. Water puts out fire in part by denying it oxygen, but lava isn’t fire.
@@ebo360 Thanks for your reply, maybe that suggestion appears quite naive. Of course I wasn't thinking of a single plane to do the job, and also I am well aware that the lava isn't hot because of a burning process. Such an action would anyway only make sense where the lava is very slow already. And there's still the risk of lava tubes below the crusted surface.
great job, thank you!
You can bet that the geographers, the surveyors and the engineers have put a great deal of thought about where they plan to steer the lava flow. They will also have plans in case the lava does something unexpected.
I agree with Horst Wieland….the quick panning blurs and is hard to follow. Take pity on those a half world away…it can be hard to keep up with you. What you offer, give, is so generous, and I am so grateful for this experience. It is very much like being alongside of you. Always, thank you so much. Sandra
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Is this a new wall? was the first wall in this location overflowed?
Very informative.
Mother Nature ALWAYS bats last!
Being so close to the sea, couldn't you use water pumps to cool the edge of the lava if it moves towards Grindavik, and create a lava wall out of lava?
Building a small lake there would be interesting.
Thank you very much. Does it smell?
It think it's likely that it will hold, the way it is angled. It will direct the stream in a favorable direction. There isn't really any lava coming right at this wall. The other walls kinda held too, they just spilled over.
A thermal lens/camera will show where the lava is flowing under the crust.
Agree, it would be a good experiment to use a FLIR attachment and what the results are
Probably going to be overwhelmed by the latent heat throughout the lava field
@@Mugdorna
How can that happen if the person and camera are at a safe distance?
@@13BGunBunny I'm talking more about the fact that the entire lava field will glow with heat in an infra-red shot
I was thinking the same thing. I believe the cameras work by picking out temp differences and can work from a fair distance away. Coast guard rescue choppers use them to try to find people lost at sea for instance. I would bet that the heat from lava tubes would show up quite nicely. I also believe that scientists have already done this if it’s viable. They tend to think of these things.
Thanks again for sharing your videos. Stay safe and God bless.
I will keep all in prayer but I would be very vo corned for that city. Please make preparations early just in case. Have your family, pets and live stock moved away b4 this reaches. Prayers to all from NC. GB ALL. Sis m
It looks like the more they build walls the more the lava will rise up & spill over. From past observations the lava will spread out & later form tubes to continue its flow. It would be interesting to get a shot of the volcano from the city & maybe see what actions if any are being done to protect the city as well as a current map of how close the lava is from the ocean now. You're doing a excellent job filming this & I truly hope you get some local & international recognition for it too. You are on TH-cam. I bet you & your wife's legs are really strong now as well from all the hiking you have done, have you noticed any physical changes since you began?
Can you tell me how long it takes to hike to the location that you did this video? This looks like a great view and I am hoping it is shorter than the normal volcano hike. Thank you!
In the past at least, Grindavik was a fishing village. Such villages are almost always built on natural harbors. It looks to me like Grindavik's harbor was created by some old lava flows. The flow from Nátthagi Valley would be about 5 km east of the harbor. However, it looks like some of the flow paths that they are trying to guard against are much closer to the harbor. I don't know how well fishing harbors interact with active lava flows nearby.
You are correct, Grindavik was and still is an important fishing harbor, standing on an ancient lava flow. There is a great documentary about Grindavik on "Just Icelandic" channel.
Fascinating to see the newly constructed defensive wall in relation to Grindavik and the coast. The shots from high up put everything into perspective, but please do not move the camera around so much. It is frustrating . . .
Lets see your shots of the area.
Roman,
I am coming there in 3 weeks does it seem like there will still be any flow by then?
Nature has its own laws and we humans have to accept them even if it is not easy.
Already for the first walls I wondered why they didn't tear down much more material from the side of the mountains to build a high and sturdy structure. Looks undersized to me.
Hope this time the wall will work; at least will slow it down for a while 👍❤🙏🙏🙏
Nice to see, I am not the only one who’s awake at night. You because you are posting vulcano videos, and me bacause my kidney stones keep me awake.
I pray that all the pain goes away and you get sound sleep in JESUS name! Blessings to you!🙏
@@nicolemarie3258 Thank you very much.
Lava has been diverted on occasions in some other places by spraying one side of the advance with water so that it hardens more quickly than on the other side. It's a long way to pump water from the sea up to where this wall is but not impossible. Do you happen to know it it has been considered?
I do hope that it doesn't go to Grindavik...I understand it's a fishing village and many lives could be shattered. Thank you for all your hard work documenting this eruption. Stay safe, God bless
Is this the new wall ?
why is the ground smoking on both sides of the wall ?
did they bury hot lava with old cold crushed lava to make this wall ?
Take care enjoy your videos
Why does the "new" wall, look like it is supposed to stop something heavy, and hard flying into it? Like rocket sled tests?
Since Lava can raise height itself, maybe they should build some ravines to direct the lava to another place just like Yu the Great controlling the floods
you guys need to thicken that wall by about 20 fold... otherwise the laval which is heavy and dynamic will just push it out of the way.
What is the steam coming up from beyond the airport?
Geothermal plant
That’s the plant that uses the water that ends up in the Blue Lagoon. The plant came first. It generates a lot of waste water so they started pumping it into a large pool to cool down. Then people started coming to warm pool to steam in this warm blue water. Then someone had the bright idea that there might be a way to make a buck (or krona) off this. So the blue lagoon is the side effect of a waste water issue from a power plant.
What amazes me is how folk seem so easygoing about this, walking about there easily & seemingly unafraid, you must be used to this in Iceland I expect?
More walls again? Are we talking possible loss of life/property or damage to a road link? There comes a point where the politicians must decide if it's simply cheaper to replace the road sections than the vain hope that one can build walls faster than a volcano can produce lava? We see this in Hawaii, is the situation here significantly different in some way?
I remember a volcanic eruption in Italy many years ago which caused significant flow, and every house in the way was slowly, sloooowly demolished a foot at a time, they tried airlifting buckets of water to try and cool the lava front and force it to divert. It's heartbreaking but comes with the territory.
@Gutn Tog • This overview is really helpful. You find the best locations to shoot videos. Stay safe, hello to Nina, & get some sleep.
Great video :-)
one simple question as you know these things better than me and most of us
instead of building walls to stop the lava - why is there not a .. er .. trench made - to encourage the lava to flow in this path to the sea
yes one loose ground this way - but maybe one can choose which path and in this way take most of the lava flow away from more sensitive areas
well this is only my thinking - not know if real or possible
thanking you kindly
Cape Town
Interesting to see how steam generated by the lava goes through the wall
What has and is being done, down where the lava crosses Trail A as was, to stop the lava from turning onto and following the trail itself? The engineers must have thought of that. Mustn't they?
It would seem like it could be a good idea to make it easier for the lava to reach the sea near the old farmstead off route 427 to relieve pressure from
making any kind of move westward towards the city of Grindavik.
The farm is almost certainly doomed, sad to say. I believe authorities have already stated there is no reason or way to prevent this. Grindavik is a good 5 miles away from the volcano and, as shown in the vid, has a couple solid natural barriers in the way. If Grindavik does become threatened by lava my (admittedly inexpert) guess is that it would take at least a year or two for that to develop. Some geologists think that this is just the start of a new active period along the rift system that is causing the current eruption, and that other vents or volcanos could open up in the area. We just returned from visiting Iceland and spent a couple days visiting the volcano and Grindavik. There are several other dormant, but not extinct, volcanos much closer to the town. It’s also worth noting that the town is sitting on an old lava flow. It’s literally surrounded by lava fields. I believe they were threatened by lava flows within the last 100 years (but it might be a little longer than that). Either way, the evidence of the areas fiery past is everywhere you look. I doubt any one in the town thinks there won’t be a day it happens again, or thinks there is any way to prevent it.
@@ebo360 Thank you for the reply. I'm a retired mining geologist so I have a general understand of the volcanic processes taking place but I'm not a volcanologist by any stretch of the imagination. Like you just pointed out the farmstead is most likely going to be lost so wasting time and resources trying to postpone the enviable should be ruled out. Now protect the town of Grindavik and other vital facilitates and resources should be a prime area of using governmental efforts, resources and monies to protect, harden or divert the lava intrusion away from these vital items.
@@richardlong3745 you get so much more understanding of the dynamics by actually being there and seeing the lay of the land. Lava doesn’t act exactly like water does, but it will mainly find the easiest way to follow gravity. The terrain will make flowing fairly directly to the ocean the most obvious and open path for quite a while. But, if it continues for as long as some say, it will eventually fill that area and start to push out across the plains around it. But I still think it will be a matter of years, not months, for Grindavik to begin to worry, if at all. On the other hand, if this is the beginning of a shield volcano then the entire width of the peninsula could be threatened given enough time. There are several shield volcanos on Iceland that have formed over the millennia, and they can be massive. There’s a well known example of how massive a shield volcano can be. We call it the big island of Hawaii.
I wish you show us the machines building the wall...
doesn't it ever warm up in Iceland?
Creek and crick are regional terms here. Most people would say creek
Be sure to keep us updated as this lava progresses. We don't want it going towards the city.
It most likely will
And faster than before due to the airheads thinking they can stop it with a dirt wall ha ha
@@truthjustice5144 I don't think they are trying to stop it this time.
That dirt wall looks like it's oriented to "deflect" lava down a preferred valley.
We shall see.
Why is it smoking on the other side of the wall?
Gosh the lava looks almost like a sea.
A new wall in Iceland to keep out the white walkers. Where's Jon when you need him?
Looks like it's more of a walking trail than a serious attempt to halt the flow of lava. They could have put some effort into it, if it was truly meant to achieve anything.
I am beginning to think that no one has seen the movie Volcano. The location of the volcano is ridiculous but the fight Anne Heche’s character had to make it understood that magma/lava won’t stop until it reaches the ocean seems kind of relevant.
Ask a volcanologist what they think of that movie, and be prepared to hear derisive laughter and swearing.
Goodin frog I need you to get closer to the Volcano this parking lot stuff is just not compelling I know it's a little dangerous to get closer to the Volcano but if you take the proper precautions you'll be fine
Wow, I wonder how long that wall will last
I wouldn't be any were near that volcano when it goes boom
How many acres have been lost to lava beds?