For those who are interested in geology, these videos are amazing! It's real-time geology. It helps me understand what I see when I'm out in volcanic areas.
I hear ya! I've been cutting core for a few months now, and a lot of it is various basalts. Seeing how different the grains can be one foot to the next makes what I see make so much more sense!
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VQhjkemEyUo.html This is one of a great series of geology lectures by a prof in Central Washington, USA. The USGS also has a long series of public lectures pertaining to geology and many are on volcanoes as they run 5 different observatories. And lets not forget all the videos of Kilauea from 3 years ago.
I live in Victoria British Columbia on Vancouver Island. Beaches here are "littered" with chunks of lava. I have many cool ones with amazing imprints on them. The closest volcano is Mount Baker, 75 miles away! That's a long way for those bits of lava to fly!!!
This massive natural occurrence isn’t getting much media time in the uk, if any, thank you to all my Icelandic brothers and sisters for the fantastic videos
"@Adamski Housden" If it isn't related to GLOBAL WARMING it isn't worth it talking about. Those are the same fanatics that said that by 2013 there wouldn't be snow anymore !
@@markspc1 or hornets of murder. lives that don't matter. trumpolopolous. covid variant #1,000. a natural event that isn't harming anyone just doesn't draw in sponsorship money like those forementioned events.
They will...they will blame this on Climate Change when their ready. I believe their watching it and when the right time comes...wham!! We’re going to hear nothing but this volcano and how it destroyed our earth..... these people are sick!! Nuts!!
@@Drabkikker This is an awesome question! 1/2 comes from what in dynamics is called SUVAT equations, this is a fancy pythagorean system, saying simply if you have a graph x-axis is time, y-axis velocity (speed with direction) then if something accelerates from 0 to final velocity you have a shape of a triangle and the area underneath is distance S and equation for area of triangle is 1/2 x base x height when here you dealing with change of speed in time the area under is distance! Check out SUVAT equations if you are interested - no more than calculator is needed I promise :) And always remember - There are NO silly questions!!!!
Yes, USA news will never be good or reliable again. Really disappointed with it all. Thank God for private citizens and their devices.........and technology.
Normally the MSM would report as it's natural and eye catching. All the good things for a slow news day. The reason they do not I suspect is that this would water down the Covid propaganda that needs to be up 24x7. It would remind people of travel and of other countries and of nature. Can't have healthy thinking like that now can we?
Actually, Grimsvotn is pretty regular, or predictable, in its activity because of what kind of volcano it is. It's likely unrelated to this event. Especially since it's part of a different volcanic region in Iceland.
@@rickvaneijck3016 Nah, Grimsvötn's Eruptions are usually pretty small. The main hazards of Grimsvötn are the ash in the air and to a certain extent jökulhlaups. Grimsvötn's eruption might be pretty small, since it already had it's bigger eruption in 2011. On the other handit could be a bigger one since this century there hasn't been a small eruption unlike before previous eruptions. However, that Grimsvötn pulls a Laki 2.0 is highly unlikely, he does that once every thousand years and as you can tell we are around 750 years too early for that.
@@PigletCNC You're right that Grimsvotn is 'regular', but the amount of seismic activity that precluded the Reykyenes eruption, the increased seismic activity at Grimsvotn now, and the coincidence of this activity to the peninsular activity suggests that they may in fact be correlated. If Grimsvotn is being fed by this new magma, it would logically take a few months for it to work it's way there, which seems to be what we're seeing. If we start seeing occasional secondary eruptions of volcanoes like Grims and Hekla that inject gas and particles into the stratosphere (only 9-13km above Iceland) in addition to an increase in gas production by the peninsular activity that could potentially last decades, this could indeed be an influential period of volcanic activity in our history.
@@nacnud_ I'm pretty sure it would feel like a water balloon because the inside must still be liquid. Only the outside cools and oxydizes. I think the blobs of lava are also mostly about as heavy as a person or even a car :)
There is no media coverage here in Australia about this at all. I have been following this spectacle since it started. I bet if you said the volcano had COVID it would be beamed worldwide. Thanks to all for the epic coverage.
There has been coverage of this in the media that I read. Even though it is in a faraway country and there are currently 40 other active erupting volcanos (as like most of the time).
Normally the MSM would report as it's natural and eye catching. All the good things for a slow news day. The reason they do not I suspect is that this would water down the Covid propaganda that needs to be up 24x7. It would remind people of travel and of other countries and of nature. Can't have healthy thinking like that now can we?
@@bobmcbob4399 There is clearly no healthy thinking being done in this comment. Will you numbskulls ever give it a rest? You think a fucking volcano in the middle of nowhere is going to be the main headline internationally while it erupts for months on end? Believe it or not, a virus killing hundreds of thousands of people is marginally more important than some lava flows. Your tin foil hat will surely protect you though.
@@173jaSon371 Not the virus doing that, only Influenze A and B like every year. Annual death stats back this up. The Vaccine is killing loads of people through bloodclots though.
That's about the height of the Willis Tower in Chicago, or the Empire State Building in NYC, before accounting for the antenna. Insane. And people just walk over to it and look. Mind blown.
There's a pandemic...thousands of Icelanders in general have the virus. People should be staying home instead of being out and about spreading illnesses. I am (was) on an OR list for urgent surgery...now because sick people are running all over, there is a lock down and I am forced to sit here and be ill...just because people want to go cook hotdogs over hot rocks. I could go on, but I won't. STAY HOME!!!
@@morgancalvi6675 Are you waiting for that operation in Iceland? There is no lockdown here now! The infection rate is very low with 3 new identified infections last 24 hours. Hiking outdoors is not connected to major infections anywhere in the world. So hiking to see this magnificient event is as low risk as can be. Bigger chance to twist your ancle. PS. I sincerely hope you get your surgery, no matter where your are. And I wish you all possible recovery from the bottom of my heart.
@@bjorgolfurhavarsson3984 thank you for the kind wishes, but please, stop. Look at the statistics. People from other countries are going to Iceland, negative, leaving to go other places, now positive. You can be asymptomatic and still have COVID. Iceland has thousands of cases...please don't act like everything is hunky dory. Traveling all over like this is how these things get out of control. NO PUBLIC HEALTH official EVER said it's ok to start running around...no one will get sick from COVID. So, please, don't argue. Please.
That's almost as tall as the Empire State building and that thing stands 1,454 feet (443.2 m) My eyes just got bigger the more I seen it going up and up and up. That's amazing
@@be5346 Holy crap that's bigger than The Empire State Building then...I would have loved to have been able to see that first hand...It would have been amazing and terrifying all together. :)
We keep missing Steamboat Geyser and will never see the great Waimangu (only erupted for a few years around 1900) but this actually dwarfs Steamboat (300-400 ft) and is the size of Waimangu (1000 feet with 1500 foot superbursts). But at least your wonderful footage has allowed us to see this! Thanks so much for posting!
Wrong way to look at it. Shouldnt be in harms way is the correct way to put it. Nature comes first should be every humans oitlook. We are all at its mercy 💡👌
@@morgancalvi6675 it is the little picture that all videos have before you click them. Like for example in this one is the picture of the biggest eruption the volcano had in the video. By clickbait we refer to those videos that explicitly edit the picture and in reality, it's not like that in the video. For an example, here the thumbnail could have been edited to attract people to watch the video and maybe in the video such a eruption never happened or was just half the size (which in this case it was not like that). Lastly I would like to add, not all thumbnails are pictures from the same video (and you most probably have seen so in videos that have some text in the thumbnail) Hope this helps!
sure, yet watch Mount Etna in what it is called paroxysmic eruption... in the beginning of march the fountain rose to 1000+m, for half an hour, on several days. you will find footage elsewhere!
@@monnoo8221 Etna is known for her paroxysms. This started as a gentle overflow escaping underground passages. For the pressure to increase like this and most vents subsiding is a change in character. Who knows, it might even be in competition with Etna next week.
Would technically suffice if you just dropped the Ring in the lava river flowing out of the caldera? Or even just a pool of lava yeeted out by the lava geysir?
And this is why we don’t stand next to volcanoes and watch them like it’s some kind of movie. So unpredictable. Can you imagine if those people were there like they were????
Top of the fountain may reach 400 meters counting from the sea level, but the elevation of the vent is 210-220 meters, so the actual *height* of the fountain is 200 meters max. As a reference, the hill on the right is 70 meters tall counting from the bottom of the valley - when the valley was empty.
My first impression was that this was far short of 400m, but timing the fall of the ejected lava at a maximum of about 8 seconds translates to upwards of 313m. However, given aerodynamic drag the 8 seconds is artificially longer than it would be in a vacuum so I'd put the max height at something less than 300m. Still very impressive to be sure and higher than all but about a couple dozen man-made structures on Earth.
The speed of sound (Mach 1) is 343 m/s. That lava is flying at around Mach 0.5 already. I want to see the moment the lava breaks the sound barrier and makes a sonic boom :D
@@asymptoticsingularity9281 I agree and its funny they don't believe in God because they can't see him, yet they are so fast to believe in mother nature is real, but yet can't see mother nature, so how they know she's real?
Looks similar to our own rift zone eruptions here on the Big Island of Hawaii. Iceland and the BI are considered sister islands half a world apart . . .
@@duncanratcliffe766 LOL I live here on the Big Island. You don't think I am well versed on these matters? Your general statement is correct. However, the eruptions that occurred here in 2018 that took out over 700 homes were along Kilauea's southeastern rift zone (locally known as "lower east rift zone") and the initial outbreaks that occurred all along the rift spouted tall fountains of lava just like this one in Iceland.
I'd estimate the height of the arch to be at the lower end of the given range, but it definitely is impressing. The Geldingadalir volcano seems to be getting into gear ever more.
Wow! As a child I would be thrilled watching my Mom & Dad shoot off fire works, especially their "Roman Candles"...could we call this an "Icelandic Candle"? Most spectacular. These fountains are so bright, and short lived, I can't help but wonder if the International Space Station was positioned just right in a night time fly-over the astronauts might see, enjoy, this like the rest of us earthbound mortals can...smile now.
It's a good thing the winds aren't blowing those hot cinders very far, and there aren't any trees or brush nearby, or else there'd be fires to worry about. Hope the visitors are staying further away from downwind, whichever thst happens to be.
@@timweather3847 if those cinders are going up that high, winds could disperse the gasses to safe levels but wouldn't cool the cinders by much, and those rocks could fall quite a distance away
At the northern latitude, gravity is about 32.2 feet per second per second. Figure the height of the lava fountain at 1/4 mile or 1320 feet, we can readily calculate that it took 9 seconds for the lava splatter to reach that height. The initial velocity of that lava splatter is 9 X 32.2 = 290 feet per second. Yes, I am rounding.
It's hard to imagine how gigantic this is, I was surprised by the regular fountain when I was there a few week before. That was already like a tall building. Glad no one died because of this
Hi, thanks for this amazing footage. I'm in Iceland in three weeks for photography and wondered if you could advise how to get to the location ? I will have a 4x4. Any help much appreciated
