Keeping people safe is what's most important, everything else is rebuildable. The waiting and watching is very stressful, but the blessing is mother nature has given you time to prepare to the best of your abilities.
Thank you for your timely and informative update. I've given birth to 3 babies who were all overdue by a couple of weeks, and they were all over 9lbs. The waiting and watching and anticipating this eruption's contractions, which have been "false" a few times over the last week or so, and have caused so much chaos and uncertainty in the lives of so many, seem so much harder to get through! I sure hope this volcano birth event, if and when it appears, is not too big a baby for those most vulnerable in Grindavik. 😁🤔🥴
You had THREE at 9 lbs? I salute you! 😁Only had one 8 lb 12 oz so almost there, and he was 4 weeks early. Doc said that Lee figured that he was big enough and wanted to get on with it. If he'd gone full term doc said he would have been well over 10 lbs. He's 6' 5" today so I guess he knew when to come out. But three? My goodness, well done!
Thanks for the update. I love listening to your voice! waiting 4 more days will be hard especially for people from Grindavik, I can't imagine how awful it is for them.
Yeah, I've heard some say they want the eruption to start as that gets rid of all the uncertainty and would possibly allow for residents to return to their homes if the eruption ends up in a favourable location
Yeah that makes sense to me. Waiting for something possibly awful to happen would be pretty hard and you'd want to get it over as soon as you could. Kinda like going to the dentist! haha.. @@Hliarmenn
Thanks for the brief. Looks like even if the eruption was to fizzle out, half the town will have to be rebuild at another site with better geological underpinnings.
If there's that many earthquakes, the ground is very unstable. I'm wondering if there's a connection of plates shifting in Iceland has to do with plates fixing to move in Israel
Appreciate you keeping us informed! I was stationed at Keflavík in the 1980s and remember the wild beauty of your country well, so I have been following the story from the beginning. I want to hope that it does not erupt at all, but then I'd worry about the continued earthquakes making your lives miserable. Hope a small tourist eruption happens to relieve the pressure so it will stop rockin' and rollin' for another century or so. Grindavík has enough recovery needs ahead without having lava on top of it. Best wishes to all and take care of each other.
I hope no one is back in the town who knows we’re the damage will occur and thus time to get away inadequate. Thoughts are with all in the area and the entire country.
Thank you! When we lived some months in Vogar as tourists, we visited Grindavik several times. The last days I returned so often to Grindavik in my memories. It is just so unbelievable what has already happened, and I hope the Magma will just stop and solidify. We miss you Icelanders so much, and we pray for a "þetta reddast".
Using Magma would be a great way to explain relative distance based on situational awareness. "Is that animal a threat? Meh its still like 400m meters away we should be fine..." "Is that magma a threat? Hell yes it is its only 400 meters away we need to get out of here now!"
I am glad that it still has not destroyed the town! I pray that it does not and people can go back to life as it was. With a little repairs. Blessings to all in the part!
@Hliđarmenn • Gylfi: Thanks for the update. I hope the magma decides it wants to avoid Grindavík and picks the North to reach the surface. Not all the residents will be able to return, but the town will still be there.
Thanks for the informations. Sometimes I feel bad because I was so amazed about a new eruption. But I never thought it could be under a town! So we get more as we ask for and sometimes it’s a danger if dreams come true. It was a pleasure to hear and see your video, thanks you for that. Hope the eruption will not taking place or far away to the northeast.
Yeah, this is definitely a far cry from the previous eruptions. Hopefully this intrusion just won't result in an eruption or it finds a really nice place to surface. Thanks for tuning in 😁
The houses in the west of the town are most likely irreparable, and replaceable. What is irreplaceable though is the port. Perhaps you could use your voice to put to the authorities the importance, and urgency, of a barrier around the port. Also, thank you for quickly answering my question about what depth the gas indicates in your very next statement.
That could be the precursor to an eruption as when the eruption starts the 1-2Hz and 2-4Hz lines jump over the 0.5-1Hz line (green, blue and purple line if you're looking at the charts in hraun hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/allarsort.html) Definitely something we should look out for😁
❓️Question: at 4.00 protection wall seems to be open to the north-east side. But there seems to be a gap between the hills. And the probably opening fissure line is right behind those hills. So what's the idea behind? I would have closed this gap first - or is there higher ground between, which we can't see in the picture? Thanks a lot for keeping us all informed!
Ahhh, that's a good call. I think they actually decided to block that area of too as that's basically the only side that can be threatened by lava at this point.
Exiting, or too exiting so to speak! We can understanding the stress you live under. We pray that God will comfort people and save them through this situation. Rom.8:28. God bless Iceland in Jesus Name from Denmark.
So I guess they are going to write off the town if the eruption starts in the red box on your map. It doesn't sound like anyone is going to build barriers to try to save the town. They will only try to save the power plant.
Yeah, it definitely doesn't look good, some experts fear some parts of the town will go under lava. Hopefully they'll start building the barriers for Grindavík before it's too late.
Not writing it off as much as waiting for the intrusion and perhaps an eruption event to end. Then a full assessment of the feasibility of rebuilding can be assessed. Even if an eruption does not occur, the damage from subsidence, uplift and earthquakes is substantial.
@@Gizathecat2 according to Wikipedia it was established as a municipality in 1974 but a town, or fishing village at least, has been there for centuries, having been originally founded by Vikings.
Question - since u live on iceland, if the eruption happens away from town, will the people willingly move back? Will there be repairing & rebuilding? Or will people be unsure....as w the full rebuilding? From my understanding, it's 1% of icelands population that has been displaced & the jobs lost so far.
I think people will go back, but when, I'm not sure. If the eruption surfaces in a favourable spot it might be possible for everyone to return to their homes and for workers to come fix all, pipes, electric cable, etc. pretty soon after the eruption starts. I don't think homes or buildings will be ditched unless they're swallowed by lava of course. This will definitely affect the town's build plans though.
Oh and I listened to this as I had my zoom meeting for work. When u said "it sucks" I had to rewind to see if that's wat u said. I started laughing. Another awesome video.
It seems to me it’s likely the fissures will start to spew lava through one or more of them. Having followed the most recent big island Hawaii events, it’s apparently difficult to predict which fissures will be most active. If there’s an eruption and they succeed in building a 100 foot high wall with various sizes and types of riff raff, that’s successful it would be a FIRST.
Thanks for the updated information. Is it possible that even if the wall around the power plant is built that the magma could destroy part or all of the plant below the surface?
No, I think Just Icelandic hasn't been able to do fly overs as none except residents of Grindavík and the Search and Rescue teams are allowed into town. Drones have also been banned in the region which is weird although I think it's just to prevent people from trying to fly to the town as no one would succeed as the restricted area is so large .
@@HliarmennAFAIK, only emergency and scientific organizations are permitted to fly drones in the area. Just random people are not, presumably to not interfere with the permitted drones.
The long dark unexplained pieces of video are annoying. The actual images of Grindavik are very short and have little explanation. The longer dark images have none at all. I am grateful for what you are doing but sometimes it is just too hard to watch.
Some have said that as soon as an eruption occurs they'd want to return, but in reality it'll most likely be atleast a week until it's safe unless an eruption occurs in a really good spot that has no way of threatening Grindavík.
an unrelated question but maybe you know about this: Why is a part of the Eldvörp lava field (left side at 03:39) so much darker than the rest? Was there once a wildfire that burnt off all the moss cover?
It seems to be because of erosion due to construction in the area of just that for some reason moss can't grow in this area. I actually don't have a definitive answer, would definitely like to know the cause.
@@Hliarmenn It's intruiging because it seems to be confined to just one lava field from the whole fissure. But thanks for providing some possible explanations.
@@Hliarmenn Maybe you can help me out with another question only an native islandic speaker can answer: I need some clarification on the fissure name. Icelandic names are hard in general but now I have seen several variations. Sundahnúkar from Just Icelandic, map(dot)is has it named "Sundhnúkur" and then from somewhere else (I think mbl) "Sundhnúksgígar" (and "Sundhnúkagígar" which is apparently grammatically incorrect). Do they refer to the same features, is there a difference or is just one correct?
@@Vulcano7965 Well, they all refer to the same spot but in a slightly different way. Like, Sundhnúkur, that's refering to the area but instead of describing it as a crater it describes if as a hill or a highpoint. When there's "gígar" or "gígur" in the name it's being described as a crater or a crater complex. So technically, it's not always refering to the same feature, atleast not grammatically. But all these different variations are atleast refering to the same spot, really confusing 😂
It definitely could've but it's highly unlikely it'll do it at this point as the power of the intrusion has gone down a lot. But future intrusions could definitely end up right under the powerplant and even if they wouldn't erupt, they could damage the water reservoir.
