"... it would be frustrating not to see it." I like the attitude of these people. That's exactly how I felt when Gunung Agung was getting ready to erupt in 2017. Many people fled, Amlapura looked like a ghost town - but everyone in our neighbourhood stayed. We just wanted to see it - and it was fantastic. Life-changing.
@@JustIcelandicExcellent videos gylfi! Just watching the guys fighting to reinforce the berms near the blue lagoon .Sending you all best wishes from Ireland.
I am seeing this for the 1st time in Sep 2024, and it was absolutely fascinating I thought I knew a lot about Katla and Hekla from my time in Iceland, but I wish I had seen this presentation back then. I went on a tour of the 1918 flood remains then, and it was lovely to hear the place names pronounced correctly after all these years. 😁 This one is going in my permanent collection.
Finally got around to watching this, after seeing it mentioned in your Geldingadalir coverage. What a wonderful documentary! As a geologist living in Washington State, where our biggest volcanic hazards are also floods, I really enjoyed seeing how well your people are prepared for the next time she goes. As a side note, I rather enjoyed listening to the Icelandic. It’s soothing to my ears. 🙂
Special thanks to the makers for adding English subtitles to this wonderful documentary. Places around the planet that face possible natural disaster situations could learn a lot from the preparations taken by people and civil defense organizations in Iceland. I wondered how accurate the series "Katla" was. It was great to learn the history and facts about this area. Thank you to all who made this possible.
Thanks :) I didn't find anything from old Icelandic stories supporting the script, at lest it's very far fetched into ancient stories, but the eruption scenario could be very real, and many of the scenes are looking like the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption.
I watched the Netflix series when it came out, but found this documentary only now. Many thanks for the upload! I was particularly impressed by volcanologist Guðrún Larsen. I feel I could listen to her talking for hours even though I don't speak Icelandic...
I subbed a few months ago on your current coverage of magma fissures. I found this documentary on your channel and just watched it all. Excellent work by Lára Ómarsdóttir; thank her and/or you for the English CC. TL;DR I happened to watch a 2021 Netflix series called "Katla," an 8-episode mystery of sorts. That Netflix show is why I watched this documentary -- the wide shots and establishing shots in the Netflix "Katla" are _stunning_ and jaw-dropping. Unbelievably beautiful and stark at the same time.
Yes they wide shots were good but I missed the medium shots in order to bring the town closer the volcano, perhaps due to expensive CGI :) but it would not surprise me if the used the real Eyjafjallajökull footage to create the Vík scenario in the wide shots...and thanks for subbing :)
Thank you for putting this up. It will be really helpful to our students who are taking a course that includes Icelandic volcanic eruptions. Having the subtitles is so helpful.
Just watching, excellent doc. I was near Vik the past year and I was speechless hearing the history there. Since my trip to Iceland, I keep on searching and wanting to know and understand better this fascinating world and this chanel is being tremendous! Thank you so much for sharing ☀️
I found this documentary and the Netflix series just released because of watching your videos. Fascinating facts and fascinating fiction based on the facts. If the pandemic doesn't cancel our trip yet again, we will be visiting Iceland in one year!
I love Iceland- I wish I could live there but that's never going to happen. I enjoyed this documentary, even though it was mainly in Icelandic. The subtitles allowed me to follow what was going on though I did pick up on a few words here and there.
Katla's eruption reminds me of what the USGS is fearing will happen at Mount Rainer in Washington state. Mount Rainer has 25 glaciers and holds more snow than all the Cascade volcanoes combined. If it erupts, it will cause floods too and Tacoma will be in danger (which is built on an old lahar site from a previous eruption of Mt. Rainier). The thing is there hasn't been a massive eruption there in 500 years. There have been small eruptions seen on the summit in the 1800s. Even if it let off some steam in the 1800s like Mount St. Helens did, that doesn't mean that the next eruption won't be massive if she decides to erupt. It could be like it was with Mt. St. Helen's 1980 eruption where it was a VEI 5.
We have active volcanoes in the mainland USA. One of the most active is Mount Saint Helens in our state of Washington. It formed a glacier in its caldera, which worried the geologists and seismologists, for the reason of glacial flooding, as you said. However, a lava dome formed under the glacier, pushing it up and breaking it apart, before causing it to melt at a reasonable rate without flooding. Of course, the lava dome is still there, still growing, and it remains to be seen what it will do. EDIT: Wonderful documentary, worth sitting through and reading all the captions. Like living in the western U.S. in the "Ring of Fire," it's all about being prepared for the worst while hoping for the best. Thanks so much, Just Icelandic!
Just came here to see your documentary after watching the short version. Very interesting as I am a bit of an amateur geologist (studied at university but never worked in the field) with particular interest in volcanoes. Thanks so much. New sub here. 👍
your channel, since the Grindavik eruption began has become a regular stopping point. would it be possible to do a dubbed version without subtitles of this video?
Not at this moment but my plan was to replace it with my own footage after this summer since it's a bit long for YT scale, so yes, I'm always thinking about improvements for my channel :)
Still waiting for a long video about Askja or Oræfajoküll. Just like Katla, Oræfajökull is a gigantic volcano that is consistent in going big for an eruption. Oræfajökull also happens to be close to a couple of towns and/or villages with plenty of people within striking distance. Besides the glacial outbursts, a main eruption from Oræfajökull develops very, very quickly once it sets to erupt leaving people with less time to evacuate, making it one of the most dangerous volcanoes in Iceland.
Hi and thanks for your comment but I'm always on the lookout for material for this section of my channel - some is available in Icelandic but often old with low quality footage, plus it's harder to get audience for non English documentaries, even it's translated. So....I have this dream :) to shoot the footage my self and do interviews in English because it's not that hard to find interesting people and scientists with remarkable stories. So I look at is practice to work on some translations in order to make my own, straight to the point, mini-documentaries by time, in 4K and from drone as well. So be patient for a while but my passion for photography comes from the Icelandic volcanoes and it's my favourite subject in our nature. But until I'm able to make my own material I will continue to translate interesting facts and new but my next video will cover the ongoing events in the Reykjanes peninsula. And thanks for your visit :)
@@JustIcelandic Thank you for making this video. I'm from Australia & have been watching the Reykjavic volcano (I don't know its real name sorry) since it first started it's vents before it grew the crator. I look at the videos on youtube everyday to see what its doing now. I just finished watching the Katla series & didn't even realise at the time that Katla is a real volcano so I was very excited when this video popped up in my recommendations. Although I don't speak Icelandic I read every word of the subtitles & I couldn't stop watching it. It is a beautiful documentary about a massive volcano in a beautiful country. I hope I get to visit there sometime. Best wishes & keep up the good work.
Awesome documentary! I went in 2019 and I've been to 31 days. Would you say if Katla or Eyjafjallajökull get erupted, and i would be in Skogafoss, would be a safe place?
Yes, you would be safe. West of Vik is safe. East of Kikjubæjarklaustur is safe. In fact it is very likely that Vik will be safe, but we never say never.
We have active volcanoes in the mainland USA. One of the most active is Mount Saint Helens in our state of Washington. It formed a glacier in its caldera, which worried the geologists and seismologists, for the reason of glacial flooding, as you said. However, a lava dome formed under the glacier, pushing it up and breaking it apart, before causing it to melt at a reasonable rate without flooding. Of course, the lava dome is still there, still growing, and it remains to be seen what it will do.
There is a full-length version of this short clip on Mayday Air Crash Investigations, but in this 3-miinute video is a synopsis of what happened to a commercial airliner that unknowingly flew through a cloud of volcanic ash. No narration, visual effects tell the story, with orchestral accompaniment only. The full version is worth watching, as it describes events in detail. ua-cam.com/video/UPADE-CScF0/v-deo.html
@@5Heth Yes, they started growing trees in the last 50 years, to fix the desertification of Iceland. But it will take time to cover Iceland in trees, right now it's only a few small patches...
In 1918 Astrid Lindgren was a kid. Later when she wrote Brothers Lionheart she named the fire breathing dragon Katla. That can't be a coincidence :-)
Instablaster...
"... it would be frustrating not to see it." I like the attitude of these people. That's exactly how I felt when Gunung Agung was getting ready to erupt in 2017. Many people fled, Amlapura looked like a ghost town - but everyone in our neighbourhood stayed. We just wanted to see it - and it was fantastic. Life-changing.
Beautiful country, beautiful people, beautiful culture. Thank you for upload and subtitles!
Thanks for watching, more on the way very soon :)
@@JustIcelandicExcellent videos gylfi! Just watching the guys fighting to reinforce the berms near the blue lagoon .Sending you all best wishes from Ireland.
I am seeing this for the 1st time in Sep 2024, and it was absolutely fascinating
I thought I knew a lot about Katla and Hekla from my time in Iceland, but I wish I had seen this presentation back then. I went on a tour of the 1918 flood remains then, and it was lovely to hear the place names pronounced correctly after all these years. 😁 This one is going in my permanent collection.
Thanks and enjoy :)
Finally got around to watching this, after seeing it mentioned in your Geldingadalir coverage. What a wonderful documentary! As a geologist living in Washington State, where our biggest volcanic hazards are also floods, I really enjoyed seeing how well your people are prepared for the next time she goes. As a side note, I rather enjoyed listening to the Icelandic. It’s soothing to my ears. 🙂
Thanks a lot :) reg the Icelandic, it's actually not for all but luckily it's working for me :) And welcome :)
Special thanks to the makers for adding English subtitles to this wonderful documentary. Places around the planet that face possible natural disaster situations could learn a lot from the preparations taken by people and civil defense organizations in Iceland. I wondered how accurate the series "Katla" was. It was great to learn the history and facts about this area. Thank you to all who made this possible.
Thanks :) I didn't find anything from old Icelandic stories supporting the script, at lest it's very far fetched into ancient stories, but the eruption scenario could be very real, and many of the scenes are looking like the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption.
This was absolutely fascinating. An excellent mix of cultural and scientific perspectives, very well done!
Awesome, thank you!
I watched the Netflix series when it came out, but found this documentary only now. Many thanks for the upload!
I was particularly impressed by volcanologist Guðrún Larsen. I feel I could listen to her talking for hours even though I don't speak Icelandic...
I agree, she sound like she's "got it" :)
An excellent documentary! Thank you so much for sharing!
My pleasure!
I hope Katla is not too mean in her next eruption.. keep safe lovely Icelandic people.. best wishes and love from New Zealand xx
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Thank you for uploading this video about Katla. Iceland is a very beautiful country.
Thank you for visiting my channel :)
I subbed a few months ago on your current coverage of magma fissures. I found this documentary on your channel and just watched it all. Excellent work by Lára Ómarsdóttir; thank her and/or you for the English CC.
TL;DR
I happened to watch a 2021 Netflix series called "Katla," an 8-episode mystery of sorts. That Netflix show is why I watched this documentary -- the wide shots and establishing shots in the Netflix "Katla" are _stunning_ and jaw-dropping. Unbelievably beautiful and stark at the same time.
Yes they wide shots were good but I missed the medium shots in order to bring the town closer the volcano, perhaps due to expensive CGI :) but it would not surprise me if the used the real Eyjafjallajökull footage to create the Vík scenario in the wide shots...and thanks for subbing :)
Thank you for putting this up. It will be really helpful to our students who are taking a course that includes Icelandic volcanic eruptions. Having the subtitles is so helpful.
Glad you liked it but it's a lot of good info here that sadly lacks translation but I'm doing my best :)
Die Konfrontation von Feuer und Wasser setzt unaubliche Kräfte frei. Thanks for the upload❤
And here in Vik we still waiting, we got an alert 6 weeks ago but nothing happened. Fagradalsfjall is about to start his own show again soon. 🎉🎉
Even the island Eldey, update coming in 1 hr..
A truly wonderful documentary, thank you for sharing!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent documentary. I was just in Iceland and we went to Vik. Iceland is other worldly. An amazing place.
Enjoy :)
Just watching, excellent doc. I was near Vik the past year and I was speechless hearing the history there. Since my trip to Iceland, I keep on searching and wanting to know and understand better this fascinating world and this chanel is being tremendous! Thank you so much for sharing ☀️
Excellent! I love geologists and vulcanologists. Living in a high risk country myself I totally appreciate the preparedness in Iceland 👍🏽
Well said!
I found this documentary and the Netflix series just released because of watching your videos. Fascinating facts and fascinating fiction based on the facts. If the pandemic doesn't cancel our trip yet again, we will be visiting Iceland in one year!
Thank you and welcome to Iceland :)
This is brilliant, thank you for sharing this video. It's very informative and interesting.
Glad it was helpful 👍
Thank you for sharing. Katla is a real monster volcano. It is very scary but Iceland is a beautiful country
We agree!
I love Iceland- I wish I could live there but that's never going to happen. I enjoyed this documentary, even though it was mainly in Icelandic. The subtitles allowed me to follow what was going on though I did pick up on a few words here and there.
Glad u liked it and welcome :)
Katla's eruption reminds me of what the USGS is fearing will happen at Mount Rainer in Washington state. Mount Rainer has 25 glaciers and holds more snow than all the Cascade volcanoes combined. If it erupts, it will cause floods too and Tacoma will be in danger (which is built on an old lahar site from a previous eruption of Mt. Rainier). The thing is there hasn't been a massive eruption there in 500 years. There have been small eruptions seen on the summit in the 1800s. Even if it let off some steam in the 1800s like Mount St. Helens did, that doesn't mean that the next eruption won't be massive if she decides to erupt. It could be like it was with Mt. St. Helen's 1980 eruption where it was a VEI 5.
We have active volcanoes in the mainland USA. One of the most active is Mount Saint Helens in our state of Washington. It formed a glacier in its caldera, which worried the geologists and seismologists, for the reason of glacial flooding, as you said. However, a lava dome formed under the glacier, pushing it up and breaking it apart, before causing it to melt at a reasonable rate without flooding. Of course, the lava dome is still there, still growing, and it remains to be seen what it will do.
EDIT: Wonderful documentary, worth sitting through and reading all the captions. Like living in the western U.S. in the "Ring of Fire," it's all about being prepared for the worst while hoping for the best. Thanks so much, Just Icelandic!
Thank you for that. I love learning about Iceland.
Very good commentary, history and footage. Thank You. Keep safe. X
Thank you, I will
Excellent and most thorough!!
Glad it was helpful!
Just came here to see your documentary after watching the short version. Very interesting as I am a bit of an amateur geologist (studied at university but never worked in the field) with particular interest in volcanoes. Thanks so much. New sub here. 👍
Welcome aboard and thanks 👍 way more to come :)
This is a great video, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Takk fyrir þetta! A really interesting documentary!
Takk fyrir komuna :)
Fascinating! I was interested to see the school conducts evacuation drills. Here we have fire drills and tornado drills.
Yes I thing I would prefer the volcano over this tornado thing, we never get them here :) scary indeed...
They can be. I've been thru several tornadoes. Two were intense, killing multiple people. Most were not bad.
your channel, since the Grindavik eruption began has become a regular stopping point. would it be possible to do a dubbed version without subtitles of this video?
Not at this moment but my plan was to replace it with my own footage after this summer since it's a bit long for YT scale, so yes, I'm always thinking about improvements for my channel :)
Just watching and enjoying the attached documentary, thank you
My pleasure :)
Awesome video thank you for sharing 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
Soyons philosophes : C'est la Nature !
Welcome :)
Thank you for this.
My pleasure!
I really enjoyed the Katla series on NETFLIX now I'm gonna learn about the actual volcano
Great, bit darker than the actual town, but good though :)
Thank you - very interesting, informative and sobering.
I think u have just watched the netflix show KATLA
Still waiting for a long video about Askja or Oræfajoküll. Just like Katla, Oræfajökull is a gigantic volcano that is consistent in going big for an eruption. Oræfajökull also happens to be close to a couple of towns and/or villages with plenty of people within striking distance. Besides the glacial outbursts, a main eruption from Oræfajökull develops very, very quickly once it sets to erupt leaving people with less time to evacuate, making it one of the most dangerous volcanoes in Iceland.
Hi and thanks for your comment but I'm always on the lookout for material for this section of my channel - some is available in Icelandic but often old with low quality footage, plus it's harder to get audience for non English documentaries, even it's translated. So....I have this dream :) to shoot the footage my self and do interviews in English because it's not that hard to find interesting people and scientists with remarkable stories. So I look at is practice to work on some translations in order to make my own, straight to the point, mini-documentaries by time, in 4K and from drone as well. So be patient for a while but my passion for photography comes from the Icelandic volcanoes and it's my favourite subject in our nature. But until I'm able to make my own material I will continue to translate interesting facts and new but my next video will cover the ongoing events in the Reykjanes peninsula. And thanks for your visit :)
@@JustIcelandic Thank you for making this video. I'm from Australia & have been watching the Reykjavic volcano (I don't know its real name sorry) since it first started it's vents before it grew the crator. I look at the videos on youtube everyday to see what its doing now. I just finished watching the Katla series & didn't even realise at the time that Katla is a real volcano so I was very excited when this video popped up in my recommendations. Although I don't speak Icelandic I read every word of the subtitles & I couldn't stop watching it. It is a beautiful documentary about a massive volcano in a beautiful country. I hope I get to visit there sometime. Best wishes & keep up the good work.
Þakka þér herra👍
Takk fyrir komuna 👍
I saw Katla advertised on Netflix and thought, woohoo, a movie about Iceland and it's volcano and it's mysterious happenings 🤗😳
Yeah, it's a bit dark TV series, but fine though, and welcome :)
Hope you enjoy it :)
@@JustIcelandic I will indeed. I really enjoyed Fortitude from a few years ago too. 🤗
The sudden floods would be most terrifying.
Just loving that language how it sounds. We Finns, have been the slaves of Sweden for hundreds of years. Icelandic language sounds so Finnish!
I've herd that often actually, but in reality, it's far, far from ours, but it's the R sounds that sound similar :)
Icelandic is much more similar to Swedish though!
@@PiousMoltar Yes. Icelandic is what Norwegians and Swedes were speaking 1000 years ago. Their language changed, ours didn´t much.
Awesome documentary! I went in 2019 and I've been to 31 days. Would you say if Katla or Eyjafjallajökull get erupted, and i would be in Skogafoss, would be a safe place?
Yes, you would be safe. West of Vik is safe. East of Kikjubæjarklaustur is safe. In fact it is very likely that Vik will be safe, but we never say never.
We have active volcanoes in the mainland USA. One of the most active is Mount Saint Helens in our state of Washington. It formed a glacier in its caldera, which worried the geologists and seismologists, for the reason of glacial flooding, as you said. However, a lava dome formed under the glacier, pushing it up and breaking it apart, before causing it to melt at a reasonable rate without flooding. Of course, the lava dome is still there, still growing, and it remains to be seen what it will do.
We had ash fall here in Napa County, California from that eruption.
Great documentary.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Wow - viking language!
I hope to visit iceland in future. Especially the plate separation area and one of the natural swimming pools.
You should :)
I would love an English version.
Takk firrir að tala um ísland það er flot þarna
Velkominn :)
Lara is gorgeous!
She did a fantastic job and I wish we would get more of those...
There is a full-length version of this short clip on Mayday Air Crash Investigations, but in this 3-miinute video is a synopsis of what happened to a commercial airliner that unknowingly flew through a cloud of volcanic ash. No narration, visual effects tell the story, with orchestral accompaniment only.
The full version is worth watching, as it describes events in detail.
ua-cam.com/video/UPADE-CScF0/v-deo.html
Perhaps they should install warning sirens as is done in the US during tornado season. This would be faster than sending info via sms.
We also have sirens. Everything available is used.
She's waking up.
Might take some time
You cannot see the subs
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Everything should be working, 20k views so far without problems! did you check the sub. button if u are using a computer?
Just tap on cc.
I went to vik in a classtrip 1989 aroudn the same time as there where trouble in bejing, quite the trip for a swedish boy.
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I always wonder I rarely see trees on Iceland, even when I was there it was strange.
They were all chopped down long ago, and sheep prevented new ones to grow...
@@MrZnarffy They do have trees in some places. I've watched videos by the Reykjavic Grapevine where Valur is walking through areas with lots of trees
@@5Heth Yes, they started growing trees in the last 50 years, to fix the desertification of Iceland. But it will take time to cover Iceland in trees, right now it's only a few small patches...
I like this , but the amount of ads is sickening !
Fixed...
@@JustIcelandic ok
Er ekki frekar spurningin hvað geristí háloftunum sem hefur áhrif á sólarljósið og þarmeð veðurfar!
Ohh, hún Lára er svo skyrmælt.
Yes she is :)
I heard this was a super volcano and would have a negative affect on the entire world..?
Yes but Grímsvotn is worse but I have this video here about it...ua-cam.com/video/mN_pcbItgR4/v-deo.html
Island……, JA❣️
Welcome :)
Why don't they call the glacier Katla Glacier?
The part where katla is is named kötlujökull(katla glacier)
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Welcome :)