Good to hear your busy Gylfi and I agree this is only just starting. Hope you are well and you are sounding in good health and spirits as always stay safe and take care of yourself and Mrs Gylfi ❤ from the UK 🇬🇧 to Iceland 🇮🇸
Thank you for the update Gylfi. Really appreciate all the hard work you do so that we can keep abreast of the developments without all the hype. Still hoping for the best outcome for everyone concerned. Sending love and greetings to everyone in Iceland from Darwin, Australia … 🥰🌴🌴🌴
Big credit to emergency crews and the construction crews. Its incredibly common look at a live camera and see them working their butts off. Eruption or not. Their dedication is something for Icelanders to be proud of
Their dedication to the cause really moves me. It reminds that some things are worth fighting for despite the fact it might look like a long shot. I consider them heroes and am hopeful they are highly regarded in Iceland for their tireless efforts. Thank you Gylfi for your always thoughtful coverage. I did catch your last minute update.
There's another thermal plant in the south of the peninsula. If I was Iceland's government, I would be busy building a new pipeline to make sure that there is redundancy. In Québec, our electrical network has a serious amount of redundancy for that exact same reason. We heat our homes with electricity. We simply cannot risk a single point of failure shutting down power for hundreds of thousands of peoples. We had our own wakeup call in 1998 when a massive ice storm hit us and brought down hundreds of kilometers of of lines. At one point, a single high voltage line was all that was left to power Montreal. We just barely avoided a worse case scenario. Iceland needs to take steps to fortify its heating system.
Another exciting volcano. Your reporting and commentary is the best. I love your other videos showing the beauty and the towns, villages and of Reykjavik itself. Thank you.
I’d love to hear you talk about how, earlier this year the government was going to buy out the citizens of Grindavik but now it’s possible they may be able to move back. Did the buyout already happen and if so, do the citizens have to return the money to get their house back or just buy it back from the government?
There was a comment in a stream which rung a bell in me: Svartsengi may end up as a man made crater, surrounded by berms and thick layers of cooling lava.
Love the conversation on how to redo the parking lot... Some of those options could only be considered, if it were suggested by an Icelander😁😁😁... Maybe they could charge extra for the car warming features in the winter ❄️!!!
Thank you, Gylfi. It seems to me that Icelandic volcanologists are getting very good at following magma under the ground. Yes, this eruption was "early" by a week or a month, but I'm a native of California and have understood for 50 years that those in the news media who tell us that this earthquake fault or that volcanic eruption is "overdue," know less than they pretend to know. Your Icelandic video is the best I've seen on UA-cam. 🇺🇸🧙🏽♂️
This is a great video. Thank you. I appreciate you presenting all of the scientific opinions that are going around currently. It truly is going to be exciting to see how it turns out. Your footage, as usual, is stunning.
One of my friends goes to Iceland almost yearly… every time he goes the volcano stops. So he’s due back again in may. So the volcano will stop by then. I joke that the Icelanders turn the tap off before he goes.
Thank you for your insights, Gylfi. I don't envy the pressure that the scientists must be under to make accurate predictions about eruptions. They know much more than we do, but mother nature holds her cards tightly.
1+ year of talks about "it will stop/relocate"... and here we are, with Number 10. I doubt it will stop, until it actually does. I doubt it will relocate, until it actually does. I mean, yes, it relocated like 3 times already (if we also count the first 3 eruptions), but why would it, given that easy to break channels now exist? But a relocation could also go horribly wrong, unless it goes back to geldingadalir to bubble away and just burn mbl webcams. And regarding the inflow: the curve (for land uplift) is almost identical to the previous eruption, which would imply identical circumstances. I dont know... just as the expectation for "mid december" made little sense given the land uplift rate, this somehow doesnt add up. (in the end, we got the eruption when we reached the same land uplift as the last 2 times, adjusted for different starting height - give or take a bit, I just checked to make sure.) I just hope, that "whoever is in charge" doesnt stop building needed protections/berms etc. because there are thoughts that this might stop. One more ruption like this, with similiar flow, and the berms wont keep the blue lagoon and powerplant safe anymore, given how high the stuff already piled up right now. There was a time where those in charge also thought that Grindavik was safe, until it wasnt, and pure luck (that the fissure inside the town did dry up quickly) saved the town. With stuff like this, I would argue: expect and prepare for the worst, if it doesnt happen, good.
Have they ever discussed putting a big barrier around the blue Lagoon with a path to divert any Lava ?? Sorry if it's a stupid question but I am new to your channel and was just wondering ?? Thank You for another great video !! 📸 Your info and photography is so informative and interesting and beautiful !!
Thank you for giving such balanced reporting while also showing off the beauty of Iceland. The Blue Lagoon might be the most well-known attraction of Iceland, but you are showing us so much more of your country. Iceland is not a one trick pony. Greetings from the temperature challenged country, Australia.
Have to give some respect to anyone in the volcanologist community who are speaking out about future forecasts. Iceland has one of if not the most complex volcanic systems in the world. No one is sure if there is a hotspot under Iceland or the mid-Atlantic rift right here for some reason allowed much more magma to intrude. The traditional view that Iceland is a mid-oceanic rift with a hotspot underneath, could be that it’s an easy place for a hot spot to develop. Studies of the western US in the Great Basin where the crust is being pulled and stretched was through to have formed the Yellowstone hotspot & Colombia flood basalts. However the clockwise rotation of the continental crust due to the transition from the cascade subduction zone to the transverse San Andreas fault is not a rift zone. Further more evidence that’s been shifted and hidden by the rotation of the crust both points towards an offshore hotspot making landfall and casts doubts. The bend in the Snake River plain is the most high profile example of this mystery. Iceland being on a mid-ocean ridge and potentially a hotspot produces stratovolcanoes as well which is highly unusual for the type of basalt rich magmas that come from rifts and hotspots. Perhaps the development of Iceland into the size it is and its micro plates play a role in getting continental type explosive andicite lava into systems like Hekla. Or perhaps it has something to do with its two magma chambers that remelt andicitic rocks which still shouldn’t be there. The basaltic andicitic lava with a much higher silica content has in other volcanic systems been attributed to basalt melting continental crust. What stands is the theory of heavy minerals crystallizing in the magma chamber leaving behind silica rich deposits. However this seems like a good educated guess based on a lot of research & combined knowledge of a lot of very smart people. Iceland is quite a mystery as far as volcanically active regions go. The mid-Atlantic rift to the south of Iceland seems to have much more significant eruptive activity to the point it’s filled in the middle of the rift and raised the seabed. While at the same time the rift seems to break up around Iceland with volcanic activity going north through the center of Iceland as well as continuing eastward. Jan Myanen Island being the confluence point at the other end which has a stratovolcano. While island groups like the Azores form along fracture zones coming off of oceanic rifts, none stay stationary and are as volcaniclly supercharged as Iceland is.
Great update thanks Gylfi! Volcano modelling sure has come a long way but it's still interesting following the various differences in opinion for the Reykjanes potential.
Is there evidence that the upper magma chamber that has been feeding these eruptions over the last 3-4 years is no longer refilling from below? It seems to me that you want to confirm that before talking about when this series of eruptions is really going to stop, especially for a century or more.
There are 3 Icelandic scientists i would discount. Whomever keeps insisting the eruptions will move west to other set of craters. And the two, who with 3 data points, predicted eruptions to end in August. (Geology hub claimed same 2 days after they released prediction)
luckily 99,9% of the volcanoes in the world have no connection with the active system on the Reykjanes peninsula so the people of Iceland are not bothered by those.
vulcanology is not like math or physics.. you can't run a 'test vulcano' and measure the result. Opinions are certainly a part of the scientific method. As long as they are not misused as 'facts' it's ok to put out opinions so the science community can discuss them.
@@Blackadder75 the problem with those "it might stop" talks is: politics might see this as an incentive to not fund further protective measures... and then... if it doesnt stop? (like, for the last 8 months they are debating this?)
real estate building by mother Earth, I think this will be the new normal for a couple of years. No point trying to fight it or preserve what has been, move house and stay safe! Greetings from down under 👍 🇦🇺
Simply Incredible! Look At That Lava. 🫣 Gylfi, You're One In 393,600 🫶 Absolutely Stunning Footage Again. I Appreciate Your Thinking Explained As Well.
Love your Humor Gylfi😂@2:11. Thank you for the update
Good to hear your busy Gylfi and I agree this is only just starting. Hope you are well and you are sounding in good health and spirits as always stay safe and take care of yourself and Mrs Gylfi ❤ from the UK 🇬🇧 to Iceland 🇮🇸
Thank you for the update Gylfi. Really appreciate all the hard work you do so that we can keep abreast of the developments without all the hype. Still hoping for the best outcome for everyone concerned. Sending love and greetings to everyone in Iceland from Darwin, Australia … 🥰🌴🌴🌴
Great video update. and analysis Take care Gylfie. Sending regards and best wishes from NZ.
Much appreciated!
Big credit to emergency crews and the construction crews. Its incredibly common look at a live camera and see them working their butts off. Eruption or not. Their dedication is something for Icelanders to be proud of
Their dedication to the cause really moves me. It reminds that some things are worth fighting for despite the fact it might look like a long shot. I consider them heroes and am hopeful they are highly regarded in Iceland for their tireless efforts. Thank you Gylfi for your always thoughtful coverage. I did catch your last minute update.
Too many of them are hovering around the advancing lava for no good reason though. I suspect there is a lot of unnecessary machismo going on.
I rely on your videos to give me the truth about the situation in Iceland, thank you Gylfi🥰Stay safe and well ❣️
Thank you for the update.
There's another thermal plant in the south of the peninsula. If I was Iceland's government, I would be busy building a new pipeline to make sure that there is redundancy. In Québec, our electrical network has a serious amount of redundancy for that exact same reason. We heat our homes with electricity. We simply cannot risk a single point of failure shutting down power for hundreds of thousands of peoples. We had our own wakeup call in 1998 when a massive ice storm hit us and brought down hundreds of kilometers of of lines. At one point, a single high voltage line was all that was left to power Montreal. We just barely avoided a worse case scenario. Iceland needs to take steps to fortify its heating system.
Thank you Gylfi. You are a voice of reason amongst the alamist news reports and youtubers videos.
Thanks for the updates and the videos of beautiful Iceland.
Always welcome :)
Great update! Thank you for all the information and of course the simply beautiful footage!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I totally agree!
You're wonderful thank you 😊❤
Another exciting volcano. Your reporting and commentary is the best. I love your other videos showing the beauty and the towns, villages and of Reykjavik itself. Thank you.
Thanks for the update on the scientists’ statements. I hope the hot water pipes survive.
Thanks for the heads up.
Thank you as always for the up to date information that the media in America no longer gives the public. I appreciate your work.
Always good to hear your summations of the scientific community's views for those of us on the other side of the world. Thanks for your hard work.
Greetings from Western Australia, Gylfi. As always, really appreciate your hard work. Hope you are well. Cheers & best wishes to you & yours.👍🏻😊
Thanks for your videos. They are very informative and interesting.
Lynn in Naples FL 😎
Glad you like them!
Many thanks to you for this latest update.
I’d love to hear you talk about how, earlier this year the government was going to buy out the citizens of Grindavik but now it’s possible they may be able to move back. Did the buyout already happen and if so, do the citizens have to return the money to get their house back or just buy it back from the government?
Thank you for this. I hadn’t heard these details.
5:10 holy cow, there are people on the top of that hill. That's waaayyyy too close.
Hope you are well, Gylfi, my friend! Thanks for the video
Thank you for your thoughts on the situation Gylfi! Safe travels down south. We will come visit your island again soon :)
Thank you very much for this update .
A car park on top of the lava...maybe the car will be warm and cozy when you come out to it, but will the tires be fused to the road surface? 😁
They will at least have excellent grip :)
Sorry to hear this is turning out much worse than expected.
There was a comment in a stream which rung a bell in me: Svartsengi may end up as a man made crater, surrounded by berms and thick layers of cooling lava.
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Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!😊
Thanks for watching!
Love the conversation on how to redo the parking lot... Some of those options could only be considered, if it were suggested by an Icelander😁😁😁...
Maybe they could charge extra for the car warming features in the winter ❄️!!!
THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE 👍🙏>>>💚
No problem 👍
OH! Your Thermal road, was it any where near here. Go away Caet. "Okay."
Thank you 🕊🥳💙
Fascinating, take care.
Many thanks :)
Always beautiful videos! Please never stop. Stay safe! ❤
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Welcome 👍
Thanks!
Thank you, Gylfi. It seems to me that Icelandic volcanologists are getting very good at following magma under the ground. Yes, this eruption was "early" by a week or a month, but I'm a native of California and have understood for 50 years that those in the news media who tell us that this earthquake fault or that volcanic eruption is "overdue," know less than they pretend to know.
Your Icelandic video is the best I've seen on UA-cam. 🇺🇸🧙🏽♂️
This is a great video. Thank you. I appreciate you presenting all of the scientific opinions that are going around currently. It truly is going to be exciting to see how it turns out.
Your footage, as usual, is stunning.
Glad it was helpful!
well done...
Welcome :)
One of my friends goes to Iceland almost yearly… every time he goes the volcano stops. So he’s due back again in may. So the volcano will stop by then. I joke that the Icelanders turn the tap off before he goes.
Wait & see mode, I truly hope the lava doesn’t flow over the berms 🤞🤞
WOW! Great crater and bubbling "kettle."
Excellent video!
Many thanks 😊
Ty Gylfi❤
Welcome ❤
Thanks for the update, Gylfi, and best regards from the Arizona desert 🌵 😊
Thank you too and greetings to Arizona🌵
I like the idea of putting the parking for the Blue Lagoon over the lava field so the cars are warm and cozy.
Early bird salute!
Thank you for your insights, Gylfi. I don't envy the pressure that the scientists must be under to make accurate predictions about eruptions. They know much more than we do, but mother nature holds her cards tightly.
Thanks for your conservative interpretation of the science.
1+ year of talks about "it will stop/relocate"... and here we are, with Number 10.
I doubt it will stop, until it actually does.
I doubt it will relocate, until it actually does.
I mean, yes, it relocated like 3 times already (if we also count the first 3 eruptions), but why would it, given that easy to break channels now exist?
But a relocation could also go horribly wrong, unless it goes back to geldingadalir to bubble away and just burn mbl webcams.
And regarding the inflow: the curve (for land uplift) is almost identical to the previous eruption, which would imply identical circumstances.
I dont know... just as the expectation for "mid december" made little sense given the land uplift rate, this somehow doesnt add up. (in the end, we got the eruption when we reached the same land uplift as the last 2 times, adjusted for different starting height - give or take a bit, I just checked to make sure.)
I just hope, that "whoever is in charge" doesnt stop building needed protections/berms etc. because there are thoughts that this might stop. One more ruption like this, with similiar flow, and the berms wont keep the blue lagoon and powerplant safe anymore, given how high the stuff already piled up right now.
There was a time where those in charge also thought that Grindavik was safe, until it wasnt, and pure luck (that the fissure inside the town did dry up quickly) saved the town.
With stuff like this, I would argue: expect and prepare for the worst, if it doesnt happen, good.
Have they ever discussed putting a big barrier around the blue Lagoon with a path to divert any Lava ?? Sorry if it's a stupid question but I am new to your channel and was just wondering ?? Thank You for another great video !! 📸 Your info and photography is so informative and interesting and beautiful !!
"Car park heater - $10"..🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Gylfi!
Thank you for giving such balanced reporting while also showing off the beauty of Iceland. The Blue Lagoon might be the most well-known attraction of Iceland, but you are showing us so much more of your country. Iceland is not a one trick pony.
Greetings from the temperature challenged country, Australia.
Thank you too and greetings to Australia :)
I was thinking that an automatic snow clearing/car warming feature would be a great benefit of a new gravel parking lot.
Thorough and fair as allways
Many thanks :)
Have to give some respect to anyone in the volcanologist community who are speaking out about future forecasts. Iceland has one of if not the most complex volcanic systems in the world. No one is sure if there is a hotspot under Iceland or the mid-Atlantic rift right here for some reason allowed much more magma to intrude. The traditional view that Iceland is a mid-oceanic rift with a hotspot underneath, could be that it’s an easy place for a hot spot to develop. Studies of the western US in the Great Basin where the crust is being pulled and stretched was through to have formed the Yellowstone hotspot & Colombia flood basalts. However the clockwise rotation of the continental crust due to the transition from the cascade subduction zone to the transverse San Andreas fault is not a rift zone. Further more evidence that’s been shifted and hidden by the rotation of the crust both points towards an offshore hotspot making landfall and casts doubts. The bend in the Snake River plain is the most high profile example of this mystery. Iceland being on a mid-ocean ridge and potentially a hotspot produces stratovolcanoes as well which is highly unusual for the type of basalt rich magmas that come from rifts and hotspots. Perhaps the development of Iceland into the size it is and its micro plates play a role in getting continental type explosive andicite lava into systems like Hekla. Or perhaps it has something to do with its two magma chambers that remelt andicitic rocks which still shouldn’t be there. The basaltic andicitic lava with a much higher silica content has in other volcanic systems been attributed to basalt melting continental crust. What stands is the theory of heavy minerals crystallizing in the magma chamber leaving behind silica rich deposits. However this seems like a good educated guess based on a lot of research & combined knowledge of a lot of very smart people. Iceland is quite a mystery as far as volcanically active regions go. The mid-Atlantic rift to the south of Iceland seems to have much more significant eruptive activity to the point it’s filled in the middle of the rift and raised the seabed. While at the same time the rift seems to break up around Iceland with volcanic activity going north through the center of Iceland as well as continuing eastward. Jan Myanen Island being the confluence point at the other end which has a stratovolcano. While island groups like the Azores form along fracture zones coming off of oceanic rifts, none stay stationary and are as volcaniclly supercharged as Iceland is.
There will always be activity on Iceland somewhere. It’s not over…people will just have to adjust to the new normal
If it will continue, I suppose it would be best if the activity moved back to Fagradalsfjall rather than moving westward to Svartsengi or Eldvorp.
Your explanation of the possible scenarios is just fascinating. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great update thanks Gylfi! Volcano modelling sure has come a long way but it's still interesting following the various differences in opinion for the Reykjanes potential.
Is there evidence that the upper magma chamber that has been feeding these eruptions over the last 3-4 years is no longer refilling from below? It seems to me that you want to confirm that before talking about when this series of eruptions is really going to stop, especially for a century or more.
There is no solid ground.
There are 3 Icelandic scientists i would discount. Whomever keeps insisting the eruptions will move west to other set of craters. And the two, who with 3 data points, predicted eruptions to end in August. (Geology hub claimed same 2 days after they released prediction)
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Welcome :)
The radio tower is a neat angle, you can see the buried wire radials coming out like spokes from the bottom of the tower 😊
Only 10? ROFLMAO, can't even buy a chocolate bar for that any more! (slight exaggeration)
Those defensive walls were bound to collapse cause mother nature cantbe stop and this eruptionis producing a massive amount of magma
There are too many shakers and volcanoes worldwide for it to be finished. 🙏 I'm wrong.
luckily 99,9% of the volcanoes in the world have no connection with the active system on the Reykjanes peninsula so the people of Iceland are not bothered by those.
God forbid we lose the Blue Lagoon! Please! Take even more tax payer money to protect our bestest tourist trap!
The eruption’s waning?
Not as fast as to expect....
@@JustIcelandicHopefully The Blue Lagoon will be spared.
Air Drop visitors in ....
If I had known about the problems, I wouldn't have made such a lame joke on the last video. I thought this was a rather harmless pop.
Also, the opinions of my esteemed colleagues at the bestest university in Iceland are worth fuckall. Evidence-based science? Anyone remember that?
vulcanology is not like math or physics.. you can't run a 'test vulcano' and measure the result. Opinions are certainly a part of the scientific method. As long as they are not misused as 'facts' it's ok to put out opinions so the science community can discuss them.
@@Blackadder75 the problem with those "it might stop" talks is: politics might see this as an incentive to not fund further protective measures... and then... if it doesnt stop? (like, for the last 8 months they are debating this?)
The lava is burning everything man-made & you worried about your 'valuable' infrastructure😅. What you are stealing out the land is forbidden to you💤
real estate building by mother Earth, I think this will be the new normal for a couple of years.
No point trying to fight it or preserve what has been, move house and stay safe!
Greetings from down under 👍 🇦🇺
Simply Incredible! Look At That Lava. 🫣
Gylfi, You're One In 393,600 🫶
Absolutely Stunning Footage Again.
I Appreciate Your Thinking Explained As Well.
Again, Thank you so much :) with greetings from the north :)