Drone footage shows lava engulfing Grindavík in Iceland
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2024
- Houses caught fire in the fishing town of Grindavík in south-west Iceland after a volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month.
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Authorities evacuated the area after two cracks appeared on the edge of the town. Drone footage from the town shows at least three houses engulfed by fire.
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#Volcano #Grindavik #Iceland #Geology
It's fascinating for me every time to see how nature doesn't care about us
As we do about nature.
Correct. Mankind's true three enemies are primarily silent, overlooked, and traditionally ignored.
the exact reason why i throw my car batteries in the lake
I always go back at that 2004 tsunami video, that will definitely prove weather has no feelings and watches us and picks who needs the best and worst of the weather
@@heinz_fiction You beat me to it. This is nothing compared to what humans do to this earth and everything on it.
i watched this happen during my iceland layover yesterday.. flew into and out of reykjavik around 1530-1800 local time and wondered abt the nearby bldgs as i was taking pics
I'm so sorry for the people that lost their homes. I'm also relieved that more were not destroyed, It's interesting how the lava just stopped. Praying, this is all over with soon. 🙏❤️But afraid there are future fissures that open.
Yea almost like abort now command. Stop sign or command computer generated. I find things like these quite fishy.
‘Engulfing Grindavik’? Three houses burning at the edge of a town with nearly four thousand inhabitants can hardly be described as ‘engulfing’…
The people of Grindavik, and the Icelandic people as a whole, are experiencing enough trauma and heartbreak without irresponsible exaggeration of the facts!
Someone at the Guardian needs to look up the definition of "engulf".
Someone in the comments needs to understand the difference between "engulf" and "engulfing".
That actually brings tears to my eyes.
Pickle smoocher
Hard to believe that the lava solidified at exactly this point, no further movement. The rest of this town was so lucky.
The underground cave system formed during these 3 months of unrest is still the largest disaster. If scientists come to the assessment that the town is prone to collapse, it will still remain a ghost town.
Fissure eruptions tend to consolidate down to a few cones early in an eruption and soon it will be one cone. And as themaster alluded to this is likely the beginning of long period of unrest in this volcanic system that could go on for years and even decades.
Pele always returns.
Hardly engulfing it. You’re journalists, be accurate not sensational
This reminds me back in 2018 when Mount Kilauea erupts and the lava destroy the houses and now the lava in Grindavik is doing the same thing like Mount Kilauea did.
Yeah, Mount Kilauea be trend-setting. 😎
The volcano is in the wrong place! Poor people.
It looks beautiful, glad we can enjoy this rare site. Glad everyone is evacuated and safe, and yes money is lost but I'm sure there will be compensations and people can rebuild.
Having a bunker won’t save you, it will only trap you underneath the lava rock
Where you will be safe from all invaders, and warm for the rest of your life. Iceland protects her own.
There hasn't been any volcanic activity in this area for 800 years.
It's annoying seeing how often people ask why someone would live so close to a volcano.
Answer: because there hasn't been one there for the last eight centuries! 🙄
You may ask back if there is any place NOT close to a volcano in Iceland. Which is a big volcano itself actually.
@@prompt4196 No offense intended but the "Iceland is one big volcano" myth needs to be adjusted. That's like saying the United States is nothing but cattle country.
Only 25% of Iceland is considered prone to volcanic activity.
Best wishes from Vermont (no volcanoes, but plenty of cows) ❄️
@@TheStockwellI think the point is that there’s 130 volcanoes in Iceland. Extinct volcanoes can still absolutely become active again.
It may not be as big, but there is still absolutely a chance that basically everyone is at risk.
@@TheStockwell I ment of the volcanic orgin rather then the recent volcanic activities when I said that. But the wording was not accidentally confusing.I admit.
I had not seen a single cow from Vancouver to SF and back thru the Cascades so I know that non-cattle-country thing. It seems to be a big volcano country to me instead....
Full of lava, man
A familiar sight. Love from Hawaii.
def the Mind Flayer
It's not engulfing the town. It's destroyed two houses. Does noone check the titles of these videos?
“Engulfing Grindavik”, no. Engulfing three houses, yes.
Oh noes where will we have our Eurovison song contest now?
Lava isn't "engulfing" the town. Clickbait. Three houses so far.
"Engulfing" Grindavik, huh?
Because the soil is great being vulcanic
Just give it time - lava does not sleep
what would happen if we just constantly sprayed a bunch of ocean water at it?
You can't stop this with water. Nature will find a way to just overcome it. This isn't Hollywood.
I don't think that you could pour enough water on it to have a significant result: There is a constant supply of lava coming, an quite much, that is, so even if you manage to stop on of those flows, the lava will find another way, following gravity.
Aquaman and the lava gods would have to scrap it out i suppose
It would form lava tubes/tunnels, where the surface is cooled but it has enough thermal mass to stay molten underneath. The cooled surface would likely insulate it, helping it stay heated actually.
@@friedrichjunzt The only way it can work is to get part of the lava to cool enough to create a barrier that diverts the rest of the lava, I think that tactic was used in the Westmanneyar eruption.
도심 외곽지역에 지반약한곳을 택하여 일부러 자극을 좀 주는 것도 그나마 피해를 최소화 할 수 있다면 좋은 방법이 되지 않을까 생각해봄과 동시에 다른 유럽지역은 극심한 한파로 애먹는거 같더군요..
볼케이노가 분명이 자연재해중 심한편에 속하지만 아이슬랜드를 그래도 좀 더 따스히 해주는 이득을 주는 재해가 되길 기도합니다..
영상으로 보여지는 주택가를 더이상 덮치진 않았으면 좋겠네요 🙏🙏🙏
Iceland does not need a warmer climate lol, they are perfectly fine as they are
And you can not even smell the rotten dragon scent a Vulcano produces.
The floor is lava
Look like Hawaii big island.
Still being manufactured, like Hawaii.
The Floor Is Lava™ - European Extreme difficulty.
You cannot spray it with water to redirect the flow?
sand and boron not water
No. You use basalt like they did here, the lava there is of a basaltic nature and as a result a wall built out of basaltic rock will not melt.
They are also doing that. The wall they built has saved the power station so far, and did limit the damage to the town. But many of the apparently intact buildings have been wrecked by subsidence and by a month of hundreds of small earthquakes.
@@leroloralarlora Actually there are experimenting with using ocean water.
@@Crogatho So lava being basalt is unmelted? Interesting.
they had ample time to build huge earth swales to divert the flow and they did nothing
they did build big swales but other cracks opened up and lava tends to fill up channels and overflow. it is much less predictable than water.
They did build walls. Cant help when lava erupts on the other side of the wall.
I feel bad for people that lost their homes or livelihoods, but why build their in the first place and why would anyone ever rebuild their. I live in Florida and it's the and thing for people who build on or close to the beach. It's just a matter of time before a hurricane hits and severely damages or destroys the homes.
There hasn’t been an eruption in this area in over 800 years. When their ancestors built the town they had no idea there was a volcanic system here. Also only afew months ago have all the old faults and gabens come to light
In Florida the question is, why do people keep building wooden houses in a hurricane area? Or better, why are all these cheap trailer parks allowed?
They were digging dam but volcano had other plans
In fact the dam was mostly successful.
What’s happening with the power station?
Perfectly unharmed and safe
@@Crogatho Thank you.
Can’t fight nature!!!
In fact the Icelanders have successfully fought nature in the past and have at least scored a draw this time. The earth wall they built did substantially limit the damage and so far has saved the power station which also serves Reykjavik.
Have all the pets been rescued?
Yes it was all cleared out ages ago
they were fed into the volcano and in 3000000000000 years they will be re-summoned from the depths of the underworld as gargantuan hellish beings
When molten lava is hungry, molten lava must FEED.
Be flame my friend !😅😅😅
ij has
Is it expected to engulf the entire town??😢
That fissure has stopped and the other is contained. Hopefully a new fissure won't erupt.
Fissure 1 has created a spatter cone, but it has also created a lava tube. Not sure where the lava is being transported to
Too short video
Shades of the Hawaii’s Big Island…only really cold…
Dam!
You got a point there but also lava needs to point a safer direction
its a rich country, doesnt matter
No it's not a rich country! You probably think that about all european countries though. The town of Grindavik has a population of 3700 which is about 1% of the population and it was one of the main fishing ports in Iceland!!
Russia grieves with the victim
Horrible
This is just as bad as the fear mongering they did about Japan 😂
Build a town next to a volcano, be shocked and stunned when said volcano eats your town
what do you even mean, the whole iceland is a volcano
Well yeah, but the town HAS been there for a thousand years…
@@chrism1503 Yet people still haven't learned.
@@lamarw7757 People have a harbour and important fishing port, so... of course they're going to live there. They'll still live there when the infrastructure has re-built, and eventually the magma under the area will calm down for another 800 years. What is there to learn?
There isn’t a place in Iceland to NOT build near seismic & volcanic activity, genius.
Not sure who needs to hear this but, Don't live right beside a Volcano.
All of Iceland is seismically and volcanically active. It is literally still being created. Easy for you to tell people they should abandon homes, jobs, extended family, country, language, traditions, identity and nationality.
Or an ocean, or the air, or mountains, or rivers, or any other geological feature.
@@rustythegreatandpowerfulla2676 Air is not a geological feature
@@eh1702 They wouldn't have to abandon their homes if they hadn't moved next door to a volcano.
@@SouthernSteeler I dont know why people keep making that dumb comment?! There was no volcano that people knew about when this town was settled in 1890. In fact this area had not seen any volcanic eruptions in 780 years!!! This is an interesting fact because Iceland was formed entirely by volcanoes. So much of Iceland was much more active than this part of Iceland for almost 800 years.
So what's the real reason of your comment instead of showing compassion for people that you don't even know that are seeing their homes threatened by this volcanic eruption?? Do you make the same kind of remark about people who live in southeast coast of the US who just had their homes destroyed by a hurricane? Or most anywhere in the eastern US that destroys homes by tornadoes? 🙄
hope the insurance will cover it
Tbh pretty cool to say your home got destroyed by a volcano
Reading some of these comments, it's clear that they're Guardian readers 🤮🤮🤮
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Thanks Obama
They should use a bucket of water and stop it
Water will just turn to steam with the lava's temperatures.
this isnt runescape
I bet 1,000$ that they should have plenty of hot water
They have no hot water. The lava destroyed the town's hot water pipe from the power station. The pipe was next to the main road.
Dam
*[game show "wrong" buzzer sound]*
Taco Bell , in the next day
Haha
New name of country......hotland
Now now, calm down everyone, plenty of fire to go around......just a thought but wondering why they now have named it ....ICELAND
You go visit it sometime in the winter and see how you feel!!
Has anyone said, “climate change”?
Yes,,, you did !
Got absolutely nothing to do with that. At all.
only you
@@Crogatho yes, we know
No - because most people don't make irrelevant, ignorant statements.
Best wishes from Vermont ❄️
omg
Allahu Ekber .
Grindyvik got away very lucky it wasn’t worse!
Thoughts out to all those who’ve lost, especially the family of the missin man.
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No1 asked
They haven’t “got away” with anything, yet.