Grindavik [video]
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#2I saw that the Blue Lagoon just reopened yesterday. Does the eruption mean that it will close again or does it mean they don't have to worry about it erupting right at the spa?
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#3I saw that the Blue Lagoon just reopened yesterday. Does the eruption mean that it will close again or does it mean they don't have to worry about it erupting right at the spa?
It is most definitely closed. The only people in that area now are construction workers who are closing the gap between the two mountains Þorbjörn and Hagafell, in order to protect the power station.
Edit: For context: https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/18/i_vidbragdssto...
They're closing the barricade where the road intersects it. The northern intersection seems to be a priority rather than the southern one, like I thought first.
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#4Here's a good 4-feed live multiview, with the submitted feed in it's lower-left quadrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
If you scrub back to 22:17:15 (on the embedded video clocks), you can see the initial eruption caught.
At a time like 00:12:26, you can see the camera with the best view rattle as if by a quake – which then appears in the quake log, lower-right.
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#5I'm always taken aback by the beauty and brightness of a lava flow. It's pitch black outside, but it's almost easy to forget that, given how brightly everything is lit up.
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#6I saw that the Blue Lagoon just reopened yesterday. Does the eruption mean that it will close again or does it mean they don't have to worry about it erupting right at the spa?
"About 4,000 people were earlier evacuated from the fishing town of Grindavik and the nearby Blue Lagoon geothermal spa was closed."
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#7Title needs editing. This is a live stream from a volcanic eruption that just started in Iceland.
https://www.ruv.is/english/2023-12-18-eruption-on-reykjanes-...
At the moment it doesn't look like flight traffic will be affected.
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#8My home town made it to the front page of HN.
I don’t live there any more but my family does. I visited last November during the major seismic activity and the town was evacuated. My family found a safe harbor at our extended family in a nearby town (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225019).
One local “correction” from most media (including the Icelandic media). The mountain (or hill rather) closest to the eruption is actually called Svartsengi by the locals, but Sýlingafell on maps. Svartsengi is actually the field down the hill behind the camera. They used to hold boxing matches and festivals there in the 50s and 70s respectively. Svartsengi is also the name of the nearby power plant (even though it is actually closer to Baðsvellir). If we want to be explicit we use a definite article Svartsengið to mean the field Svartsengisfell to mean the hill and Hitaveitan to mean the power plant. Sýlingafell is never used.
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#9Here's a good 4-feed live multiview, with the submitted feed in it's lower-left quadrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg If you scrub back to 22:17:15 (on the embedded video clocks), you can see the initial eruption caught. At a time like 00:12:26, you can see the camera with the best view rattle as if by a quake – which then appears in the quake log, lower-right.
Do you mean 22:17:15?
Thank you for posting this! The moment of the eruption is really amazing to watch!
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#10Title needs editing. This is a live stream from a volcanic eruption that just started in Iceland. https://www.ruv.is/english/2023-12-18-eruption-on-reykjanes-... At the moment it doesn't look like flight traffic will be affected.
> At the moment it doesn't look like flight traffic will be affected.
Yes, in fact the opposite. Air traffic controllers in Iceland were planning a strike, and they've now postponed it because of the eruption, they claim.
Source: https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/18/aflysa_verkfal...