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My wife and family were there only a few months ago. Good timing.
Title 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...
Here'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.
I wish Youtube live had chat replay to see people's reaction, it doesn't seem to work when the stream is still live.
Is it normal for there to be such a long (4km!) fissure with lava erupting? I always was under the impression a pit formed and then filled with lava which would then overflow out the sides, rather than a long rip in the earth like this.
The reason is that Iceland's vulcanism is driven by a hot spot that sits right on top of the middle oceanic ridge (where tectonic plates emerge from the mantle, as opposed to coastal subduction zones where they travel back into the mantle).
The ridge is normally on the seafloor and this is one of the very few places where it runs on land. This makes Iceland's volcanism so special and specifically interesting for science.
It's so amazing that we can just immediately have a bunch of live feeds and easily scroll back on them to see the moment the eruption occurred. "What a time to be alive" vibes.
Thank Google.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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...
We are going to Iceland in a coupke of days. Fingers crossed we don't have a strike and an erruption that can be savely photographed.
Either way, most important thing is that there are no cassualties and property damage is minimal.
A (not very good) photo I took: https://imgur.com/a/Yc2apSu
Here'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.
It's so amazing that we can just immediately have a bunch of live feeds and easily scroll back on them to see the moment the eruption occurred. "What a time to be alive" vibes.