serpentine Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 (edited) After experiencing some serious seismic activity for the last few weeks observers can now clearly see a large fissure eruption has taken place. Edited March 21, 2021 by serpentine 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsman Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Iceland is somewhere I have wanted to visit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) Hundreds of visitors trekking out to view the stark landscape in the valley today. Edited March 28, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 (edited) New feed with sound. Cinder cones have merged with possibly a merging of the fissures at some point. Edited March 29, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 Shot from other side of valley at dawn with the Moon setting. Valley filled to depth of 20-30 metres giving clear run of fast flow to the valley extremities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) New feed Lack of proper toilet facilities on site causing some concern. Edited March 31, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 Another fissure opened up yesterday near to the other scattering the volcano camera trolls hither and thither and no doubt the elf 'n safety crews will be out in force later today as the fissure is on elevated ground this time and the lava flow rapid. Good round up here with links to the cameras. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 (edited) A third fissure has seemingly opened up around midnight Iceland time and a lava flow from it is pouring into the original valley which has been largely evacuated of sightseeers. Currently flowing right past the camera. Edited April 7, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 Final shot from the camera in Geldingadalir valley as the lava rolls in from the left from fissure 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 (edited) Very strange indeed that there was rapid fissure growth and outflow during the middle of the night which basically stopped on the camera. However here's a shot taken just before dawn today showing the three vents 1,3,2 (left to right) conjoined by lavafields and also a link to a rough map of the area which indicates the probable presence of one large intrusion rising from great depth there. Perched on the rise the active 2nd vent gives most cause for concern as it is capable of sending a rapid flow in virtually any direction from that point. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1e4waWgJKj0cujWRkQyX838qk7t3HblU1&ll=63.89094904848342%2C-22.253649149083106&z=14&fbclid=IwAR3LOHnVEPdiUrJVZggmXMEwOIklD0H9VL_d-MMjHcLYLMZ2ZWEYF_iOngM&entry=yt Edited April 9, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 (edited) Another busy night up in the mountains with mountain rescue teams using their vehicles (some the members must be getting a bit tired by now) to escort people out of the area before 11pm. Blue lights on the safe upslope in the distance are sightseeers getting a good view of all 3 vents. But later in the early hours of the morning after most had cleared the area a fourth vent was inserted between 2 and 3. Edited April 10, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 After a night of fog, cloud and smoke several more vents open up after breakfast time in Iceland. Total output along the fissure line is still a fraction of the fissure 8 eruption rate in Puna 2018. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 A pair of the expensive cameras were sensibly taken away for maintenance during an extended period of poor visibilty but after a day of fog and vog the prevailing winds have finally cleared the view revealing a much changed valley (compare 28th March shot). Some vents have reshaped their cones and one of the designated approach footpaths seems to have been overrun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 The four Northernmost and highest vents have shut down activity over the last week and the remaining ones are contributing to filling the parallel valley to the East making problematical hiking from that direction whilst the ampitheatre for viewers using the Western path is much reduced and keeps people at a distance from the vents themselves. This eruptive phase is slow and using but a fraction of it's energy prompting some vulcanologist to infer that some of the settlements in the vicinity may be at threat in the long term. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZrDkKbRz7U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 (edited) More vents shutting down leaving vent 5 ideally placed to feed lava into the next valley and soon likely to cut off hiker access to a good viewing spot completely. Fountaining to 50 metres plus. Edited April 28, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 Well the camera got moved to safety which probably didn't involve a single camera technician lugging all the gear willymilly over the hillside with encouraging instructions from several hundred youtube viewers. Friday night Sunset over a quiet vent 5. Since Midnight Saturday output has been variable with fountaining to greater heights insterspersed with periods of quiet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 (edited) The variable activity has certainly caught the attention today but there is now a definite lava falls and lava river with banks and surge activity which has flooded the parallel valley, cut off the central viewing area and might well reach the sea to the South if the eruption persists. Map Night time activity might be even more extreme. Edited May 3, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 (edited) Ragnarok is upon the land of fire and ice. A pillar of fire. Edited May 6, 2021 by Prometheus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted May 9, 2021 Author Share Posted May 9, 2021 (edited) On 5/6/2021 at 11:44 AM, Prometheus said: Ragnarok is upon the land of fire and ice. A pillar of fire. Ragnarok has specific historical connotations for Iceland but the essential geology hasn't changed and is a cause for concern. Lot's of drones have been lost in the area but here's a clip of the well defined falls and river with developing banks that is gradually pencilling in the map of the high valleys to some depth. The main cone has developed in size and is now swamping the earliest vents with it's output. Edited May 9, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 The blood of the Earth forming a new skin. Its rather beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 (edited) Second expensive camera lost to advancing lava. Next the artificial walls. Edited May 18, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy64 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 theyre building earth walls to slow the lava advance, still an interesting spectacle:- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy64 Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 (edited) time-lapse camera in a different valley where the lava is starting to appear over the hill :- http://brunnur.vedur.is/myndir/listi/webcam_slagaNNA.html# Edited May 22, 2021 by eddy64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy64 Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 drone video of the lava making its way into another valley :- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentine Posted May 26, 2021 Author Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) Current fan map shows progress of the lava output. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1e4waWgJKj0cujWRkQyX838qk7t3HblU1&ll=63.883749797373284%2C-22.259987554853872&z=14&fbclid=IwAR3LOHnVEPdiUrJVZggmXMEwOIklD0H9VL_d-MMjHcLYLMZ2ZWEYF_iOngM&entry=yt Edited May 26, 2021 by serpentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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