Fresh volcanic eruptions north of Grindavîk, Iceland.
- Started at 11:14 pm local (UTC), Nov 20
- 3 km long fissure location is similar to Mar 16 eruption
- A small earthquake swarm began at around 10:30 pm
- Grindavík and the Blue Lagoon evacuated
- Eruption is significantly smaller than the last eruption on Aug 22
- This is the 7th eruption this year
News: https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-11-20-new-eruption-on-reykjanes-peninsula-428068
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Live stream of the volcano eruption in Iceland by drone specialist
Isak Finnbogason.
Thursday morning update on the volcanic eruption north of Grindavîk, Iceland.
- Lava has flowed across the Grindavíkurvegur (Grindavík road), as seen in the map below
- There was no electricity in Grindavík and the Svartsengis power plant went out during the event. Electricity is back on in Grindavik.
- Lava has crossed the Njarðvíkuræð pipeline, which supplies hot water from Svartsengi to Fitjar
- The eruptive fissure has shortened
https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/eruption-begins-on-the-sundhnukur-fissure-swarm
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Here are a few more images of the eruption, fissures and lava flow north of Grindavîk, Iceland, that started last night.
Source: https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-11-20-eruption-on-reykjanes-peninsula-428068
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The lava from the eruption north of Grindavîk, Iceland has reached the Blue Lagoon parking lot. In the photo, workers are creating a new barrier towards the Blue Lagoon itself. The lagoon was evacuated last night.
Photo Vilhelm / Vísir
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Impressive drone-based footage of the eruption near Grindavík, with lava crossing the highway and entering the Blue Lagoon parking area, ground personnel shoring up lava barriers, followed by night-time video of the erupting and glowing lava by drone specialist Isak Finnbogason.
#iceland #volcano #eruption New volcano eruption started tonight 20th November 2024 at 23:14 local time Iceland, I will be doing a drone live stream from the...
Lava art 🎨
Artistic drone-based footage of day 3 of the volcanic eruption near Grindavík, by drone specialist Isak Finnbogason.
Watch the segments between 0:39:00 and 0:57:00 and between 1:05:00 and 1:20:00 for some mesmerizing footage of glowing, moving lava at night.
@AkaSci the peninsula is right on the friking crack opening up the atlantic sea floor and spewing new rock.
I like to show this to my 3 and 4 yr old nephews. we check on iceland every few weeks
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Here is another diagram that shows the geology of Iceland.
Iceland lies on the divergent boundary between the Eurasian plate and the North American plate. It also lies above a hotspot, the Iceland plume, which is believed to have caused the formation of Iceland itself, the island first appearing over the ocean surface about 16-18 million years ago.
The eruption area is located in the Reykjanes peninsula SW of Reykjavik.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Iceland
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Index-map-of-Iceland-showing-place-names-lithospere-plates-and-plate-boundary_fig1_251815271
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Beautiful, mesmerizing, double lava stream at night starting at about 2:00:00
AkaSci 🛰️
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