(22 Nov 2024)
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Blue Lagoon, Grindavik – 21 November 2024
1. Various drone shots of lava
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Winder, British seismologist at the University of Iceland:
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" I’m a seismologist at the University of Iceland and today we are here out in Svartsengi to retrieve a seismic station, which is now just 50 or 100 meters from the lava."
3. Winder and team retrieving seismic station
4. Various of lava flowing on road to the Blue Lagoon
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Winder, British seismologist at the University of Iceland:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOT6++
The sensor has been here for four years now, measuring earthquakes that have marked the intrusion of magma that fed these eruptions, but now things have got a little bit too close for comfort so it’s time to save it from the lava."
6. Various of lava moving after sunset
STORYLINE:
A volcano in southwestern Iceland that has roared back to life after eight centuries of silence has erupted for the seventh time since December, sending molten lava flowing towards the Blue Lagoon spa, a major tourist attraction.
The eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula started with little warning at 11:14 p.m. (2314 GMT) Wednesday and created a fissure around 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) long. The activity is estimated to be considerably smaller than the previous eruption in August, according to Iceland’s meteorological office that monitors seismic activity.
Tim Winder, a British seismologist at the University of Iceland, was at the scene to retrieve a seismic station that was dangerously near the lava.
"The sensor has been here for four years now, measuring earthquakes that have marked the intrusion of magma that fed these eruptions, but now things have got a little bit too close for comfort so it’s time to save it from the lava," said Winder.
While the eruption poses no threat to air travel, authorities warned of gas emissions across parts of the peninsula, including the nearby town of Grindavík, which was largely evacuated a year ago when the volcano came to life after lying dormant for 800 years.
Around 50 houses were evacuated after the Civil Protection agency issued the alert, along with guests at the Blue Lagoon.
By Thursday afternoon lava had spread across parking lot of the geothermal spa, one of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions, consuming a service building.
Lava also reached the pipeline that supplies the peninsula with hot water for heating, the meteorological office said, though the pipes were built to withstand lava flow.
Iceland, which sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic, averages one eruption every four to five years.
The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which spewed clouds of ash into the atmosphere and disrupted trans-Atlantic air travel for months.
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