Iceland - possible eruption due near the Blue Lagoon

[KenAdams]

Is anyone following this?

https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2023/11/03/coming_close_to_an_eruption/

The main concern is the power plant next to the lagoon.

There are constant mini eruptions happening too - https://vafri.is/quake/

watching drone live stream.
there are people very close to the lava

Yes, official peeps though. Someone took a few lava samples.

Isak has done a very long livestream it's still going!

The lava flow is currently approaching Suðurstrandarvegur at a rate of 12 m/h, meaning that if it continues it will reach the road in 20 hours.

If it reaches the sea it will be a whole different scenario. I read that the lava will react with the sea water to create hydrogen chloride. So that wouldn't be great.

During the daylight it was hard to see any of the new lava, but by night it's clear the eruption is still pushing out more so I guess the flow going down towards the road/sea is slowly advancing. Not good if it cuts the road.

It wouldn't be great but it wouldn't cause the level of problem that it would have if for example it had erupted underwater and was explosive causing an ash cloud.
Any gases and ash from this would be pretty small scale and localised. If there's a moderate or stronger wind any gas will quickly be dispersed.

Beautiful and incredible up close drone footage by Isak Finnbogason

Mesmerising stuff

watching the livestream now.
wow. that's a huge amount of lava
absolutely mesmerising

Me too. It really is huge.

like caramel sauce on ice cream

Were you watching Isak's drone footage of the quarry filling up? It was incredible!

Which of his videos included this? Do you have an approximate time stamp?

This is the stream where the lava reaches the quarry and starts going into it. Timestamp: approx 2.57:00

Weather was dreadful, too, so he did a fantastic job.

There were 2 more videos following that. Isak moved closer and that was even more awesome.

That's amazing.

About how high are the lava spurts? It’s hard to guage from the webcams, they could be 10 foot or 100 foot 😊

Still going strong. Apparently the lava might be coming directly from deeper down now, so it might be another long lasting eruption like 2021... but who knows, they do say a lot of stuff that seems to be educated guesswork and I suppose it's intended to be taken as such.

A Blue Lagoon employee was admitted to the hospital a few days ago with symptoms of gas poisoning (I don't know if staff are generally there atm, it's closed to customers anyway). And we've seen many reports of unhealthy gas levels in nearby areas, depending on which way the wind's blowing.

The police say there is no justification for the Blue Lagoon to reopen while the eruption is ongoing.

a friend who is a geologist was there is november just before the firsf fissures in grindavik to set up instruments.

they lost a lot of the measuring devices since (no idea what they are measuring tbh). access for researchers is, rightly, highly regulated and restricted now. friend has plans to go after easter if they get the permit.

Good luck to your friend! Iceland is an amazing place for geologists. Far too late for me as I went down a humanities route but living here makes me wish sometimes I had gone into earth sciences.

Did they manage to raise the berm that was causing concern does anyone know?

Sounds like they are planning to blast a channel to the west of grindavik to divert the lava to the sea.
Seems an extraordinary length to go to to protect a town which is fundamentally lost. Best case scenario it likely will uninhabitable for decades.

Eruption from the final cone active has suddenly ramped up as of the last hour! Visible on this webcam:

Livestream from Isak Finnbogason is expected within half an hour.

I've been following and watching for a while now, thanks to everyone who is keeping us updated. It is fascinating. I am hoping to visit Iceland later in the year

@Sleepwhatsthazzz we go 2 months today. So excited.

It's looking really cool at the moment!

They just reopened the Blue Lagoon yesterday "despite high levels of poisonous gas in the area". 😐 Apparently it's all fine.

Bloody hell!

Are they dim? Christ almighty I wouldn't be going.