The island of Heimaey appears to represent a center of volcanic activity, as unlike other islands such as Surtsey which is composed of one eruptive center, Heimaey is composed of multiple. If this volcanic complex follows the trend made at other Icelandic volcanoes, then one day there may be a towering stratovolcano or shield volcano on the island 100,000 years from now. Also, this video was reuploaded from an hour ago as the original version contained a significant error which has now been corrected.
@jeddliannaldo52032 жыл бұрын
I'm confused I thought this was posted just an hour ago.
@temosofthecommunistrepubli26372 жыл бұрын
What was the error?
@scottcary12 жыл бұрын
The previous version of the video had the islands on boundary of the North American plate and the Pacific plate.
@dewott82512 жыл бұрын
Glad you fixed it man, keep up the good work
@ValeriePallaoro2 жыл бұрын
@@scottcary1 shows you are right there at the minute of upload. You are good community member! Nicely done. (also thanks for the info, that would've irked me no-end)
@marcusbuchh2 жыл бұрын
My grandpa was a fisherman in vestmannaeyjar when it erupted, they evacuated the town along with my mom and family, and returned 6 months later. When i was there in 2013, eldfell had hotspots where you could bake bread etc. And small heat pockets you could hide in when its windy
@chriskelvin2482 жыл бұрын
I was there traveling last summer. Superb museum documenting the event built around a few excavated houses. I was flabbergasted to find that the local legend of the bread-baking possible at the summit is still true. I dug down 6” with my hands at the base of a seemingly cold and dead fumarole and suddenly had to snatch my hands back- still hot!!!
@OpaSpielt2 жыл бұрын
3:24 "So the residents who live here should not be too worried..." while showing a puffin. What a wonderful sense of humour ... 🤣🤣 Yea, I can remember, that was the first eruption I followed in the news intently. Sursey, which was earlier, I can remember too, but I was too young to focus on in the news. Thanks for the informative video. 🖐🏼👴🏼
@AaronGeo2 жыл бұрын
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@karinroberts55362 жыл бұрын
@@AaronGeo thanks
@rafaelvalimfernandes2 жыл бұрын
Best channel on volcanism, extremely scientific and very didactic, I thank the channel organizer for the immense contribution.
@blake14532 жыл бұрын
Not trying to be a dick but I'm pretty sure it's called volcanology
@rafaelvalimfernandes2 жыл бұрын
@@blake1453 You are not wrong about this question, however I was referring precisely to the volcanism phenomenon and not to volcanology, as the latter refers to the study of this phenomenon.
@blakena49072 жыл бұрын
Didactic. That's an excellent word. Thanks!
@BrilliantDesignOnline2 жыл бұрын
OK, now that is clever, pumping in the sea water to selectively cool the leading edge of the lava. I can imagine this being used in the future by cooling advancing lava by using computer modeling to engineer a specific path to guide it to a safer area by creating a channel. What do you do? 'Why, I am a lava guidance engineer' 🙂
@MountainFisher2 жыл бұрын
There is a detailed documentary about it if you want to look it up.
@StuffandThings_2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they could also engineer systems to deploy very long, durable hoses (perhaps by airplane or helicopter) to more inland areas to use the same technique (along with very powerful pumps). I feel like the combination of explosives to blast particular paths in the flows and water to cool particular points, in conjunction with models to help with precision, could legitimately help mitigate risk of effusive eruptions in some areas. That being said, humanity could also just try not to build on volcanic systems quite so much...
@MountainFisher2 жыл бұрын
@@StuffandThings_ Look up the documentary, they did use explosives, but they dragged hoses and sprinklers over the lava.
@SaoGage2 жыл бұрын
Icelandic people are hardy, very intelligent, and resourceful. My wife and I loved the country (and it’s volcanic geology) and people so much we returned twice more with a fourth trip planned for this fall. Go see the northern lights!
@Ser-Junkan2 жыл бұрын
This is a pre good video concerning the Heimaey eruption but I think that it would have been pretty nice to mention at 2:04 that Surtsey, the volcano/island onymous to a "Surtseyan eruptions" is a part of the same island class of the Westman-islands, also one of if not the main reason water was used as a diversion of magma flow is because there was great fear that the natural harbour if the island would be cut of. otherwise its a great video so keep doing good work.
@timweather38472 жыл бұрын
The main purpose of pumping sea water was to prevent the lava flow from closing the harbour, as the town is dependent on fishing and there is no other viable site for another harbour. In the event, the harbour was kept open, but with a considerably restricted entrance, making it quite interesting for larger vessels to enter if there is much wind, which there nearly always is.
@aaronandrews30592 жыл бұрын
Excellent animations. One of the best parts of your videos.
@gaius_enceladus2 жыл бұрын
I remember this eruption very well! Very spectacular!
@wtglb2 жыл бұрын
This eruption was one of the first times I’d heard of a place called “Iceland”. Also learned about Reykjavik from the Fisher-Spassky Chess matches about the same time. I have visited there 3 times, it’s just magical
@GeologyHub2 жыл бұрын
I plan to visit Iceland when the next volcanic eruption occurs there. Even if that means going to a highly remote site like Askja!
@wtglb2 жыл бұрын
@@GeologyHub that would be so cool, you’ll love Iceland, I guarantee it
@StuffandThings_2 жыл бұрын
Holuhraun was the first time I really followed a volcanic eruption even though I was young at the time. I was hoping to try and visit during Fagradalsfjall but unfortunately the pandemic and the uncertainty of activity during the summer shut that down. Perhaps some day I'll see an Icelandic eruption...
@davidc65102 жыл бұрын
Another great Geology Hub video! Thanks for sharing!
@erichtomanek47392 жыл бұрын
I read that due to the eruption and the cooling sea water used to stop the advance of lava into most of the town, the harbour has been improved, in the sense of protecting ships from storms' rough seas.
@papasmjordeig2 жыл бұрын
Yes that is true, the eruption helped the island in general as the eastern winds were so extreme here when there was no mountain to block the winds. But now eastern winds are not so bad here
@testbenchdude2 жыл бұрын
I got the chance to hike on Eldfell in 2018. There are still active fumaroles dotted all over the summit path where you can feel the warm gases escaping, even 45 years removed from the eruption (back in 2018). Fantastic place to visit if you ever get the chance. The museum memorializing the eruption is also well worth the visit.
@MegaMegaman872 жыл бұрын
so this entire island is only a little more than 10,000 years old? Geological speaking thats incredibly young for any land mass
@StuffandThings_2 жыл бұрын
Small islands like that tend to erode into the sea pretty fast, so its youth is probably the only reason its even there. That, and the volcanic activity that keeps adding to it. Probably not smart to build on a young volcanic island though...
@valentinsantiago2772 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Your videos make my day. And i am always looking forward to the weekend update.
@magni10012 жыл бұрын
Great video very educational and interesting. Congratulations on good pronaunceation of difficult icelandic names c:
@GNXClone2 жыл бұрын
"We come from the land of the ice and snow From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow"
@stephenrickstrew72372 жыл бұрын
I remember This as it was one of the first volcanoes to receive widespread live media coverage… we were really rooting for the town and it’s people …Surprised they didn’t consider this technique for the coast road at Geldingdalgalir …!
@gogh842 жыл бұрын
The accent of the names bring a smile to my face :D I know they must be difficult! Heimaey was my childhood home and still and always will be my home :)
@StuffandThings_2 жыл бұрын
Its incredible how complex the geologic history behind even the most simple of landforms like volcanic islands can get. That's quite a few unique events just to build one small island! Then you get to stuff like really old and deformed cratons where practically nobody knows what really happened over the eons. Its like one giant fun puzzle.
@DianaDeLuna2 жыл бұрын
I would love to visit this place. All those beautiful cliffs & puffins nesting in the cliffs.
@333ivan3332 жыл бұрын
Excellent video on a fascinating eruption. I have always been thoroughly impressed with the Icelandic response to this event, which seemed to be a bolt out of the blue. Was planning on visiting four years ago but economic - and then pandemic - misfortunes got in the way, so now it's just videos and pictures.
@stevenwiederholt70002 жыл бұрын
Something (it appears) so many people don't understand. We live on an Active Planet. KZfaq search: Michael Crichton, 'Is this the end of the world? No, this IS the world.'
@carolyngarman14222 жыл бұрын
I have been to Heimay. As a geologist, this island is fascinating.
@papasmjordeig2 жыл бұрын
Dont know how i missed this upload! My mom was 11 when the eruption in 1973 started and i have heard the story of when she fled hundreds of times. It propably wont happen in my lifetime but i have sometimes thought about what i would do if the volcano would start erupting again
@Earthneedsado-over1772 жыл бұрын
The geological history of Iceland is really fascinating. How do scientists date the various ancient eruptions of these volcanoes?
@edwardlulofs4442 жыл бұрын
Well, the process has come a long way from just looking at it and guessing. All I know is that it's difficult and complicated.
@baystated2 жыл бұрын
Good catch!
@triadmad2 жыл бұрын
I remember well watching the news coverage on television during the eruption. I was especially excited when National Geographic published a story about the eruption, however many months later.
@stp1823143432 жыл бұрын
They have a very nice museum about the eruption! An the island is very good to photograph the puffin bird
@AaronGeo2 жыл бұрын
Didnt u post this already
@GeologyHub2 жыл бұрын
I reposted it as the original upload contained a major error which has now been corrected.
@AaronGeo2 жыл бұрын
@@GeologyHub okay
@ValeriePallaoro2 жыл бұрын
Absoloutely one of your best (have I said that before?) You seem to have an appreciation of how volcanic/plate tech/surface interactions works and with your presentation allows us to easily understand all the facts. I hesitate to say - a thousand years to the next eruption, though. The plate spreading zone is active and as you say the line of volcanoes that have broken the ocean surface is growing. However, provided the lava is basaltic and lacks water/gaseous content, this method of people movemnent keeps the islanders safe (puffins are strong flyers, so they are good) Best yet!! Absolutely!!
@hermangre2 жыл бұрын
~3:20 in John McPhee's book "The Control of Nature". In three parts, the one here is "Cooling the Lava". The other two are, "Los Angeles against the Mountains"(guess what that's about), and "Atchafalaya". about changing the course of the Mississippi River.
@kentrefftzs7082 жыл бұрын
What can you tell me about the new madrid fault in Missouri?
@cluelessbeekeeping13222 жыл бұрын
Dude. *_I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!_*
@davidvonkettering2042 жыл бұрын
Very Scientific of you! THanks very much! Love, David
@P-G-772 жыл бұрын
The Haipai we have to remain impress on our mind... not a case... this is only a way nature have to advise first...
@deadgoon21702 жыл бұрын
We will take your reccomendation under consideration.
@ulvemann432 жыл бұрын
At a certain point one might just say "the active volcano in iceland; Iceland".
@elizabethsmith34162 жыл бұрын
Thank you loved this, some day I may be lucky enough to visit
@joannabell92942 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@RoboBlocker2 жыл бұрын
That would be really cool if you made some longer videos.
@MrDan7082 жыл бұрын
Millions of years hence, will Iceland end up as large as Greenland?
@Leyrann2 жыл бұрын
No. Greenland is part of the continental shelf, whereas Iceland is a volcanic island. Continents are a few billion years old, and do not significantly change (small bits are added sometimes, but that's it). What IS possible is that Iceland will eventually split apart if volcanic activity were to go down. If the island doesn't erode away into the sea (a process which, for Iceland, might take tens if not hundreds of millions of years, by my relatively uneducated estimate) and the plate movements change, it's possible one or both halves of Iceland might end up being one of those small bits that gets added to another continent. Another example of a similar event is Silesia, which was an Iceland-like island. It got gobbled up by the North American plate about 55 million years ago and now forms the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, the area west of Seattle.
@sirmonkey19852 жыл бұрын
think more like New zealand where the plates are slowly ripping the island apart.. the same is happening in Iceland but as long as there's continued volcanic along the rift zone it'll continue to fill in the area. like Leyrann mentions, if that was to ever stop it would eventually split the island after millions of years. but alternatively the rift zone could shift east or west of the island.
@Dragrath12 жыл бұрын
@@sirmonkey1985 Not quite the same Iceland is the combination of the Mid Atlantic Ridge and the Icelandic Hotspot so the plate boundary is why Iceland exists as Volcanism in Iceland is more or less a supercharged mid Ocean ridge system. The rift does shift (In fact the hot spot itself appears to be moving south along the Mid Atlantic Ridge) This is quite geologically complex with evidence for the Icelandic hotspot being quite long lived with some models suggesting it goes back well into the Mesozoic possibly all the way to the late Permian as a potential candidate for causing the Siberian Traps though that is controversial of course. It does however have a track which traces it back at least into the Arctic where it contributed to the formation of the Arctic "ocean" before passing beneath Greenland and reemerging to split Greenland from Eurasia 56-55 Ma with the formation of the North Atlantic Large Igneous Province. This change in activity as well as what looks to have been a 2nd possibly 3rd mantle plume head coincides with a major reshuffling of Earth's tectonic plates associated with the end of Subduction along much of former Gondwana. In the newer deep plate tectonics models where the Crust is really just the surface of huge Mantle tectonic plates plume heads might be better thought of in terms of material being squeezed out along weak points to accommodate the reshuffling of tectonic Margins since the total volume of the Earth is constrained meaning the amount of convergent and divergent boundaries and associated tectonic stresses must be kept balanced. New Zealand and the Larger Zealandia like any continental crust in this model are more or less silicate glaciers riding on top of these thick Crust + upper Mantle plates and thus New Zealand and the rest of Zealandia are currently being spread further and further apart over geological time while recent behavior from the double subduction has begun to build up the zone of intersection thickening it at least prior to the formation of the Taupo volcanic zone back arc basin. The deep plate tectonics model is still being formed at this point as part of the ongoing new revolution of plate tectonics enabled by seismic tomography and observations of the deeper structure of the Earth and the current shallow plate tectonics models to explain various types of volcanic activity and deep seismic structures.(Basically it throws out a number of haphazardly applies and unphysical explanations such as slab windows and slab rollback as unphysical citing evidence that "slabs" are continuous down to at least the Mantle Transition Zone and thus are unable to form these supposed structures at least according to Glazner_2022. Instead this newer picture suggests we must look at the Earth system as a whole and the need to balance geophysical convergent and divergent boundaries as Earth's system's volume is constrained. TDLR we are still too ignorant of Deep Earth's dynamics but whole Earth geodynamical modeling is looking to change the game in much the way modern meteorology has changes Earth's weather prediction from a regional picture to a global system scale.
@jeddliannaldo52032 жыл бұрын
I thought this was posted just an hour ago.
@Aztesticals2 жыл бұрын
Yes the original volcano had a major error that has now been fixed
@jeddliannaldo52032 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@QuakeCentral2 жыл бұрын
My grandma, grandpa, my mom and her 2 siblings had to evacuate when it happened.
@apismellifera10002 жыл бұрын
Maurice and Katja Kraft was there watching this eruption
@DesertRatExploration2 жыл бұрын
Can we talk about the 6.6 in the Kermadec Islands on 2022-03-02? Please.
@gregknipe87722 жыл бұрын
I imagine using the word gravel helps the algorithm.
@kentrefftzs7082 жыл бұрын
I live 7 miles from parkfield CA. as the crow flies...
@matthewwelsh2942 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on Spirit Lake, Coldwater Lake or Batte Ground Lake?
@ExpertOfFX2 жыл бұрын
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! I Grew up with Mt St Helen's You Should see Te Photographs Me da Took Of Her!
@brianalloway45012 жыл бұрын
What about Volcán San Pedro for a topic?
@cmcer19952 жыл бұрын
I always like to hear about activity in Iceland since it is so volcanic and is always ready for another eruption. However, I would never live there as I see it as a roll of the dice.
@djolley612 жыл бұрын
Of what kind of rock other than volcanic is Iceland constructed?
@mengatur2 жыл бұрын
Can you do kelud volcano
@FuelforLife0012 жыл бұрын
everything is messed up with the World right now 😖
@jakkrapholsingraksatrakul93782 жыл бұрын
Operation Land of Fire & Ice. (Battle of Mother’s Nature)
@Shadow_trooper_studio2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact. Only one person died from the volcano if my school told me correctly
@X_AYAN_972 жыл бұрын
Nobita
@thedestroyer16322 жыл бұрын
3rd
@13_cmi Жыл бұрын
Why is Iceland Iceland and not fireland? And why is Greenland Greenland when Iceland is greener than Greenland and Greenland is more ice than Iceland? Greenland should be Iceland and Iceland should be burnt plant land.
@Henry18142 жыл бұрын
I dunno. I find the voice a bit condescending, a bit smarmy. "Let me tell you all about this, about which you know nothing." Matter of taste, I suppose. I"d prefer something less nudgingly intimate.
@garthreid71142 ай бұрын
It's a fanciful thought, that pouring water on a lava flow will stop lava! 😳 It won't, a nuclear bomb, wouldn't stop the flow. It was a stroke of luck, and not man or god's efforts. That is, if you're the type of stoner that believes there's a god.....or gods.....or sons of god....or daughters of go........hold on, that's me getting carried away again with the god envy....
@rareduck89872 жыл бұрын
Eldfell was the place wen gordon ramsay bake his bread and got stolen
@ifeelbetterabouthis.louis32 жыл бұрын
Iceland is Finnish 🤣 finished
@mysticwolf28422 жыл бұрын
Why oh why does this guy have only one tone to his voice, this monotone has and will put a person to sleep
@shytownmofo2 жыл бұрын
The better to soothe your anger, and lull you to sleep, young boy.
@mysticwolf28422 жыл бұрын
@@shytownmofo i just might be older than you think, youngster, last time I 2as at the VA I was called an old fogie,
@MelanieCravens2 жыл бұрын
He has explained before that it IS his natural voice and his tone and phrasings are due to his having autism. Give the guy a break. I think he is doing awesome and appreciate him sharing his knowledge with us.