BS: new eruption in Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 06:44 PM

Hallo, well here we go again no 2 has started, and there will no 3 and it could be near the capital next time, all the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 11:18 AM

I'm glad to see that the eruption is in the same remote area as before. A 5.4 earthquake close to that nearby town (Grin something) had people concerned.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 09:33 AM

So, the options are, to open a new volcanic eruption thread,
or refresh a recent one -- you may see what I chose.

This time the eruption is located in Meradalir, Iceland.

Today's Washington Post

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 04:06 PM

Oh, apart from the levity above:
Keep safe Skarpi!

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 04:05 PM

I visited Iceland a few years ago. I had a local beer called 'Gull', which I found meant 'gold'.
Also visited an impressive waterfall (I was en route to Niagara). The waterfall was Gullfoss, or 'Golden Falls'.
Like 'golden showers', only bigger ;)

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 11:03 AM

The Reykjavik Grapevine is still posting stories online
in English at its website.
These stories are accompanied by a plea for donations
because the Grapevine is running out of funds
thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 04:46 PM

Well, it started again with more a lava
Skrúmp .
All the best Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 06:27 PM

Thanks, Skarpi. I'm glad it is slowing down. Our poor atmosphere doesn't need those gasses, and the ring road and the fiber-optic cable don't need lava.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 06:26 PM

DING !!

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 04:19 PM

Silly River, do that, I can check for concerts..
Geldingardalir is just Geldingardalir - gel DING a dalir ...
I guess you are looking for this .

The Eruption is slowing down .
all the best Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jul 21 - 06:18 PM

as for me,
I guess the thing is going to erupt
no matter how you pronounce its name ...

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 10:41 PM

Skarpi?   Let's try phrasing the question another way,
because I think I understand Leeneia's question.


          [Gel ding ar da lir]
          syllable by syllable   --    atkvædi

Leeneia's question can be understood in terms of
syllables, and
the emphasis on each syllable.

There is a stronger emphasis on some syllables,
while other syllables sound weaker than the others.

When Leeneia says "loud" she means "strong emphasis"
and she wants to know:

which of the FIVE syllables       atkvædi
has the strongest emphasis?   áherslur?

Is it the first syllable, "Gel"
or
is one of the other four syllables
stronger in emphasis than "Gel" at the beginning of the word?



(okay, okay, I'm too fussy/scrupulous/punctilious --

             pirrud / samviskusamur / stakur ...)

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 04:29 PM

Skarpi, I have a friend who with her husband will travel to Iceland in the first week of August. I'll send you each other's Facebook information in case there is any way you two can say hello or you can point her at a concert going on. I don't know if they're going to go look at lava, but they do have plans to visit waterfalls.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Reinhard
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 12:56 PM

Thank you for the update, Skarpi.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 12:35 PM

what happened since two months ago, that the Lava is slowing down, the volcano is stopping for 12 to 24 hours then it starts again, slowly dying or it will open up some where else ? who knows

it is still going when I am writing this .

all the best Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 12:32 PM

Loudest ? nothing is loudest , just Geldingardalur or Geldingardalir,

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Reinhard
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 10:05 AM

Leeneia, that video from 60 Minutes is two months old. What happened since then?

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 09:20 AM

Okay, Skarpi, but which part is loudest? The American announcer said 'GELL' loudest.   Is that correct?

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 22 Jul 21 - 12:33 PM

Gel-ding-ar-dal-ir

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Jul 21 - 02:08 AM

The eruption is still going on. So far there have been 9 vents, but at present only number 5 is still erupting.

This segment of 60 Minutes gives an overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LI8Gcpawvo

They say the lava is coming from 9 miles down. And they pronounce it:
GELL ding a dahl er. The G is hard. (Wikipedia says the nearby Meradalir is the valley of the mares. Is Geldingadalir the valley of the geldings? No one says.)

I have watched a lot of video of volcanoes, and almost all of it shows a volcano's peak as seen from a distance. With this volcano, we see so many parts of the process - the fountains, the lava rivers, the cooling beds, the lava emerging from the base of the cone, sections of the cone breaking off and plunging back into the pool of lava to be melted again.

Few volcanoes have been studied in such loving detail.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 05:53 PM

Yes, the eruption still seems to be going strong.

Seeing this eruption has made me sense something of the length of geologic time. This eruption has been going on for 3 or 4 months, yet look how little it has changed the landscape. Then I realize that all of Iceland has been built up by eruptions like this.

Yes, some eruptions were probably bigger, but man, think how long it must have taken to assemble the entire island, one lava fountain at a time.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 07:01 PM

I receive notifications from a volcano app, and I've had loads in the last two weeks about Etna. In the last five years we've been twice to Sicily, staying in an hotel with a prime view of Etna. Both times, the beast slumbered. Grrr...

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 06:50 PM

It´s still running the lava , and it´s looking like it ´s going to for some
time more .
Skarpi .

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Reinhard
Date: 09 May 21 - 03:42 AM

Lenneia, that turned out to be for ten hours only. Rag is a lava geyser again....

See the livecam.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Jos
Date: 09 May 21 - 03:27 AM

Judging by the 'Visit Iceland' live feed this morning, it isn't about to give up just yet. There has been a fire geyser about every ten minutes.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 08 May 21 - 09:47 PM

Thank you for the link, keb. The Grapevine had intelligent commentary from an authoritative source. Apparently this eruption is coming to an end. Reinhard's observation is in line with that.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Reinhard
Date: 08 May 21 - 08:51 AM

After a partial crater wall collapse at about 9 am local time the vent has given up his week-long geyser-like behaviour and is back to continously pouring out lava.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 May 21 - 11:52 PM

Well, leeneia et al., I don't have the euronews story either,
but would you settle for

the Reykjavik Grapevine?

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: robomatic
Date: 07 May 21 - 06:41 PM

I remember seeing an eruption from my office window. It was a couple hundred miles away but it was pouring ash into the sky and it was blowing toward town. Got home in time to get the car in the garage.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 07 May 21 - 12:56 PM

The volcano is showing new behavior - sending lava many meters into the air, so violently that it is now visible from Reykjavik. Here's a link:

https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/03/icelandic-volcano-becomes-more-volatile-and-powerful

(This page gives a couple of paragraphs, then says "Read More." But I never could get it to show me more.)

The article says the volcano is cycling between quiescence and eruption. Perhaps some unknown process is hold lava back until pressure builds up to the point where a huge lava fountain occurs. Perhaps the overall amount of energy at the site is unchanged.

It must be a remarkable thing to see - though I would only watch from a great distance.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 10:46 AM

Jack's link goes to a site with a map of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland. It goes right under Geldingadalir, then makes a right turn toward the center of Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 08:33 AM

A mere glacier won't stop an eruption. What it will do is melt, and the meltwater may react with the rising magma to create an explosive phreatic eruption.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 06:12 AM

Jabb we are going into a new error of eruptions, glacier melded its easy way up for the lava

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Jack Campin
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 05:48 AM

here comes Grimsvotn

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: DaveRo
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 03:13 PM

I remember travelling through Laxdalur (lax = salmon) in a bus while reading Laxdale Saga - Penguin translation by Magnus Magnusson - remember him?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxd%C3%A6la_saga

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 11:50 AM

I decided to learn some Icelandic words.

dalur = valley
klettur = cliff
fjara = beach

At our volcano site, dalur seems to become dalir, so that the eruption started in the Geldinga valley, Geldingadalir. I hope Skarpi will correct that if it's wrong.

The fissure has opened further, and lava is flowing into an adjacent valley, the Meradalir. Apparently these valley are completely uninhabited, so that's good.
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On YouTube, I look for footage posted by ruv.is, the official "natural-resources" agency of Iceland. One day I looked at a different source, which seemed sensationalized, and commenters said that some of the footage came from Hawaii.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 08:26 AM

Jabb the third crack has opened, and the direction is north east, and that is not good. All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 06 Apr 21 - 06:13 AM

Haha,ja well I think more is coming.
All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Jos
Date: 05 Apr 21 - 03:44 PM

Every time I go to the live camera I am offered a translation of the Icelandic below, so I decided to try it.
The English is not as good as Skarpi's. The translations range from charming to incomprehensible. Here are a few examples:

‘The night was quiet and today is well under way for a soda walk ...’

‘things have been going well, says Field Director Sigurdur Bergmann. At least he says twinkles in the air in terms of tomorrow.’

‘She builds her own bosges and since then it's been brought so much into the lava pond that the bosgeians have given themselves up and started leaking from it. It happened last night. The bosoms are at their lowest in the northwest.’

‘Bored weather is south by sea and will be through the night, but is expected to go down in the morning. But those planning a volcanic expedition tomorrow need to get ready well because it's going to be cold in the weather.’

‘no one had melded themselves from Grindavík or anywhere else by The South’

‘There was boring weather at the eruption sites today, but traffic was mostly traumatic, police said.’

‘the new crack is aluminium long and one that opened at the beginning of the eruption in Geldingadalur, and this is probably aluminium big’

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 05 Apr 21 - 10:54 AM

Well , more cracks and more lava two
Eruptions going on, this Monday,
All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 12:56 PM

I'm thinking today's big grey nothing is fog, and not smoke. I suppose things might show up better when night comes.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 11:11 AM

Jeri, I agree.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 04:50 PM

Thank you, o Mighty Mud-Elf.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 01:38 PM

I was watching a couple days ago when a couple of hiking families photo-bombed the volcano. They moved the camera, and I don't know if that's why. Personally, that "HEY - LOOK AT ME!" stuff is very annoying.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 01:22 PM

Here's an interesting article about the gases produced by volcanoes. I never knew about CO2 pockets or about gases coming out of the ground near the volcano, ground that looks perfectly innocent.

you can look but don't breathe

I saw two young children at the site yesterday. That strikes me as a very bad idea.

I wonder if the gases emitted by a given volcano are steady, or do they spike and drop in concentration over time? I read that the H2S level here is three times the legal limit, but if it might spike, there is very serious danger.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 01:08 PM

Thanks, Skarpi, for the pronunciation help.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: Jos
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 07:26 AM

I had a look at the live stream just now and a smiling face looked in from the left of the screen - one of the people there watching.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: skarpi
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 06:53 AM

Leeneia ok working on it, instead of like
Go....put e, say Gr but the sound should be on the e like you would say elvis   ,
So Gel-ding-ar-nes...

Nes like in nessy..try this and have fun
All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 03:51 PM

About one-third of the cone has collapsed, giving a clear view of two lava fountains. The collapse must have been quite a site. I'm sorry I missed it.

Subject: RE: BS: new eruption in Iceland
From: leeneia
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 03:48 PM

Don't go away, Skarpi. I need you to tell me how to say the name

Geldingardalir

Please just tell me which syllable is loudest.

AND as the only Icelander here, you have a special place in our hearts.
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Other folks, please remember that we are entering the realm of the chthonic gods here, and we're lucky that a unhandy link is the least we might suffer.