[News] Area of Iceland being torn apart by volcanic activity

[KZNSeagull]

It's just been described on BBC news as like a "real life lava lamp".

 

[Papa Lazarou]

from the Video feed, it looks like this is the are to the North of the Blue Lagoon and the hydrothermal power plant.

Here

 

[KZNSeagull]

That barrier has worked up to a point but it is about to be outflanked

 

[Papa Lazarou]

That barrier has worked up to a point but it is about to be outflanked

It encircles the blue lagoon and power plant, so the lava would need to overtop it.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

It encircles the blue lagoon and power plant, so the lava would need to overtop it.

Nope. it doesn't!

They're desperately trying to close the gap where to road it now

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I don't rate their chances with 1 digger

 

[Papa Lazarou]

It looks like the lava is about to win

 

[Bozza]

It's like watching people playing a high-stakes version of chicken with the waves on a beach.

 

[Eric the meek]

It looks like the lava is headed straight for the Blue Lagoon.

Which is kind of where you would expect a fissure to head for, it being a point where hot springs, heated from a magma chamber below, have broken the surface.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

It looks like the lava is headed straight for the Blue Lagoon.

Which is kind of where you would expect a fissure to head for, it being a point where hot springs, heated from a magma chamber below, have broken the surface.

It's skirting around the northern side of it. The barrier is there to stop it, but as thew video is showing they left the roads open, and are frantically trying to close the gap. Luckily the lava is currently flowing in a narrow channel just past the gap, but as it slows, the lava flow may widen and thicken.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

If you want to see 3 different views, including the one we're watching this is for you



Includes a map of where the latest fissure is.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Human ingenuity v lava.

You got to say that's good contest. i'm calling it for lava, but I reckon the people will make a decent fist of it

 

[Nobby]

Looks like Mother Nature 1 Human Beings 0

Human's looked to take it to extra time - but a hopeless cause.

Bit like the overall position on global warming

 

[Bozza]

Looks like Mother Nature 1 Human Beings 0

Human's looked to take it to extra time - but a hopeless cause.

Bit like the overall position on global warming

The humans need Enciso to be available, even if only on the bench.

He'd unleash a thunderbastard at it, and stop it in its tracks.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Well they have plugged the road gap and the lava is flowing quite quickly in that channel behind it, so perhaps the humans have managed to push this one into extra time. For now.

 

[Nobby]

The humans need Enciso to be available, even if only on the bench.

He'd unleash a thunderbastard at it, and stop it in its tracks.

As long as Roy isn't the manager and brings him on to get injured again just before said shot.
And the lava would slowly move forward with Roy and Parish deciding what to do as it slowly licked their toecaps.

 

[Simster]

The humans need Enciso to be available, even if only on the bench.

He'd unleash a thunderbastard at it, and stop it in its tracks.

I suspect it is unlikely that the Icelandic authorities would let Julio Enciso anywhere near a molten lava flow. And if he was allowed to kick a football vociferously in the direction of the lava, I'm afraid it would simply turn into a ball of fire on impact, regardless of how hard he puts his foot through it.

I also suspect his agent would advise against it.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I expect them to return with a fire extinguisher shortly - that'll stop it.

Absolute shambles. The place has gone downhill since Kerry Katona left.

 

[Zeberdi]

Erupting again

Sundhnúkar - Live from Iceland - Webcams around Iceland

Looking towards the eruption near Sundhnúkagígar, north of Grindavík, from Mt. Þorbjörn. The eruption started December 18th at 22:17:17. Watch live feeds from our webcams with spectacular views of Iceland. Our streaming cameras are placed all around Iceland and broadcast 24/7. The ultimate slow TV!

livefromiceland.is

Iceland evacuations as volcano spews lava again

It is the fourth eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula since December - and Grindavik is evacuated again.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

If you go about three hours into this live feed, at 20.23 local time on the dot, is the moment it erupts. Which is pretty cool.