Iceland Eruption Expected: Power Plant Borehole Pressure Change A Sign? Geologist Analysis
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- Geology professor Shawn Willsey provides a brief update on the geologic unrest and growing magma body near Grindavik, Iceland.
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Thank you so much. I think your team is really interested in what happens in Iceland right now. Thank you for your updates. Stay safe!
Yay!! So excited to see your new videos and your colab with Gylfi 🤗🤗🤗
Thanks for the update. Glad you are getting around and seeing some cool places. Appreciate you taking the time to update up. Have lots of fun.
Glad you are enjoying your trip. Crazy the power plant workers sent home yet, blue lagoon is open.
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it's so irresponsible. It's just a disaster waiting to happen.
@CyberBeep_kenshi I've understood in the recent past why the Blue Lagoon was allowed to stay open. They have learned to evacuate quickly and efficiently. That was during the current eruptions to the east. But, this increase in pressure at the power plant has never in its history happened. It's pure greed and gambling with people's lives at the Blue Lagoon, now! The Met Office should shut it down.
Isn't it because the power plant can also operated remotely? Or perhaps, the bore holes are actually more perilous than are being let on? I dunno, but the blue lagoon has to keep staff employed or let them go. As long as they are being responsible, well,.............I see it is a contentious issue.
Hey Shawn Willsey! Thanks for the well articulated information! Glad to hear your having a productive stay in Iceland! I hope you get to climb some rocks! Ride ride ride!
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HS Orku is the company that runs the Svartsengi Power Plant, so it is not a specific borehole. However, in the past events, the borehole data that was used to signal the early signs of an intrusion were all from borehole 12 (the deepest borehole they have), so I think it was data from borehole 12 again. Borehole 12 is at a depth of 2506m.
Did you notice, the change in pressure this time was a decrease - in past intrusions it was an increase of pressure.
9:00 The direction of the eq south of Thorbjorn, take a look at the InSAR images of early May, there is a bit of deformation going on in that area, looks like the magma body has enlarged itself towards the south. The clusters of EQ just NW of Grindavik are all in the area with recent uplift/deformation
So looking forward to your upcoming content from Iceland. Thanks, for taking time out of your busy schedule to update the Team. Fist bump to Gylfi from me.👊💜
Congrats on having a CZcams tour, your knowledge and sensibility make for a most enjoyable and learning experience for anyone who gets that opportunity.
Thanks so much for the information. Certainly we will all be glued if there is an eruption - but would rather have you safe.
Iceland Explorer (Roman) CZcams channel posted a video taken at Blue Lagoon that included a diagram showing the production bore holes which are to the east of the geothermal power plant.
Thank you! Great your YT fans get to do Iceland with you. I will be there in spirit…
Thank you, Shawn. I always understand this complicated situation better with your excellent analysis.
Thank you for all my greater understanding of the geology that interests me, your videos are so good.
Thanks Shawn. So the wait continues 👍😀. Enjoy the rest of your time in Iceland.
@sheilagraham8543 It's a full moon tonight. This might start something.
Thank you Shawn. Your updates are very much appreciated. Glad you were able to catch up with Gylfi. These are exciting, but scary times. Hoping like crazy that Grindavik is spared this time around, and also the other infrastructure. Monitoring the situation 24/7 here in Darwin, Australia. Iceland is very dear to our hearts even though we are so far away. Take care, and we look forward to your next update … 😁
Thanks Shawn. Really learning a lot from your videos. Appreciate your taking the time.
Thanks for the update and enjoy your time up there. It is a bucket list location for me.
Appreciate you woring updates for us into your busy schedule. So hoping something of geological interest happens while you're there and glad you're heading back down south to be "on the spot" so to speak.
Thank you Shawn for your information! Stay safe as always my friend! I hope you have the opportunity to see new earth in the making!👍
Thanks for the update!! Appreciate your taking time out from your trip to keep us up to date!
Hey Shawn! Thanks for the update always good to hear from you. Just a little request, the next time you contact Amanda Jo could you get some info on whether the fish processing plant in Grindavik is in operation? With the increasing daylight hours they must be getting into their peak fishing season there. Also could you point out that this is the off season for visitors to the Blue Lagoon. Roman, of Icelandic Explorer, who is a tour bus driver said that he only gets tour groups to the Blue Lagoon maybe once or twice a week now. Two weeks ago he filmed from there and the restaurants looked pretty empty and only a dozen or so people were in the Lagoon itself.
enjoy your time in Iceland! Thanks for the update!
Im so glad you have this opportunity.
Hey Shawn! Thank you so much for tonight's update, great information as usual! Would like to know more about the borehole, just like you... Can't wait to see the cool videos you made in the North! 😉 Hello and thanks also to @MandieJo and Gylfi 😊 Until next time, take care!
Dr Wilsey, Justicelandic had a series of interesting drone flights over other volcanic systems that are believed to be inactive but his thermal imaging scans of those fields showed what looked to me like significant amounts of latent thermal energy being emitted from the ground of the older flow areas of these other larger volcanic systems.
Thanks for the updates during your vacation, Shawn. Very much appreciated! ✌️💙
Have a good time and stay safe.
I love Akureyri, hospital services were superb. Thanks Shawn for update
Iceland's geothermal power plants have 50 high temperature boreholes that range in depth from 100 meters to 2,200 meters. Of these, 33 are currently connected to the power plant, producing steam at temperatures of 280°C-380°C. Straight from google. :D
Thanks for all of your hard work man!
Thank you, Professor.
I think you are a workaolic! 🤔But we do appreciate your updates whenever you post! 😀
I've watched the original and am enjoying watching your reactions.
Thanks, Shawn. The increase of pressure in the bore holes is very interesting. Stay safe.
Thank you Shawn 😊 great update its fascinating what our world 🌎 is capable of I look forward to your next instalment 😊
Thank you for the update. Greetings from France
Thanks, Shawn. I’m looking forward to your interview with Gylfi and more videos from Iceland.
I am such a skeptic as to how data is interpreted by various groups. I chuckled to myself at your comment that you could interpret the data anyway you wanted to. That is the single most honest comment I have ever heard in regards to data points
The first I became aware of how active this area has become was with a podcast by Gylfi.
I didn't have to watch for long to be aware of his love for this land & it's unique geology.
It was through exploring the scientific aspects of Gylfi's Drone videos that I found your informative pod casts Shawn.
Thanks to both of you!
Say hi to Gylfi for me .. let him know how much I appreciate his love for the homeland!
Hi Shawn! Delighted to have you connecting direct.
enjoy your trip perfectly timed for events happening
Currently catching these updates while traveling in Japan. Looking forward to the interview
Thanks shawn. It really is a right old waiting game, innit. Hope your having a great time. Fingers crossed for even a cute eruption for you.
Really enjoy these updates and look forward to them! Thank you for doing them from Iceland during you trip as well. It really adds excitement to the reports! Travel safe and enjoy!
Love your updates! Thank you! 👍❤️
Thanks Shawn, you're very busy!
Thank you for the honest update
Thanks for the update again. Hope you actually have a little bit of time for some fun and relaxing sense your on a short vacation after the students went home.
Thanks so much and stay safe 😊
Thanks again for the updates
Please do a video on the Campi Flegrei earthquake swarm and uplift. So hard to get good information on whether some kind of eruption is imminent and what kind it could be. They say magma at 2.5km -magma lake 200km.Thanks!!
What is a magma lake? 👀 Is it different from a chamber?
Hello Shawn. Ask Gylfi when you see him about a significant ground shift that happened last year at the power plant.
The whole surface shifted westward at that time.
Thank you Shawn, watching and learning .. enjoy Iceland
Thanks!
Thank you.
I wonder what the average citizen thinks of their scientists’ predictions. Thanks for the update!
Sounds like an interesting trip.Thanks for the update.🐒
Thanks
Thank you Shawn! Safe travels.
Thank you Shaun. Enjoy your trip. 😊
It’s starting to make me a little nervous in that when the eruption happens it’s going to be huge, not sure if that’s a valid supposition ie. the amount of magma that has accumulated, given that these past eruptions have happened with a lot less magma! Anyway, we wait & see what happens hey 🤷♀️
Nice update Shawn, thanks.
I noted the Meteorological Agency said there was a minor pressure drop, however Professor Magnus Tuni talked about an increase in pressure in the boreholes. I wonder which was it or if it was both? What exactly are they measuring the pressure of...the underground water pressure?
They should be transparent with the data.
Thank you Shawn for your update.
Greetings from NM, USA
Your videos are very enlightening Thank you!
Thank you for sharing! Great video! Alway very interesting! 😊
Thank you for sharing.
Thx Prof for another interesting geo-adventure. ✌🏻 safe travels.
Just love your updates.
I watch the quakes in your reports almost every day. I would love to see a 3D graph of earthquakes where the quake's depth determines the height of the quake, hanging under the surface. Cause I would imagine stuff in the -10K quakes operate differently than the -1K quakes, and you could visualize that better
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Thank you!
Thanks Shawn!
Thank you ❤
💙💛 Thank you Shawn!
You are in Akureyri, where I grew up... 👍
Love Akureyi! Especially their stop lights!
Iceland is one of my favorite places ever. If these videos intrigue you, get yourself some tickets. Iceland is absolutely memorable and is a super easy destination of english speakers. The people are so great.
And witnessing an eruption personally will affect you in ways you can't understand until you're standing there.
Can you say something about the developing situational Campi Flegrei Supervolcan in Naples, Italy?
Shawn isn’t answering questions about Campi Flegrei, sorry.
-Mod Team
🎵Its a long way to Akureyri,🎶
Its a long way to go...🎶
My money is on the most recent cone and that spot which has been smoking for the last 60 days as being the sites of next activity. But then, I am a big fan of low hanging fruit.
Akureyri? You lucky person, stunning up there.
Agree. I was there last year, just about this time of the year. Loved it, even though our small ship (
Hey Shawn !
Italy had a 4.4 and France had a 4.0. Alot could be Tetonic......plate moving. The West Coast of Southern California and Hawaii have had alot of activity. Alot of movement everywhere. Alot of Deep EQ around the world.
Have you seen what's happening with Naples and the volcanoes there today?
That Italian bad boy is cooking up something
He's going to miss the big eruption in Italy. Probably the biggest one of our lives!
Shawn will not be answering questions about Campi Flegrei.
-Mod Team
If you ever make it to Golden, Colorado could you look at north and south tabletop and explain how the basalt cap towers ended up on the two masses but where the basalt came from.
Thanks for the update. I look forward to seeing the videos you are producing and learning about what you are finding. Just wondering -- What time is sunrise and sunset in Iceland now? Seeing any aurora?
Too light out.
liked n commented!
Great update, Shawn.
You and your next group might see an eruption!
Thought/suggestion: plota graph of borehole pressure/time, plotted against GPS y.?
If water in a well increases pressure, would that be indicative that upward movement from deep below has been greater than upward movement at surface, thus reducing volume available for the water in the water table ad hence water wanting to exit via wells?
If now, I am curious on the relationship between well rpessure increaing and maga chamber filling up since I was under impression they were completely separate.
Thanks Shawn for a well informed update buddy, you caught up with Gylfi as yet? Hope you’re enjoying the time in Iceland 👍😇 God Bless
Yeah, think he's got a ton of preserved shark meat for you. You have been warned.
@@areareare9953 Sorry?
First look at your trip , very interesting . Side note : solar forcing (plasma form )intrusion of electromagnetic charge to the mantle. Love solar / space science, any connection to quakes and magma movements in your studies ? Love to know ?
Why can we not see the latest met office updates here in New Zealand? 🤔 When we go to the website we can only see the 16th of May update. It always seems to be lagging here for some reason which is annoying
I use Icelandic, not English, version.
As Shawn said, the Icelandic website updates first then a few days later the update comes out in English.
Access the met office website in the Chrome browser and use the translate function to see it in English
Hello Prof. 😊
Italy 🇮🇹 earthquake super volcano News you've heard? It's been in the news lately ...??
All the best 😊
Lincoln, N.E. 🌱
Have you noticed what is happening at Pozzoli?
So if you were vacationing in iceland and with your knowledge and experience, would you stay away from Blue Lagoon at this point in time? Not too familiar with the area or how close this is. Scheduled to visit in 3 weeks and this looks like its about to go at any moment, so may not matter before we arrive.
There are many other thermal / outdoor heated pools in Iceland you can visit. There is one in Reykavik called the Sky Lagoon. The Blue Lagoon is very expensive, and I know I wouldn't personally risk a visit there at this present time. Hope you enjoy your trip.
@@ange5673 Appreciate the info, were booked for sky lagoon as well, we just wanted to experience it but agree with you from sources other than the BL website, the risk is high and getting higher daily.
You should not change your vacation. I will be back down there later today. 99% of country is unaffected.
Have you ever study the Silurian Hills North of Baker, CA?
What's happened to the "blue lagoon"? Can you visit and use?
Still open.
If you had watched, you would know...
Wish I was there with you all. It's all so different from albany western Australia wendy
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Is the international airport safe?????
Yes completely.