Why is There a Huge Eruption in Iceland? Science is Figuring Out the Volcanic Mystery

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  • čas přidán 11. 09. 2024

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  • @Sindrijo
    @Sindrijo Před měsícem +187

    The video fails to mention that one person has died, a rescue worker fell into a hidden crack in Grindavík that suddenly opened beneath him, his body was not recoverable as the Earth has claimed it. His name was Lúðvík Pétursson, born on 22nd august 1973 and went missing 10th of January 2024. Rest in peace.

    • @ChickpeaCity
      @ChickpeaCity Před měsícem +1

      Lol what rescue worker. That man was working for a company not part of any rescue team.

    • @lucianalliancestargate6475
      @lucianalliancestargate6475 Před měsícem

      I'm sorry for your loss.

    • @shaunpapworth4269
      @shaunpapworth4269 Před měsícem +11

      Rest in peace Mr Lúðvík Pétursson 💐❤

    • @nlwilson4892
      @nlwilson4892 Před měsícem +13

      I think this documentary was made before that death. Also, the ground didn't suddenly open up, the crack was there and they were trying to repair the road.

    • @sigisoltau6073
      @sigisoltau6073 Před měsícem +11

      ​@@nlwilson4892It was made after. At the 1:38 mark lava is flowing over the road leading in and out of the Blue Lagoon area, on the north side of it. That's the February 8 eruption that covered the road and destroyed the hot water pipes.

  • @conceptinterface
    @conceptinterface Před měsícem +60

    Video production note: The captioning uses a creative "magma wave" effect, but since it sweeps UP, the caption is readable only at the bottom at first. By the time the effect is done, the beginning of the caption is only visible for a few seconds. Though pretty, this effect should sweep DOWN, so the viewer can read the text in the order that we read text!

    • @jespervanderkaa6759
      @jespervanderkaa6759 Před měsícem +8

      Agreed yes. I found the choice of the reversed effect quite odd. The video is very interesting and educational though. Very well put together.

    • @conceptinterface
      @conceptinterface Před měsícem +5

      @@jespervanderkaa6759 Yes, a very interesting and well-produced video with good content. I imagine that the text effect was intended to evoke the rise of lava through the surface. But form usually should follow function!

    • @Vito_Tuxedo
      @Vito_Tuxedo Před měsícem +4

      Actually, the ill-conceived choice of the text effect (displaying from bottom to top) is typical of the gradual decline in quality of Scientific American content over the last 60 years.

    • @eecarolinee
      @eecarolinee Před 25 dny

      @@Vito_Tuxedo I subscribed to SciAm as a 7th grader in the 1960s.
      Yes.. their quality has diminished.. and they are getting more and more woke and therefore political and superstitious.
      Wokeness is profound ignorance and outright superstition thinking itself wise and superior.... to the point of censoring all other concepts.
      Wokeness is the same mentality that fueled the Inquisition and the Salem Witch trials.
      Or so it seems to me.

    • @SparkyOne549
      @SparkyOne549 Před 20 dny

      I didn’t notice anything unusual about the text. I didn’t have trouble reading anything.

  • @momsilk6072
    @momsilk6072 Před měsícem +60

    I'd recognize Isak Finnbogason's drone footage anywhere... Spectacular footage!

    • @jpsholland
      @jpsholland Před měsícem

      But it is not credited, so it is stolen.

    • @schamka
      @schamka Před měsícem +7

      @@jpsholland 24:39 credits

    • @IcelandFPV
      @IcelandFPV Před 10 dny

      Thank you! They did not steal my work, they paid for it and you will find my name there in the credit list🙂

  • @fairviewtv
    @fairviewtv Před měsícem +51

    The blur-wipe on the subtitles was totally annoying and unnecessary

  • @tegneren
    @tegneren Před měsícem +46

    Whoever thought it was a good idea to fade in the on-screen text blocks from the bottom up needs to find a new job.
    Having to wait to start reading is really annoying and distracts from the otherwise good video

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 Před měsícem +1

      I thought it was wonderful.

    • @jimmiller1686
      @jimmiller1686 Před 16 dny +1

      i often wonder if videos are vetted by their creators before being posted. i doubt it.

    • @Mark-fl3kx
      @Mark-fl3kx Před 15 dny

      I find it very annoying too

    • @artysanmobile
      @artysanmobile Před 14 dny

      The entire video is an example of how NOT to produce content. You’d think, hey Scientific American knows what they’re doing…. Well, no, apparently not.

    • @GeneralCostache
      @GeneralCostache Před 13 dny

      Not only was I going to write the same comment, but I would have used the exact same words.

  • @MaddyN999
    @MaddyN999 Před měsícem +25

    Nice recap of what’s been happening with a look inside the Met Office. Great drone footage by Isak!

  • @robaire.b
    @robaire.b Před měsícem +26

    Interesting video. Sometimes hard to understand what is being said as oddly there seems to be a noisy orchestra practising and tuning up nearby

    • @artysanmobile
      @artysanmobile Před 14 dny

      Never let up on this amateurish production flaw. I see it all the time on CZcams. There are ‘rules’ that exist for excellent reasons and beginners think they have a better idea. Music OR dialog. OR, not AND.

  • @juju9410
    @juju9410 Před měsícem +8

    Thank you for a very informative documentary told by the people and experts in Iceland. It’s heartbreaking to see the town of Grindavik being damaged and destroyed. I hope its residents can find peace, happiness and stability in time.

  • @domcizek
    @domcizek Před 19 dny +10

    GET RID OF THE BLUR ON WHAT WE CAN READ, VERY DISTRACTING

  • @Horsemom121
    @Horsemom121 Před měsícem +39

    Interesting video! Thank you! Next, I am going to watch a video by Shawn Willsey. He has a bunch of videos about Iceland. Love Shawn! He explains things really well.

    • @quake_er1149
      @quake_er1149 Před 16 dny +2

      I really enjoy his videos too! He explains in terms that even a lay person can understand. Very down to earth

  • @gregwilvert
    @gregwilvert Před měsícem +30

    The way you blur the first line of text is weird

  • @susantrott3338
    @susantrott3338 Před měsícem +5

    This was excellent! I would love to see more, based on the most recent eruption which was the most powerful and largest. If you can continue this story, I would watch! You have presented the information clearly and it has given me a better understanding of the situation and I've learned a lot. So thank you very much.

  • @Hraesvelg
    @Hraesvelg Před měsícem +12

    Fascianting documentary and great interviewees. Really well produced.

  • @SJR_Media_Group
    @SJR_Media_Group Před měsícem +8

    I live in Washington State... watching flood basalt coming out of fissures is good way to visualize what happened here 16 million years ago. Our lava traveled hundreds of miles from our eastern borders all the way to Pacific Ocean. It was not witnessed by humans because they didn't exist then. Looking at many separate flows, and over a mile thick... it is almost too big to comprehend...

    • @vixeliaOG
      @vixeliaOG Před měsícem +1

      Netflix has a good visual doc on what earth went thru. The volcanos they describe are continent wide. It has seven chapters, beginning 4 billion years ago for 1st chapter.

    • @SJR_Media_Group
      @SJR_Media_Group Před měsícem

      @@vixeliaOG Thanks for comment and information...

    • @ron_m21
      @ron_m21 Před měsícem

      ​@@vixeliaOGtitle?

  • @HumanitarianV4VGlobal
    @HumanitarianV4VGlobal Před měsícem +4

    Devastated for the residents of Grindavik 🥺🙏

    • @vixeliaOG
      @vixeliaOG Před měsícem

      I figure you assume the risk when you live on top of magma. Same with hurricanes you know they're coming one day.

  • @brianpriest2930
    @brianpriest2930 Před měsícem +3

    Where I live (Midwest USA) it easy to forget how dynamic the earth is . The endless plains around me don’t change in any obvious way, yet everything I see and know is constantly moving (North American plate). We deal with tornadoes, yet the out gassing from volcanic activity affects the atmosphere. It’s shocking to learn that at one point Yellowstone (Wyoming, MT and ID) was fairly tropical. Our journey on this plate has been occurring long before we got here and will occur long after we’re gone. Yes, the planet is very dynamic.

    • @vixeliaOG
      @vixeliaOG Před měsícem

      Oh but wait! Look up the formations in your area. You live in a place that use to be seaside. The formations tell you stories millions of years old.

  • @poetmaggie1
    @poetmaggie1 Před 18 dny +2

    Iceland's volcanos are not a mystery. Its 2 Continental plates running away from each other. There is nothing to solve and nothing to do about it.

  • @sbaumgartner9848
    @sbaumgartner9848 Před 17 dny +1

    Excellent. Watching a volcano erupt is mesmerizing. However we have to remember it can be deadly for humans and nature.

  • @lucadegerth6665
    @lucadegerth6665 Před 9 dny +1

    Bravo👏🏻 best documantary i've seen in a long time. Good job Micah💪

  • @nikomurtomaki3504
    @nikomurtomaki3504 Před měsícem +2

    Laki wasn't a satellite system of the Katla volcano; rather a fissure vent of the Grimsvötn volcano located closest to the icelandic hotspot!

  • @nlwilson4892
    @nlwilson4892 Před měsícem +3

    I was really interested in this, but had to stop watching, the "music" playing when I'm trying to listen to people speak is just too annoying and makes it hard to follow. The blurred captions that fade in from the bottom just add to the irritation.

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 Před měsícem

      We Joy be goy.
      Nee Floy the key soy
      Boy

  • @imann6355
    @imann6355 Před měsícem +2

    Very informative, thanks for the great video

  • @robertslugg8361
    @robertslugg8361 Před měsícem +1

    The Nick Zentner town hall video series from 8-10 years ago is a great introduction to geological processes. Pretty much everything geologically has happened in Oregon and Washington. Driving through the Columbia Gorge one can see a vertical kilometer of multiple basaltic flows over the last 20 miliion years. It really puts things on a different scale. What is happening on the Penninsula is a geological burp at best.

    • @gabbyn978
      @gabbyn978 Před měsícem

      You forgot one thing. Like Hawaii, Iceland is at the top of a hot spot (not only these two tectonic plates pulling apart). This why this place is above the water. And that also means, there is a volcanic building below the island. Close to the south eastern coastline, the ocean floor drops by 1300 meters, a bit further out it is 1600 meters, that is close to a mile. This happened in a timespan of 17 to 20 million years.
      Sounds familiar, eh?

    • @mostlyvoid.partiallystars
      @mostlyvoid.partiallystars Před 14 dny

      Nick’s lectures are fantastic

  • @glenlongstreet7
    @glenlongstreet7 Před měsícem +2

    I am happy that the geologists are talking about the plates. One side of Iceland is on the Eurasian plate and the other side is on the American plate. The question is, why are these plates are moving up and down. I am certainly not a geologist, but I can't help but think about what is happening next door in Greenland.
    Greenland is very big and very heavy, and that is changing. How many tons of water have flowed off of the Greenland icesheets every day for the past few decades?
    There is nothing we can do about that. So let us imagine that we can do something, imagine being the key word.
    I feel very bad for the inhabitants of the two cities that are being affected, but it would probably be best if you moved to somewhere else. Your life is more valuable than your house.

    • @melodiefrances3898
      @melodiefrances3898 Před měsícem

      It's kind of creepy to think about what is happening in Greenland and its possible repercussions beyond the island itself.

    • @kennethloki7011
      @kennethloki7011 Před 27 dny

      The mid-Atlantic rift goes right through Iceland. The plates aren't going up and down, they're spreading apart. As that happens, it creates a path for magma to rise. In Iceland, it's creating more land. But on the ocean floor, it's creating new crust.

  • @VicVegaTW
    @VicVegaTW Před měsícem +17

    this is interesting but your music is too intense

  • @maxblair3317
    @maxblair3317 Před 15 dny

    Great documentary! Very interesting timing as well, as there is yet another volcanic event happening right now at the Reykjaness peninsula!

  • @MrMdamon808
    @MrMdamon808 Před 14 dny +1

    Great report but the way that the subtitles and text were done was terrible. Why on earth would someone create subtitles in which only the second half of each line is visible to start with? It makes the text a nightmare to read. Because the eye is drawn to the recognizable letters first. Only to find that they not the beginning of the sentence, making the eye scan back over the first half of each line after it resolves. It is genuinely exhausting to read.

  • @joelark2007
    @joelark2007 Před měsícem +1

    Stayed in hotel grindavik before this went off hope the owner and his family are ok great food at their restaurant above the rooms be safe

  • @louisea966
    @louisea966 Před měsícem

    great video, amazing footage, love Isak Finnbogason's drone work!

  • @odilejouanne4323
    @odilejouanne4323 Před měsícem

    Thanks a lot for this recap. Very well done ! Congrats and stay safe❤

  • @martenrange1940
    @martenrange1940 Před 9 dny

    Thanks for a very interesting story.

  • @gabbyn978
    @gabbyn978 Před měsícem

    How old is this documentation, nine months? Meanwhile the landscape has been drastically altered by masses of lava, in some places more than 50 feet in thickness.

  • @teamhadd5235
    @teamhadd5235 Před 19 dny +2

    Why the weird thing with the subtitles?

  • @alexhope212009
    @alexhope212009 Před 16 dny

    How much worse would these erruptions need to get before Iceland becomes unlivable I wonder, if anything like the historic island building eruptions they are not stopping anytime soon.

  • @thedonof1
    @thedonof1 Před měsícem +3

    Not a whole lot of science here. more personal stories

  • @michaelnaretto3409
    @michaelnaretto3409 Před 15 dny

    It's sad those people have to probably permanently leave their homes. Mother Nature can be cruel....

  • @corlisscrabtree3647
    @corlisscrabtree3647 Před 15 dny

    Thank you 🙏🏼

  • @skeggiskjeldarson6639
    @skeggiskjeldarson6639 Před 15 dny

    In Iceland this is called a tourist eruption. The Eyafjalla eruption 2010 var not regarded as huge. But of course for novices and unexperienced people.....

  • @Dragrath1
    @Dragrath1 Před měsícem

    First I should note that there are a few other places where mid ocean ridge segments are exposed to the surface though both are more atypical events associated with ongoing continental rifting within subsiding rift basins only kept dry by the aridity of Southern California USA, Baja California Mexico and east Africa. There is also evidence from seismic tomography that the slow sheer velocity discontinuity associated with the Juan de Fuca ridge and East Pacific Rise takes a more extensive dive beneath North America likely connecting it to the Basin and Range and Colorado plateau activity but this is a very complex and unusual setting even if it too shows eruptive clustering in time for example the 7 lava domes of the Salton Buttes volcanos most recent eruptive period seem likely to have occurred within an interval of around 500 years the last occurring a little less than 2000 years ago. Core drilling shows there are older eruptive periods but the subsidence and sediment deposition into the Salton sea basin has buried them so its hard to piece out past cycles but it seems to behave in a similar manner to a lesser degree.
    As for the Laki eruption it appears to have been a fissure eruption associated with the Mid Atlantic Ridge that occurred along the Faultline where Grimsvotn's main magma chamber resides which is entirely basaltic in composition unlike many of the volcanoes of central and or northeastern Iceland. Its behavior was smaller and less explosive than Kaltla's Eldgjá eruption of ~938 which involved the mixing and discharge of Kaltla's rhyolitic magma chamber via a series of Plinian and Sub Plinian phases and the large climatically devastating . Luckily there is no sustained central volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula so the rest of a similar event here seems quite unlikely without a large central volcanoes magma chamber to evacuate
    It is also incorrect to state that the Earth is molten beneath our feet it seems melt generation is only present in a narrow window before eruptive activity.
    The one fatality was also not mentioned neither was the disconnection of hot water from the power plant with the only footage of the February eruption appearing to just get tacked on at the end suggesting the program was largely completed before these events with minor addition tacked on at the end.

  • @deadastronaut2440
    @deadastronaut2440 Před 12 dny

    The current eruption/s in Reykjanes Iceland is actually very small, contrary to the sensational, and ironically very unscientific headline for this video. For comparison the Holuhraun eruption ten years ago was ten times bigger and the Laki eruption in 1784 was even bigger.

  • @LeifurHakonarson
    @LeifurHakonarson Před 20 dny +1

    Don't forget that if it weren't for volcanism there wouldn't be an Iceland - just sea bottom (much like Hawaii). It's a love-hate relationship if ever there was one 🙂

    • @baomao7243
      @baomao7243 Před 16 dny

      I always ponder something similar when i visit Japan and find myself looking at a nuclear power station. Nuclear power sounds like such a great, safe idea. But then you realize building a Nuclear power plant in Japan (i.e., “on top of a volcano” feels MUCH less safe. Earthquakes every day in Japan and yet here we are - millions of lives - hoping “not today” about a major seismic/volcanic event.

  • @jpsholland
    @jpsholland Před měsícem +1

    which mystery?

  • @Mieke..
    @Mieke.. Před měsícem

    That's awesome! 🧡👍

  • @leemccabemccabe5627
    @leemccabemccabe5627 Před 11 dny

    The Earth's Core !

  • @Darin970
    @Darin970 Před 15 dny

    It's the speed of our planet spinning that causes friction in the center of the planet that causes the rock to melt into magma

  • @leemccabemccabe5627
    @leemccabemccabe5627 Před 11 dny

    Iceland Home Delivery ❤️ 💯 👍

  • @melodiefrances3898
    @melodiefrances3898 Před 18 dny +1

    I was expecting a lot more science tbh ... oh well.

  • @sirensynapse5603
    @sirensynapse5603 Před 16 dny

    Mystery? Volcanos go boom. This is known.

  • @AngelineThompson-w1o
    @AngelineThompson-w1o Před 14 dny

    It’s a spirit

  • @shadygremlin9702
    @shadygremlin9702 Před 14 dny

    Creating a New Land ?

  • @Iskandar64
    @Iskandar64 Před 16 dny +1

    I was expecting more science - disappointed!

  • @helenaziegler6005
    @helenaziegler6005 Před měsícem +1

    Iceland is a mid-ocean ridge plus a hot-spot, thus the uplift is remarkable, the area became subaerial and could be inhabited. Basically, it is a wonderful open-air laboratory. The mantle below is very productive in terms of magma genesis.

  • @petramaas8574
    @petramaas8574 Před měsícem +3

    Title "Science is solving Iceland's dangerous volcano mystery" is just click bait. Maybe somewhere near the end, but after 5 minutes of a lot of people producing short bursts of speech with very little consistency, I've seen enough.

  • @Darin970
    @Darin970 Před 15 dny

    Volcanoes is what made our planet the size that it is and it also made the atmosphere around it🙂😇

  • @robertmoye7565
    @robertmoye7565 Před 17 dny

    Well, the headline for the video is a lie isn't it? There was nothing about "Solving Iceland's Dangerous Volcanic Mystery", was there? This kind of pathetic false flag promotion is unworthy of Scientific American, a once great institution.

  • @omamale69
    @omamale69 Před 29 dny +1

    Sadly, I haven't learned anything new from this video

  • @yousifatobiya7279
    @yousifatobiya7279 Před měsícem

    Abstract :
    The energy that dominates the earth is very great, some of it is natural, like the heat of the sun and volcanoes, and some of it is human action, by cutting down trees, without replacing them and cultivating in their place...
    There are five forces that control or dominate the planet...
    1- The first theory (horizontal dynamic movement) and its end...
    The occurrence of storms, rain, floods and snow, at unexpected times and places, is because of the expiration of this theory, which needs to be balanced...
    2- The second theory (vertical dynamic movement) and its end...
    This movement or force controls or dominates the earthquakes, earth cracks, drying up of rivers and lakes, earth openings, mountain collapses, and the emergence of drinking water springs on the ground...
    It becomes out of control...
    These phenomena increased due to the end of this theory...
    The third theory: it is water that rotates the earth...
    The fourth theory: the Earth's axis of rotation has tilted 2° degrees...
    The fifth theory: The Earth has a new orbit...
    These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000
    YOUSIF A TOBIYA

  • @arnesundstrom302
    @arnesundstrom302 Před měsícem

    Unbearable music,i quit

  • @MyKharli
    @MyKharli Před 20 dny

    Is Scientific American still going ? i dumped them after their shameless fossil fuel coverage . `Were living in interesting times ` aka a climate catastrophe partially enabled by publishers like SA

  • @robertfindley921
    @robertfindley921 Před měsícem

    Such an interesting video and only one comment (now 2). Maybe if they got Taylor Swift to narrate it

    • @DavidKJohnson1988
      @DavidKJohnson1988 Před měsícem +4

      The video had just been posted. Maybe give people a chance to see it first?

  • @AngelineThompson-w1o
    @AngelineThompson-w1o Před 16 dny

    Child abusing
    The Holy Spirit
    Is making thugs poor
    They know no age
    It’s a sin

  • @gabrielehanne580
    @gabrielehanne580 Před měsícem

    Do you understand though what the earth is trying to tell humans ?
    This is an important lesson .
    Pay attention . Look at the images ! What comes to mind? Mankind is being given a crucial clue .

  • @yousifatobiya7279
    @yousifatobiya7279 Před měsícem

    The occurrence of stoms,rains,ice, and floods at times and in unexpected places,confirms my theory the end of the (dynamic horizontal movement )which needs to balance and it sill under control to balance...
    But about earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, tsunami, dry lakes and rivers, flow of water from the mountains and hills,explodeand of eyes water from the ground, formation of new mountains or islands, collaps of mountains ,and cracks on ground,& ,& ,&,they are out of control or balance...
    Note :The earth will become like Venus...
    Yousif A Tobiya

  • @yousifatobiya7279
    @yousifatobiya7279 Před měsícem

    Thousands of scientific letters were sent to all parts of the world, warning them to stop the melting of the ice caps at the poles and the Himalayas, to reduce earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and terrestrial eclipses, and and and...
    Yousif A Tobiya

  • @yousifatobiya7279
    @yousifatobiya7279 Před měsícem

    I give you the reasons, and the solutions...
    Who knows the reasons, knows the solutions... Any natural phenomenon must be balanced naturally...
    I am very sorry to say that the time is going to be over, and on some phenomenons is over...
    There is a lot around sciences, but very few of them scientists...
    This kind of people will lead people to the loss of land and their future...
    Yousif A Tobiya
    Forcibly displaced

  • @RalphWhittington
    @RalphWhittington Před měsícem

    Move y sad people don't live on volcano how sad r people on Iceland got to live on volcano

  • @RalphWhittington
    @RalphWhittington Před měsícem +1

    It's only volcano u live on one so don't worry about it don't live on volcano 🌋 so move

  • @CStoph1979
    @CStoph1979 Před měsícem

    Did you know the earth grows? It wasn't always this size. What we are seeing now are just the beginnings of the next stage.
    Enough focused energy at the core of the earth could create mass. Einstein said so.
    Explains things a lot better than floating continents imho.

    • @melodiefrances3898
      @melodiefrances3898 Před měsícem +3

      Since you are obviously thinking about this I strongly recommend you start reading up on it. The evidence for the moving plates is extremely compelling.

    • @vixeliaOG
      @vixeliaOG Před měsícem +1

      Of course. Earth started as a speck one dust speck collected another etc. Water ice wasn't born here it collected on earth. Every grain came from space which means it grew into this.

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 Před měsícem +1

      The earth doesn't grow to any significant amount.
      A few comets here and there

    • @CStoph1979
      @CStoph1979 Před měsícem

      @@rdallas81 Wrong.

    • @b.a.erlebacher1139
      @b.a.erlebacher1139 Před měsícem +1

      No, mass is not created from nothingness in the center of the earth. Einstein never said any such thing.