The Hekla Eruption in 1947 - Spectacular but Scary Footage
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2021
- This might be the scariest footage from an Icelandic volcano in action but it was recorded during the 11 month eruption in Hekla In 1947-1948. This is the volcano that sent 20 kg of rock over 30 kilometres like a cannonball and one Icelandic scientist was fatally injured as he was recording the event you see in this video. Not only can Hekla produce fire fountains, explosive ejection of rocks, but also hot and devastating pyroclastic flows.
Note that I do not discuss geological theories on my channel because I do not have the education not the training to do so on professional basis. So those who want to dive deep into the mysteries of the volcano Hekla from a scientific point of view are advised to start on the link below, and continue on the web because there is plenty of good information about there.
My role is as usual to find, edit and make good but sometimes old footage available in English, bring you news of major events and explain how Icelanders work with or against the forces of nature that sometimes takes the control from us. I will also show you photo's and video's from my growing collection of geological formations in Iceland.
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You were spot on in predicting unrest in the peninsula...here we are, 2023/24 and unrest it is!
Yes I wish I was wrong, given how this turned out for Grindavik
OMG what was those people thinking. Such a dangerous toxic zone. Thanks for sharing 😊
Yes it's hard to see what was those people thinking 😊
Some of the most fascinating footage of this video is showing the places where the CO2 has built up in small depressions in the landscape, evidenced by the torches being extinguished.
My favorite parts were the lava river coming out of the "portal" and the smoke ring at the end.
Thank you! This is incredible!
Thank you, I agree, it's one of the best from here, and fine quality for it's age...
This was my favourite video so far. Just amazing in every way. Loved the old footage. Thankyou. 👏
Another fantastic video. Whoever colorized the footage and converted it to digital did an incredible job. I’ve noticed your commentary has been steadily improving as well. Your channel has been one of my favorite finds of the past year. Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot, I'm still getting used to the mic but it was harder than I thought at first, but it's just a matter of finding my own tempo because I will need it later on when I will be driving around the country again :). But the footage is from a colour film! And it's so rare to find so old stuff in good quality, but lots more of old stuff will appear on my channel very soon :) and always welcome :)
@@JustIcelandic Color film in 1947 - wow! I suppose that’s around when it was just becoming widespread. And yes, such good quality too! Very nice find. I feel like there’s lots of videos about the Viking age and modern Iceland but very little about the thousand years in between, at least not in English and readily available. It’s much appreciated. :)
@@trojanpony You are right, it's really not that many documentaries and movies out there but the Icelandic state TV made some good material trough the years but it's in sub-standard picture quality and almost unusable on youtube. But I'm always on the lookout and by time it's my goal to make my own mini documentaries so this is literally my practice ground here on CZcams :)
I'm not sure, that the picturen are colorized, for there have been volcan photos in colour at the same time of Hawaii.
fantastic video, how is it possible that people take such great risks to get so close. of course without them we would not have been able to see these beautiful images......for which I thank them and you off course👏🙏🏻
Very welcome :)
Outstanding films of Hekla ... the power of the volcano is intoxicating and I can see how one would get pulled in closer ... thank you for sharing rare videos and I look forward to learning more!
Glad you enjoyed it
Love all your videos and the work you've done. This one popped up in my feed and I was surprised to hear of a familiar voice narrating it. Good job!
Thanks a ton and welcome :)
Nice and good footage from back then. My dad was born in 1947 so that's some time ago. I heard Hekla erupted 6 times since WWII...
Yes you can see all eruptions here :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla
Fascinating footage! Thank you for preserving and presenting it!
Many thanks!
7:56 Hekla, ......was blowing smoke rings ............ IN 1947!
Gylfi, you are the magnificent volcano whisper! History, and maps, ...... needs to be reintroduced into our educational institutions. Technology can only tell you so much, but knowing your country's geological history sure does help a lot. TY for your archived contents.
Many thanks and greetings from Iceland :)
This footage is scary and crazy. These folks were really risking their lives. Really good footage though.
Yes it's a great keeper into the future :)
These days we are used to drone footage and CG, these clips took my breath away. How did they get so close to take these images?
No good zoom back then and one scientist died up there, hit by lava, this was just some nonsense I thing...
Totally brilliant, thank you so very much for bringing to us - what was in the heads of those guys, only yesterday I was discussing brilliant pyroclastic filming where the cameraman was safe then he tells me about the volcanologists who died filming an eruption even though they survived the Mount St Helens big-one!!!
Crazy stuff, I did actually have this dream to get really close to a volcano, but I changed my mind while editing this...my 500mm lens will be used :)
You have a great channel, sir! Many thanks, all my best regards to you from the Coachella Valley!
Thank you very much👍 and greetings from Iceland :)
Thank you for sharing all this information and video. Best greetings from Norway : )
My pleasure!
Thank you for linking to this footage from your most recent video! So amazing and scary!
How many people live close to Hekla atm? How many will have to be evacuated within a shortest amount of time?? Are those people (and authorities) aware of it?
The Hekla region is very rural north from the mountain, but there are a few farmlands south of the Hekla ridge, and some tourism, but not close enough to become a problem, but hikers on Hekla would be the main risk. And thanks for stopping by :)
Excellent commentary!
Thank you kindly!
Fascinating and amazing video ! Can't wait to come and visit your country. Mother Nature surely shows her savage side. Thanks for sharing.
Welcome to Iceland :)
Amazing video and footage.
Thanks :)
Love your videos
It's interesting coming back to hear your prediction for reykjanes in 2020/2021. You appear to have been spot on!
At least close by but we expected the Krýsuvík system to go off first, it's been unrest there for so long time, but then, it just might go off in addition to this, everything seems possible nowadays :)
@@JustIcelandic close enough though! I'll let you off on that one haha. Which is next do you reckon? And do you think it will have a knock on effect on the eruption in reykjanes?
The Adrenaline hit must be incredible.
What än impressive force of nature vulcanoes are! Brave men and women
Wonderful clips. Thank you.
Curious about what the folks at the end were doing, with the torches. Locating the areas lacking oxygen due to other gasses coming out from below?
yes...they were locating the areas lacking oxygen
heavy gases like carbon monoxide sink into the valleys and the livestock are vulnerable to poisoning. The gases are more dense than oxygen I think and so the flames are extinguished through lack of oxygen. I believe this to be the case , open to thorn
Wow I never saw this before! How did I miss this? That is scary though. Theses guys were nuts to get so close! It’s actually a miracle more people weren’t hit by all that tephra ..or one of them didn’t fall thru all that lava that still had to be hot right u deer the surface.. just wow. I sure hope there’s no eruption quite that bad though. Let’s hope for one far away from people. Yea we won’t see as much but it’s safer. I’d love another one like the Geldingadalur eruption. 9 not sure if I s-Elle’s that right lol) . A really great video Gimli, I’m glad I found it!
Always welcome :)
I really enjoyed that. Hope to visit there again in the next couple of years. Such a beautiful country.
You should :) and welcome to Iceland :)
Humans are attracted to “dynamic environments.” Waterfalls, ocean beaches, tall mountains, etc. These are exciting, and the closer you can get, the more exciting it can be.
Dynamic environments come fully equipped with dynamic, potentially fatal hazards as well. You can view a dangerous phenomenon safely one minute, and the next minute a subtle change in conditions will result in instant catastrophe and others will be recovering your burned, battered and smashed corpse.
Maurice and Katia Krafft and dozens of others found this to be true on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992 when, after successfully filming numerous pyroclastic flows without incident, an unexpectedly large event overwhelmed their location and they were killed by a 1000 degree ash cloud.
Yes it looks as nonsense what they are doing in this video, way to risky for my taste, i would hardly take my drone there with the lava bombs all around, well, only the cheaper one...
Thank you. What were they doing with the torches near the end of the video?
The fire died out so it's lack of oxygen and gas from the volcano, explaining the sick and dead sheep
Very interesting, thank you.
Very welcome
Very interesting! By the way, how is that Eurovision series coming along? Any estimated date for 2013? 🙏 Thanks!
I'm lacking some videos to edit from, interviews and such from 2013, pressing hard to find it because it's been on top of my list for a while to finish the series, sorry about that :)
Great video 😎😎😎👍👍👍
Thanks for the visit
Very interesting video! Fortunately we hopefully can get the same kind of images today if risking camera drones flying very near the ground without risking lives.
It's allowed to use drones again over there :) the situation has cooled down, more into in a video a'm about to finish :)
Best regards from Quebec ,peoples do scary things even in those days
Good stuff 👏 👍 👌 thanks 😊
My pleasure!
your prediction was really close!
👍🙏>>>💚~~~ Great video Thank You
You predicted 2020... not a bad prediction at all!!! 3 months off. Not bad at all. 👏
Welcome :)
Спасибо!
I knew the son of Sigurbsson when he was studying in St Andrews in Scotland, in the early ‘60s. Those scientists were determined, but took too many insane risks.
Yes this is one crazy picnic up there
Hello Mr Just Icelandic from three years ago. Can I ask you where you think you will be focused on three years from now?
Wow
Welcome :)
Hekla is the only active - stratovolcano - in Iceland. Therefore being more explosive and dangerous because the volcanic materias it produces are felsic and intermediate containing more SiO2 than the basaltic lavas which is by far the most common type coming out of icelandic volcanoes.
Yes and the longer we have to wait for the next one, the worse it gets, according to history...so we hope we don't have to wait too long..
Öræfajökull is also a stratovolcano. And while obviously not nearly as frequent as Hekla, I think it's still technically active.
7:34 OK that's terrifying.
Love the channel, but the sound is low and I personally need closed caption, as much as I like it channel it's not worth watching when I have to put all my effort in trying to hear what your saying
Noted! Subs on most videos now
@@JustIcelandic thank you so much I truly appreciate it. I'm gonna do my best to help you gain subs and views, I'm gonna make a comment and thumbs up and share ur vids😍.
Exciting video about Hekla but disturbingly unnecessary tone in the background. Vh Benny
Noted, and welcome :)
That was an influential year. The state of Israel was formed by the British. Ireland lost its chance of reunification .Britains offer that year not accepted by develera.
Yes it made history for sure :)
Very scary pictures in the old film indeed. The people going so close to the flying lava, crazy. I doubt that a british steel helmet from WW2 would have made a difference, if a 50kg rock falls on that guy.
Very concerning also the pictures at the end, when they hold burning torches into a ditch and it stops burning. That means there is no oxygen anymore, due to some other gas - probably CO² - that has accumulated there. Very dangerous, many people have already died from that. A few decades agao, several thousand in a incident in Africa. The people in the film were really lucky that there walked away alive from that.
Sadly one geologist die actually during this eruption
@@JustIcelandic Yes, that has happened sometimes. The guys just get carried away in a sort of "research fever", and then take to much risk. Like in this famous instance:
czcams.com/video/egEGaBXG3Kg/video.html
I think that at that time without a lot of the technological capability that we have now such as drones, cameras, satellites, remote vehicles, etc. The ONLY choice was to send actual people in to the danger zone to get more data and information. It was highly dangerous, and someone WAS killed, you can see in the video, the enormous Lava Bombs being ejected and falling closely to the folks researching. Any of those that hit someone would at WORST injure them severely, but most likely would kill them outright. Those were incredibly brave and caring folks to risk their lives to gather information to understand and hopefully protect everyone else.
In the same year Haroun Tazieff in Congo regarded the Kituro eruption and did his heart for volcanoes find.
Welcome
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thankfully we have drones now
Yes wow.....this was crazy
Do any of your volcanos (or volcanic systems) qualify as 'supervolcanos'?
The sound seems too quiet. Hard to hear what he is saying.
Noted
@@JustIcelandic Well, I am a bit on the old side. If no one else had a problem, ignore me.
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🌱🌏💚 thanks :)
You don't need your scientists to get close to the volcano today.
Just keep flights from America landing and tell the nitwits what they definitely shouldn't do.
Aha, you mean we should open up the first real American BBQ up there :)
Before the invention of scientific equipment, they brought eggs to cook on the lava. I wonder how they turned out? 👍
and toast bread too?
Rólegur með hreiminn😂
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@@JustIcelandic flott video engu að síður skulum vona að hún verði þæg hún hekla