Katla the Netflix Volcano in Iceland - The Original Story
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Netflix is about to make one of our volcanoes famous without an eruption and that's a good deal, but what about the real deal, the giant volcano Katla that might erupt at any time?
This is the shorter version of the true Katla story but the full documentary can be found here:
• Katla the Netflix Volc...
Highly recommended and perhaps the best documentary about one of Iceland's most dangerous volcano.
The documentary left me speechless, just as it did the man who witnessed the eruption of 1918, as he lived through it all and saw the floods of biblical proportions that it produced. When asked to describe it he said he couldn't; he had no words for it. I won't even attempt to imagine what another major eruption of Katla will bring, especially with 400-700 meters in depth of snow and ice covering its immense caldera. It's a bit too much for me to mentally digest at the moment. Many thanks for your most interesting and educational videos and information.
Eldgja was a fantastic large fissure eruption. Had an eruptive volume 500x higher than the current eruption, and covered 800 km^2 with lava. That entire area is just prone to straight line unusually large volume fissure eruptions (Laki in 1783 is another example)
Yes and the strange thing is that those events are rarely mentioned here and when I started to be interested in this, I got most of my info from foreign documentaries, so I feel as we lack respect for those forces down there...
I have watched the Katla documentary on your channel. I'm glad you have added English subtitles.
Hope you enjoyed it :)
Just saw an interview with Prof. Thor Thordarsson on Valentin Troll’s YT channel, and he recounts the history of twin eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull and Katla, and explains that they are not connected in terms of volcanic plumbing, but rather influence one another through shared regional extension associated with eruptions on either system. For both to erupt in sequence or simultaneously, each has to be “primed” already when the other erupts.
Re: Eldgja, I recommend reading Prof. Clive Oppenheimer’s research on the connection between its 10th century eruption and the introduction of Christianity to Iceland... pretty interesting.
Thanks for this info, I'm keeping it close by when I get a chance to visit Eldgjá because I really want to know more, our history books are not supporting this, but we don't know all that much however about this period
I can't find this channel, please sent the link, thanks
@@africo9104 Channel: czcams.com/channels/oIhK8XHA0xTd9Hej8wfl1g.html
Video: czcams.com/video/KDZ7dtXXfdw/video.html
ah, good to know, that the netflix show was finally released.
I of course already watched the Katla doc featured on your channel and very much enjoyed it! The icelandic with eng. subs makes it even more of an unique experience.
Cool, thanks!
I have been watching Katla for quite a few years now, since I first became interested in the volcanology of Iceland, it's one of those strange things where you want to see the power of nature showing the world who is boss, but not wishing harm on persons or property (and it's a be careful what you wish for scenario). But there again, the future of planet earth and sustaining life depends on the recycling through new eruptions - we don't tend to think about all the lands subducted at fault zones across the world, so fair play to Iceland for giving something back.
Well spoken :) and many thanks :)
I've watched the first two episodes of the Netflix series. It seems very well-made, very believable environment. Droves of ash around the buildings instead of snow. Reminds me of videos from those coal mining towns, where everything is gray and black from coal dust. Combined with the population being evacuated, it gives off a very post-apocalyptic feel.
Yes they captured a bit of the mood from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010 but that's how it looked around it for a while, and thanks for visiting :)
Fun to know of another stealth volcano like Hekla. In the USA the Salton Sea complex is getting jittery so the earthquake graphs are being compiled and watched closely.
Ach! I live just southwest of the Salton Sea, up in the mountains east of San Diego. Do you have sources for your info? I’ve been actually feeling some of the recent earthquake activity you mention.
@@majcherj1 USGS graphs have shown several 50+/days with some magnitude 4's. It is on watch alert in the USGS. Your quakes are not related but are an extension of the San Andreas needing to move 15ft. through the dog leg.
@@lonniefarmer7067 I was familiar with the geology of the area. I found a scientific article saying that the recent Salton Sea area quakes are not believed to be a swarm, but a main shock/after shock sequence. Which means not too much, because these happen pretty frequently. I traced the ones I felt, and they are from that series. Thanks!
OMG - just started watching KATKA on Netflix sooo good. And so was your documentary!! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it, I'm on EP3 with the TV series now, looks way better then lots of Icelandic TV drama where we most often fail with the scripts, but it's a catching story and excellent filming I must say...
1918 was a busy year for the world!!! I didn't realize that Katla erupted, as well. Lucky for Iceland and us, her quieter sister decided to take her place for this pandemic. 💜🇮🇸🌋🏔️🌞
Definitely going to check out the documentary. Will be interesting to see if I pick up any Icelandic while viewing. 😸 (I picked up a few words of Turkish watching Filinta on Netflix. But, then it had about 300 episodes!!! 😹 Btw it's a very entertaining series, like adventure meets mystery meets drama, plot twists aplenty, and fascinating cultural elements.💚)
Love your videos. Well done. Simple and in point👍😎
Awesome, thank you :)
Thanks for the info my friend! Hope you have a long wait on that one!
Fingers crossed, it's been so long time since the last eruption that we really don't know what to expect this time...
Thank you very much for this amazing documentary!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks. Will check out the Netflix show. Will look at the documentary also.
Welcome :)
Thank you! Love your videos!
You are always so kind, thank you :)
Interesting. Thank you, I'll definitely watch your documentary.
Enjoy and welcome :)
So, Is Katla similar to Vesuvio? The shot at 1.00 seems a pyroclastic eruption, and both they are acting about the same way... I'm going to watch the documentary! Thank you Gylfi, always the top 👍
Pyroclastic eruption is possible from nearby Öræfajökull but not known from Katla, but even so, it's a sleeping giant and judging from the eruption in 939 it's one of this volcano systems that can send lava intrusions miles away like Bárðarbunga and Grimsvotn so I would really like to know more about the system behind it since Katla and the glacier is just a part of the mystery :) and thanks for visiting :)
very different volcanoes.
in geochemistry and geologic setting.
I just came back from Iceland and it was amazing!
Great to hear :) and thanks for visiting us :)
Thank you for the very informative video!
My pleasure!
This was very interesting . I will check out the other video you mentioned.
Welcome :)
Great! Now I have something definite to watch at the weekend. Thanks.
Enjoy :) great filming...
Exciting! Hope to visit Iceland in the next couples of years
You should, plenty to see here :)
On the topic of volcanos how is the present day knowledge on Laki? And perhaps a little on the impact on Iceland/ Europe at the big eruption in 1783? Thank you for sharing Iceland from a your perspective ❤
A quick-ish off the top of my head response to your questions. By off the top of my head I mean please take info as being rough and based on memory, as opposed to searched and cross checked. Laki, as you probably know, was a rift eruption, meaning there was no centralized cone of focused activity. Due to the nature of Iceland’s geology (plate spreading boundary) this means that it is unlikely to erupt again. That doesn’t mean that the area it is in won’t experience similar eruptions. Far from it, since it’s right on the eastern rift zone of the island. The effect it had on Iceland was dramatic and tragic. If memory serves, I believe something close to a third of the population died as a result, largely due to more indirect causes. Starvation was a major cause, along with disease, and lung damage due to the huge amount of gas released by the eruption. Laki effected the entire planet, causing the year without a summer in the US, possibly triggering the French Revolution, and estimates of millions of deaths across the globe. It’s worth noting that Laki, while being a large eruption, is only a hint of the size of eruption that Iceland is capable of producing. Food for thought.
@@ebo360 Thank you for sharing your knowledge on Laki. I just wonder how the landscape in Iceland, round the Laki area has developed since the eruption? I have visited Iceland and I'm still impressed how the land is created and shaped by the wild underground activity.
@@suZfe0211 That’s a great question, but I don’t have a good answer. We (my wife, kids, and I) just returned from a couple weeks in Iceland last Friday. We stopped at one location off the ring road that my wife informed me was part of the southern end of the Laki eruption, which surprised mainly because I had been under the impression the rift had been much further inland. Except for knowing that there were no outward signs of the larger eruption it was connected to. But that’s like the blind man touching one part of an elephant and trying to picture the whole animal. I’ve seen many fly overs of the rift scar left behind from Laki and it doesn’t take a geologists to tell that something big happened there. The area of the country this happened in is still very sparsely settled. I don’t think this is an effect of Laki though. The area is home to several of the island’s most dangerous and active volcanoes. When you drive along the southern coast you spend quite a bit of time traveling over huge flood plains. It’s not a great place to build a home.
I envy your ability to say Eyjafjallajökull without even thinking about it :-) Love the videos!
Thanks! 😃
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it and welcome :)
Hasn’t Grimsvotn been making noises lately?
No and I would really like to get some news from there, but it's just no discussion about it but we were told a year ago that the lakes were full and about to burst the crater walls, and an eruption would most like follow. But since then, it's just close to zero information from up there, sadly..
Vik indeed a beautiful little town.
Great little spot :) the tourist industry would however have preferred it without the ash :) but it's a good promo for them anyway...
One of my cats is name Katla, after this volcano, and her ears got very twitchy when she heard you say her name in this video!
🤣 Welcome :)
Thanks. Watched two episodes of the one on Netflix. Seems to have a sci-fi element to it.
Looks interesting, good filming and better script than we often see but that's where we usually fail when it comes to Icelandic TV shows and movies
Or fantasy. They mention the mystery is "something out of the saga's", the folk tales.
I watched Katla and I think it is a good mini series. It caught my attention which is very rare
Its all about me! just love your videos really we do!
Thank you so much Katla and always welcome :)
Thank You!☺️
You’re welcome 😊
I will watch the Katla documentary tomorrow (its late now).
I just went to the diamond beach and back in 1 day, I also went to Vik and went on the beach.
The guide didn't know, but where did all that black sand come from? Was it Katla? Or a volcano where those columns are? Do you know?
I browsed trough some info in Icelandic but as far as I can see it's just sand :) And welcome :)
@Just Icelandic Thank you. Having knelt in it and held it though it feels different to regular sand at home. But maybe so, I'm no expert.
I am here for work so didn't have so much chance to explore but I'd like to see much more, I am in love with your country. And Vik, however dangerous it might be to live there!
*KATLA*... série... Netflix ... finalizei...e assim concluí: cuidado para não ressuscitarmos aquilo que já se foi... é bom resolvermos as pendências "vulcânicas" que corroem o nosso espírito... pois remoer "fantasmas" passados talvez desperte "demônios" adormecidos para o presente... e aí tudo pode ficar muito complicado... e até cruel, como um vulcão em erupção 😐...e então surge a questão: como se livrar desses demônios que estavam inertes sob a lava do nosso passado ou que permeavam, ocultos, no nosso inconsciente?...🤷♂️... será que daremos conta?...🤷♂️🤷♂️... conseguiremos enxergar um norte efetivo, para não sermos engolidos pelo vulcão sinistro que habita em cada um de nós, o "katla", à espreita para explodir?...🤔... porém, é necessário chegar ao final do enredo... e então a solução consiste em "matar" de forma sofrível os já "falecidos" para no real sobrevivermos psicologicamente saudáveis? ...essa resposta caminha para o último episódio..e o final não é nada suportável... POUCO RECOMENDADO PARA SER VISTO... mas conclusivo...pois a continuidade do mistério da vida sempre envolve aceitarmos as perdas...🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️...e a mente humana continuará a criar fantasmas, por vezes como mecanismo de defesa, para apaziguar os conflitos internos...🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️...
Welcome :)
I saw the fictional series on Netflix. It was very good!
Thanks for visiting :)
Just watched the Netflix series. Pretty good.
Fine series, but with Katla they could have done way more with the script though...
@@JustIcelandic Nah, it tells it's own story.
good
Thanks
I watched Katla, to many episodes and nothing happend. Loved the dark country side as I know Iceland from the bright side during my five sommer holidays. Find my videos of Iceland in my playlist.
Omgosh 😮😮😮😮
In my opinion, #JustIslandic’s videos have THE most important data on Islandic Volcanoes. I will share this Katla Documentary on important Social Media such as Rumble, BitChute, GETTR, Parler, GAB & Parler. You should upload to these platforms not so much Twitter or Facebook as they’ve banned so many intelligent people, people who actually understand the critical importance of this historic Volcano.
Ive been watching the netflix series.
Hope you enjoyed, not perfect, but fine
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I was browsing series on Netflix, and I saw the name Katla, I instantly clicked on it because I knew it was about the volcano, the sci fi around it is meh, but I really liked the real science part.
Thanks, the real deal is way more interesting :)
I'd love to watch it, but I'm dyslexic, so subtitles make watching, reading and comprehension all at the same a bit of a challenge.
I herd it's dubbed in English by the Icelandic crew witch is unusual since it's usually done by Netflix...check it out!
I’ve been watching the Netflix series and there are not too many subtitles. Most have been dubbed in English. Just FYI.
Dubbing of course means that the lips and the words don’t match, but at least you can watch the actors without having to read all the time.
I began the Netflix show and it does have a sci-fi, mythical side to it, so don’t expect a documentary approach.
I’m getting a post-grad certification in Neurolinguistics, and learning how some dyslexia is misdiagnosed. For example, there is learned dyslexia from being taught via sight words rather than phonetics (that can be remedied). There is also letter reversal issues that aren’t true dyslexia, but never got addressed via letter reversal written exercises (that can also be remedied). Then there is dysgraphia which makes writing extremely difficult and reading is either not affected or is somewhat (that one is usually genetic). Only 1-5% of the population is truly dyslexic but they tend to get lumped together by educators (who are too lazy to take the next step and ask why/what is really going on here).
It’s never too late, and I’d encourage you to look at the International Phonetic Alphabet. I’m introducing this to my 83 year old dyslexic father, to finally correct his issues from being taught entirely via sight words.
There is a chart here, with audio: www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-chart.
There are letter reversal worksheets here: www.toolstogrowot.com/therapy-resources/handwriting/reversals-1440201091. (I’m going to use these with my dad, as soon as he gets the IPA down well.)
My dad also has dysgraphia, but loves drawing and had a great career as a technical illustrator. I’d also encourage you to explore calligraphy or just straight up drawing-it helps the brain make the connections (too complicated to explain here; that’s a summary of a whole week of lectures).
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@@schoolingdiana9086 hi there, very interesting to read your post. I'm not sure exactly how my problems would be defined, I struggle with seeing words that are not there, so the, or a number of words in a sentence may or not be the words I see, or words shifting. I can read, but, actually knowing that I have read it correctly and understood is a different matter, also retaining what I have read, is near impossible to me, that also an issue with what I have seen, so watching some films, TV series etc, go in one eye and out the other. I can't remember card games, stop playing for 2 mins to get a drink or take a comfort break and the game and how to play have gone. I did suffer a head injury as a young child, that has caused a scar like a stroke in my front of my brain, and I suffer with PTSD and bipolar disorder, so I'm a bit of a complicated case who went through school in the 80s and 90s with no assistance, it was a very different time then, you just got labeled as stupid.
And it appears. Katla is not even on the Mid-Atlantic Rift. I wonder what special Geological anomaly is she a part of?
Iceland is a combination of the ridge and a mantle plume hotspot. Both feed a system of magma chambers and reservoirs, and the reservoirs can feed not only the diverging plate fissure eruptions, but the shield volcanoes that lie off-ridge.
@@RoxnDox -Iceland’s a geological enigma.
@@GumriRN Dunno if it’s an enigma, but it’s certainly a fascinating subject for study!
What is technology telling us about the volcano 🌋 ❓
At least that she's active, every year there has been at least one relatively big tremor (3,5 - 3,9 richter) from within the caldera
Brilliant coverage...Katla sounds like a name for a lady....as i know.....women can be explosive in minutes.....hahaha
If provoked….
oi!
Volcano not vulcano.
Btw that Netflix show is awful xD
Fine filming, mostly fine actors but the script could have been better :)
Just like a woman !!
Womans name yes