[HN Gopher] Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
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Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video]
Author : lknik
Score : 571 points
Date : 2021-03-22 08:10 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.ruv.is)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.ruv.is)
| vzaliva wrote:
| I hope somebody is recording this stream. It could make an
| amazing time-lapse video later.
| tamaharbor wrote:
| Learning grade school science (50 years ago) would have been so
| much easier if they just showed me these videos. Amazing!
| asgeir wrote:
| And if you want to see the definition of terror, look at the
| second video on this page when part of the main crater collapsed
| https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/hraunrennsli-dagsins-a-o...
| fantod wrote:
| The definition of terror is people laughing while trotting out
| of the way?
| adflux wrote:
| What in the name of god are these tourists(?) doing there !?
| 4gotunameagain wrote:
| It's not that dangerous in real time (lava is slooow),
| especially if you have hills like they do close by to go up
| on.
| dopeboy wrote:
| Isn't there a chance a projectile of lava could land on
| them?
| ngngngng wrote:
| There have been incidents in Hawaii where people
| successfully used a garden hose to protect their home from
| oncoming lava flow.
| asgeir wrote:
| This is from the webcam at the time.
| https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/gigbarmurinn-gefur-
| sig-o...
| voisin wrote:
| Drone footage on Reddit:
| https://reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/mahr6j/fpv_drone_foot...
| sizzzzlerz wrote:
| Great video but its amusing to see so many people up close and
| personal with the erupting lava. Here in the US, our National
| Park Service closed the entire area surrounding the crater at
| Kilauea when it started erupting last year. Unless you were a
| volcanologist, you aren't able to get within several miles of it.
| orobinson wrote:
| Iceland seems to have a very relaxed approach to health and
| safety. I visited in 2006 and remember walking around boiling
| pools of mud on very slippery ground with nothing but a single
| token piece of rope to prevent tourists from slipping and
| falling to a slow and painful death.
| sizzzzlerz wrote:
| That's what has been done at Yellowstone National Park. All
| the tourist-accessible thermal features have boardwalks built
| out to and around them for both safety and environmental
| protection from the millions of vistors. Other features, like
| Old Faithful geyser, has been surround by cement paths and
| benches for visitors to view eruptions from. The backcountry,
| however, has no such facilities and people who visit those
| are basically on their own and need to use their own
| discretion. That said, people die in hot springs every year
| because they're too dumb to recognize the dangers.
| lostlogin wrote:
| New Zealand is/was similar. Then in 2019 White Island erupted
| and killed 22 people and injured a similar number. The
| injuries have been truely horrific. Skin grafts alone came to
| a quarter of a million square centimetres of skin for
| victims.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island.
| ..
|
| https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/118741979/whakaari--
| wh...
| MrDresden wrote:
| Since the meteoric rise in tourism post financial crisis,
| more funds have been put into upgrading many of the tourist
| areas with propper walking paths and cordoning off certain
| areas.
|
| This has mostly been done to preserve the areas from undue
| damage from humans, but also for their increased safety.
|
| Our view of health and safety is still vastly different from
| the US for example. It does help that liability for your own
| personal health most often lies on your own shoulders instead
| of somebody else's.
| chrisco255 wrote:
| Iceland must be less litigious and have less lawyers per
| capita.
| Moru wrote:
| I believe at least the lawyer thing is true for most of the
| world compared to USA.
| MrDresden wrote:
| Having the police close off the whole area around the eruption
| is simply not feasible.
|
| The view here in Iceland is more that people should heed the
| advice given, and use good judgement if they decide to go see
| the eruption anyway.
|
| Certain areas are closed off though, and the police and SaR
| teams will interact with those who go there.
| nanna wrote:
| It's almost as if the Icelandic Tourism board turned to the
| Asatruarfelagid for help bringing tourism back. 'Gudmundur,
| everyone's dreaming of flying towards the equator when they're
| allowed, not towards us in the Artic circle. What can we do?'
|
| 'WE SHALL SUMMON SURTR'!
| runarberg wrote:
| There was a huge debate some time ago about Christianity vs.
| Asatru on Althingi (the Icelandic general assembly). During
| this debate news broke that an eruption had started in
| Svinahraun--a few dozen km east of the current Geldingadalur
| eruption. Allegedly some proponents of Asatru suggested that
| the eruption was the fault of the gods not liking the fact that
| this debate was happening. However this argument was quickly
| dismissed as the debate was already happening on top of an
| ancient lava field and the debaters couldn't fathom what must
| have angered the gods that caused it to erupt in the ancient
| times.
|
| See Kristni Saga (chapter 11)
| nanna wrote:
| When the Karahnjukar dam was being built the Asatru would
| visit the construction site and curse it, so Landsvirkjun
| (Iceland's power company) would send priests down to sprinkle
| holy water over it, to which the Asatru responded by cursing
| it, and the priests again sent in... this went on round and
| round. The Asatru were broadly against the project.
|
| Arguably this had some effect. When a prominent anti-dam
| farmer from near Egilsstadir was excavating his land to build
| an extension to his house, strange things kept on happening:
| His cows treading on their udders, workers falling into the
| pit and breaking bones. His wife claimed to see two figures
| when each time one of these happenings occured. An old man
| and a young. Finally in the pit they came across the central
| beam of an ancient house, and a magnificent circle made of a
| spherical stone made of spheres containing crystals - you
| found individual spheres - I know this is the wrong term
| sorry - scattered around their farmland. Anyway upon finding
| these the farmer called to the ghosts and promised that the
| stone would be taken to the museum in Egilsstadir and the
| beam would be featured prominantly in their new farmhouse, in
| exchange for the ghosts leaving them in peace and haunting
| Karahnjukar instead. It was then in the process of its
| initial flood.
|
| Soon after very strange things occured at Karahnjukar.
| Workers were injured, serious technical problems manifested.
|
| If there's anywhere in the world where making pacts with
| supernatural forces is possible, it's Iceland.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _I captured the Iceland volcano eruption from up close_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543533 - March 2021 (14
| comments)
| bondolo wrote:
| Go back in the live stream a few hours and then watch a timelapse
| by hitting the "forward 15 seconds" button. There is more motion
| happening than is obvious watching the real time video.
| simonebrunozzi wrote:
| I would love to visit Iceland this late Spring, it would be my
| second visit after my first one in 2008.
|
| I am wondering if anyone knows what the covid-related
| restrictions are. I would go there primarily to hike, and
| secondarily to try to meet interesting startups.
| BrentOzar wrote:
| I'm in Iceland for 6 months on their new teleworker visa. It
| took a couple of months to get, but it's pretty
| straightforward: https://ozar.me/2021/01/whew-we-got-iceland-
| teleworker-visas...
| kd5bjo wrote:
| https://www.covid.is/sub-categories/visiting-iceland
| StavrosK wrote:
| So 12 days of quarantine? Sounds expensive.
| meheleventyone wrote:
| It's only 5-6 days of quarantine as the first test is taken
| when you arrive.
| StavrosK wrote:
| Oh, that's better... Still probably prohibitive for a lot
| of people, I wonder if you can skip that if you're
| vaccinated (or perhaps will be able to by September).
| meheleventyone wrote:
| Yes in May they are looking to open up more to people
| outside of Schengen with vaccination certificates. My
| parents are British, vaccinated and looking forward to
| coming over to visit as we've not seen them since
| Christmas.
| StavrosK wrote:
| That'd be fantastic, I've been itching to go back to
| Iceland for years now!
|
| Assuming I manage to get vaccinated, that is...
| PedroCandeias wrote:
| No, just 5. You get the results a few hours after each
| test. I flew in on a Sunday, went into quarantine, got my
| landing test results same day, did my second test Friday
| morning (took 2min to enter, get tested and come back out)
| and got my negative results via app at lunch time, at which
| point I was done with quarantine.
| StavrosK wrote:
| That's pretty good, but if you can only afford a week
| (which is already more than the vast majority of people
| in my country can afford), it makes it a non-starter...
| Doesn't help that Iceland is expensive, I guess...
| darkwater wrote:
| Don't want to sound harsh but, given how isolated Iceland
| is, anything less than a week is like... wasting money
| anyway? Obviouvsly if it's a business trip you might go
| and stay one or two days, but for anything involving
| leisure, I don't know, adding extra 5 days quarantine is
| not that a big deal (if you can afford going to Iceland
| anyway).
| StavrosK wrote:
| If you go for a week, basically doubling the costs of the
| trip for a quarantine is anything but a big deal, I'd
| think. I'm not sure how you figure that paying double for
| a trip so you can quarantine isn't a big deal...
| Moru wrote:
| Some countries you get a lot more paid vacation. We have
| 25 days per year for example.
| darkwater wrote:
| IDK, it's just that I usually like to go "deep" when
| traveling an one week for place like Iceland seems too
| few days.
| spijdar wrote:
| Some people can only stay a week. I went for a week
| several years back, and in that time drove up through the
| highlands, tent camping and inching my way all the way
| around the island. I ended with a day trip to
| Vestmannaeyjar before flying back. I might not have been
| able to add an extra 5 days to said trip, and definitely
| couldn't now, where I only get a week of paid leave every
| six months or so.
| baxtr wrote:
| Is it just my feeling fueled by the news or is there currently an
| increased / above normal levels volcano activity around the
| globe?
| pimlottc wrote:
| Yes, Mount Etna (Italy) and Kilueaua (Hawaii) are also both
| current erupting. I'm not an expert but this does appear to be
| an unusually active time.
| m3at wrote:
| Strikingly beautiful!
|
| It's hard to get a sense of the scale of the scene, anyone happen
| to know how far away the webcam is from the peak?
| Tepix wrote:
| Fagradalsfjall is only 385m high.
| Tepix wrote:
| I see a few rocks in the foreground and a lot of fog.
| Fagradalsfjall is nowhere in sight as of 08:34 UTC.
|
| Edit: Now 20 minutes later the white smoke is gone. Stunning!
| input_sh wrote:
| Ashes and sunlight are obstructing the current view, if you
| go a little back in the stream, you'll see what's happening.
| granra wrote:
| Not too far I think. This eruption is apparently competing with
| one other eruption on being the smallest eruption on record in
| Iceland.
|
| Source: am Icelandic and read it on the news.
| asgeir wrote:
| Looks to be about half a kilometer. The webcam looks to be at
| about 63.89045405043735, -22.279054215941507 and the main
| crater is at about 63.88921695342744, -22.269097856211175
|
| The main crater is only a few tens of meters tall.
| jstanley wrote:
| About?! The 14th decimal place of latitude is worth ~0.15mm!
| adwn wrote:
| Although that might have been tongue-in-cheek, the word
| "about" could refer to the accuracy of the position, not
| its precision.
|
| Precision != accuracy:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
| elcomet wrote:
| But the number of digits should reflect the precision.
| airhead969 wrote:
| Yes. If it's only 5 digits, it should be cut-off to
| reflect that. Accuracy needs an error estimate.
| Moru wrote:
| It's hard if you don't know the precision needed to get
| to the position you want, easier to just copy/paste and
| be done with it. How many knows how far 0.001 deg is at a
| specific location on the globe?
| unhammer wrote:
| When pointing at a map, the thickness of your digits
| should reflect precision.
| airhead969 wrote:
| How accurate are your digits?
| airhead969 wrote:
| The smallest possible resolution of GPS in the horizontal
| is 10mm (6-7 digits) with local differential corrections.
|
| In general, 4-5 digits is the precision to expect.
| jstanley wrote:
| Hm, then I think my calculation that the 14th digit is
| worth 0.15mm must be wildly incorrect.
|
| For a 40km earth circumference, I worked out 10^-14 * 360
| * 4*10^7 = 0.00014 metres.
| asgeir wrote:
| I find it hard to estimate the position from the top-down
| view compared to when I was there, and I just copy-pasted
| the coordinates from Google Maps
| hr2016 wrote:
| The camera is located on Fagradalsfjall and the eruption is in
| Geldingadalir. The exact location of the camera I do not know,
| but its somewhere in the ~1km range.
| lysp wrote:
| A photographer took a FPV drone video (literally) over the top.
|
| The shot is amazing:
|
| https://www.facebook.com/steinbekk/posts/10224917280624476
| PUSH_AX wrote:
| Drone pilot got really lucky with that fly past. Very risky,
| the reward was a great shot though.
| dageshi wrote:
| He really went for it didn't he? A bit lower and it'd be toast
| jcims wrote:
| That and he flew through a shower of molten rock, the
| smallest little blob would take that drone out.
|
| Some things are with the risk though, turned out amazing!
| gpvos wrote:
| A bit higher too; there's a lump of lava that ended up above
| it.
| dessant wrote:
| Facebook may ask you to log in to view the video, here's a
| direct link to the video file:
|
| https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t66.36240-6/10000000_...
| airhead969 wrote:
| I could only think:
|
| TOO LOW - TERRAIN! PULL UP! TOO LOW - TERRAIN! PULL UP!
| HaloZero wrote:
| haha, I really thought some magma might have hit the drone
| when the drone went over the cone.
| raverbashing wrote:
| I am surprised the drone survived (or did it?)
| MrDresden wrote:
| Perhaps a calculated risk, in case media outlets want to
| use the footage for anything the royalties might outweigh
| the cost of the drone. Would be wasteful though.
| yccs27 wrote:
| The drone might have streamed the video back to the
| operator, so it's not a given that the drone survived.
| Since the photographer knew they were going to take a risky
| shot, it's not even unlikely.
|
| Maybe that's why the footage stops in the middle of the
| lava spray...
| techdragon wrote:
| In case anyone doesn't notice this little detail... right in
| the last few seconds you can see one of the erupting chunks
| of lava pass out of the frame in the vertical direction. It
| looks like the drone made a lucky pass _through_ the top of
| the erupting lava plume, narrowly missing red hot chunks of
| lava.
|
| To clarify... it _looks_ like that, can anyone more familiar
| with the original post confirm more details? Because it could
| obviously just have been a trick of the drone's speed
| combined with the camera field of view just making it look
| like it whizzed under a chunk of red hot lava... which is
| still neat camera work... but it would be so much more
| awesome if it wasn't just a camera effect and it actually did
| fly through between erupting chunks of lava.
| csomar wrote:
| It's not clear if the drone survived. The video is cut
| right after it should have been hit with the lava.
| PUSH_AX wrote:
| I'm no expert but I don't know if you could recover the
| HD version of the footage without the drone coming home,
| perhaps only the FPV version. Happy to be corrected
| though.
| olex wrote:
| With DJI FPV, you can get a recording of the HD signal in
| the goggles. It's not as good as a GoPro/action cam
| footage recorded on board, but infinitely better than
| what ground-recorded analog FPV footage looks like.
| phendrenad2 wrote:
| Also possible for the drone to fall into lava and still
| transmit for a few seconds, maybe enough to get the
| higher-quality buffer?
| dheera wrote:
| Highly unlikely you'd have time to transmit footage.
| Various chips in the drone would go into thermal shut
| down at 90 C ish. The lithium battery would probably
| explode shortly after.
| ccozan wrote:
| The scene from Terminator II came into my mind!
| toss1 wrote:
| the appropriate time scale would more likely be
| milliseconds
| IgorPartola wrote:
| I would be worried the heat would melt the drone even if
| nothing hit it.
| _jstreet wrote:
| Amazing shot - I wonder what a thermal image would look like of
| the same scene. Must be pretty hot flying over top of that
| lava.
| scrdhrt wrote:
| I wonder how the drone looked afterwards
| willis936 wrote:
| Have you ever burnt a resistor?
|
| It likely looks like a 10 pound burned resistor.
| Zealotux wrote:
| Woah, it looks like a 3D render, surreal.
| mstade wrote:
| My first thought was that it could just as well have been a
| shot from Mustafar in Star Wars. Stunning video!
| hnick wrote:
| It's all just white to me when I click the video. Not sure if
| damaged or a bright light is shining at it? Fog maybe?
|
| Edit: nvm it was clouds or fog, moving now!
| MauranKilom wrote:
| Just fog. Clicking around on the timeline (5h+ by now) allows
| you to see the various stages.
| vigneshk wrote:
| It works for me now!
| stewx wrote:
| Direct YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-9QzIcr3c
| royjacobs wrote:
| This reminds me of the trip I took to Iceland in 2010. Just on
| the day we were about to fly back home we were instructed to turn
| on the Hotel TV, which was showing very eerie video footage of
| Eyjafjallajokull erupting. The stark emergency chyron combined
| with the vague video footage gave us a very unsettled feeling.
|
| Then we walked into the lobby where some 80s pop was playing, the
| staff was cheery and asked what we'd like to have for breakfast
| because we'd probably fly home a few hours delayed. I guess you
| become unflappable when you literally live on top of volcanoes :)
|
| On the Iceland Air flight home we watched a very interesting
| documentary about the Eldfell eruptions in 1973. It's really
| fascinating, although I can't seem to find a link to the docu.
| See also: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/01/the-eldfell-
| erupti...
| mrunseen wrote:
| Non-paywall version: https://archive.is/ALqHs
| hugi wrote:
| I went for a hike there on Saturday night, here are a few of the
| shots I got:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFBYeKa30w&list=PLoqbqfn2ku...
|
| Unfortunately, photos and movies don't capture the atmosphere and
| sheer scale of the thing. What might look like some rocks rolling
| from the crater is cose to building-sized. Still, it's defined as
| a small eruption.
|
| Edit: iCloud rate-limited the playlist I originally posted, so
| changed to YouTube playlist. Original link:
| https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0OG6XBubGEA3MC
| markdown wrote:
| "Your browser cannot play this video."
|
| I'm running Chrome v89.0 on MacOS.
| est31 wrote:
| I think the video might be in H.265 format. Outside of
| Safari, no browser supports it, not even Chrome.
| https://caniuse.com/hevc
|
| The video was probably originally in H.265 format and Apple
| apparently did no attempt at transcoding it to a format
| that's more widely understood like H.264.
| saagarjha wrote:
| Does not play in Safari, either :/
| matsemann wrote:
| It almost looks like the hole is 2 meters in diameter and that
| you're standing right next to it. But then a person in red coat
| is really small. How big is the hole really?
| dagurp wrote:
| The caldera is 30m high
| hugi wrote:
| I don't have exact measurements. But for some reference,
| here's a drone shot from the location. I'm the lone guy
| standing above the SAR team.
|
| https://www.hugi.io/img/crater.jpg
| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| holy smokes you're awfully close to the action :D
| jiofih wrote:
| Whoa that is really close. Isn't it common that lava will
| be ejected much farther than that? Or does this volcano
| have a particular known pattern already?
| hugi wrote:
| The flow is quite steady so magma isn't getting ejected
| very far. The more immediate danger it that the crater
| walls can collapse, spilling the ingredients in
| unexpected directions, or separate craters open up.
| matsemann wrote:
| thanks, that image provides a nice scale
| hugi wrote:
| The Met office just released a statement where they said
| the walls of the main crater are currently about 30
| meters tall (~100 feet). It's of course gained some
| height since Saturday.
| jacquesm wrote:
| I'd hate to own your life insurance policy :) Other than
| that great shots, please be very careful.
| busymom0 wrote:
| Your iCloud album is no longer available "due to high demand"
| aargh_aargh wrote:
| That is ridiculous... Oh, an actual demand for the sharing
| service? Let's shut it down temporarily until the demand
| passes. Have they never heard of caching?
| consumer451 wrote:
| The funny thing is that iCloud integration with Win 10 is
| excellent, and vastly superior Google's product.
|
| But then you have rate limiting and the fact that Apple
| doxes you when you share.
| ianai wrote:
| How do they dox their users in this case?
| casefields wrote:
| Click the link, you'll see who shared it. They are
| suggesting that Apple should have an option to withhold
| that info.
| consumer451 wrote:
| The only time I have tried it, this happened:
|
| 1) win file explorer, right-click file and choose Share
| with iCloud link (not at pc, am paraphrasing)
|
| 2) test link in private browser tab
|
| 3) see "this file shared by First Last"
|
| My apologies if I am conflating the way this file was
| shared versus the way I had shared
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| Yeah, I've only ever shared with people who know my name
| anyway, but you're right, that's no good.
|
| Don't iCloud share with the internet, got it! Thanks.
| lostlogin wrote:
| Apple and servers, a classic combination.
|
| Apple's handling of photos so badly needs some effort.
| Sharing libraries between family members just plain sucks.
| Why it managing photos so hard in their ecosystem?
| JohnJamesRambo wrote:
| Have some pity for the company sitting on $195 billion in
| cash, won't you?
| chrisco255 wrote:
| Apparently Apple has rate-limited this shared album. I got to
| see the stunning footage before it was cut off. If you get a
| chance to upload it to another source, please circle back with
| a link!
| hugi wrote:
| I didn't know they did that, thanks for the notification!
| Moved some of the videos to a YouTube playlist and updated
| the post.
| drcongo wrote:
| Amazingly, when the iCloud page did start working for me,
| the videos wouldn't play and gave the message "This video
| cannot be played in this browser" - I'm using the latest
| Safari.
| stoolpigeon wrote:
| I've never been anywhere near any volcano. If you don't mind -
| what does it smell like? Could you feel the heat from it? What
| was the sound like? If you don't have the time I understand but
| I'd love to hear what the experience was like to be that close.
| hugi wrote:
| Oh yes, you feel the warmth. The smell that immediately hit
| me was comforting, like you just lit a nice hardwood
| barbecue, probably from soil and plant material burning when
| coming into contact with the magma. The crater is loud and
| deeply rumbly and makes you feel the raw power of the Earth.
| gojomo wrote:
| But don't you Icelanders find sulfuric smells - the same
| that much of the world associates with rotten eggs - kinda
| comforting, too, because since childhood such smells
| usually accompany hot bath water from the faucets? :)
| hugi wrote:
| Haha, well... I'm born and raised in the East fjords
| where there's little geothermal activity and geothermal
| heating is thus rare. When I first went to Reykjavik as a
| kid I nearly vomited when I was introduced with a bathtub
| full of that sulphuric liquid they called hot water :).
| news_to_me wrote:
| > The crater is loud and deeply rumbly and makes you feel
| the raw power of the Earth.
|
| I'm using this in my next Zork clone ;)
| nlh wrote:
| I'd add one anecdote: I went hiking on one of the Hawaiian
| volcanos a few years ago and got up close with some active
| (but extremely slow-moving) lava. Here's a pic of me poking
| it with a stick:
|
| https://imgur.com/DuwuCg1
|
| What amazed me was the absolute sheer about of heat generated
| from that one TINY little patch. Like, as intense as standing
| in front of a pizza oven going at full blast. I could stand
| about ~15 seconds of it once I exposed the molten part, and
| then I had to step away. Overall in the area it was warm -
| mostly because it was Hawaii and hot out! - but also because
| of general ambient warmth. But it was just that - warmth.
|
| But when I exposed that piece of molten lava - that was HEAT.
| onychomys wrote:
| I'm sure it was safer than it looked, but holy smokes, I'd
| worry so much about breaking through the crust there.
| nlh wrote:
| Me too! But we were with a local guide who walked out on
| the lava crust every day, so I kinda had to trust him.
|
| Although the soles of my sneakers were semi-melted by the
| end of the day. I blame my sneakers more than anything
| (cheap, lowish melting point rubber), but still....
| anonymousDan wrote:
| I climbed Mt. Etna once (in Sicily). It wasn't erupting at
| the time but there were active lava flows etc. The scary
| thing was that even though conditions were relatively benign,
| a sudden change of wind direction blew a stream of
| sulphorous-smelling air in the direction of our group and we
| all had to run back down to the chair lift gasping for air.
| rcpt wrote:
| I've been up one in Guatemala but the thing that I remember
| most was how popular lava is with hoardes of tourists
| sjs382 wrote:
| If your question wasn't specific to _this_ volcano, but _any_
| volcano, the answer is that every one is different.
|
| A few years ago, I visited the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
| It wasn't one you could get super close to, and the photos
| are a bit underwhelming, but it was still very impressive to
| see _in person_. This is what you can expect to see as a
| tourist: https://hotelplazacolon.com/wp-
| content/uploads/2017/10/Masay...
|
| The heat coming off of the volcano was significant, but not
| exactly overwhelming. The sulfur smell was overwhelming
| (apparently Masaya emits _a lot_ of sulfur dioxide), and
| there were restrictions as the length of time tourists could
| stay at the volcano due to the gasses. There were signs all
| over, posted in English and Spanish warning about the health
| effects of the gasses emitted.
| no_one_ever wrote:
| Not been near a volcano, but Iceland also has a very
| sulphuric smell in general, like eggs almost. It is in
| everything like the air and the water.
| lastofthemojito wrote:
| If you've been to Iceland you've probably been near
| volcanoes, just not necessarily active ones. This volcano
| that is currently erupting is only about 10 miles from
| Keflavik Airport (and maybe 5 miles from the Blue Lagoon,
| if you went there).
| no_one_ever wrote:
| Haha you would be right then. Only saw some geothermal
| vents and hot springs but yeah, there is a lot of earth
| activity going on there.
|
| Definitely exercise caution when parading around Iceland:
| nobody is going to stop you from walking yourself into
| something hot/dangerous.
| brabel wrote:
| The first time I saw volcanic activity was in Rotorua[0], in
| New Zealand... I think the big volcano there is dormant but
| because it sits on top of a huge caldera, it still has plenty
| of volcanic activity, including boiling mud and geysers! It's
| an amazing place to visit. You can feel the warmth of the
| rocks and near the geyser, there are water ponds nearly as
| hot as boiling (incredibly clear water too). Seeing the
| geyser explode is the highlight of the visit, of course...
| But just seeing the boiling mud (which you can see
| everytwhere in town, basically) and hearing the noise of
| boiling liquid under your feet is an amazing feeling.
|
| I was young and stayed in the local backpacker which had a
| naturally-warm water pool!
|
| As you approach the city, you feel a very strong smell of
| sulphur (a smell described usually as rotten eggs), but as
| you stay in the town you more or less get used to the smell
| and stop feeling it... it's not as bad as it sounds.
|
| Highly recommend a visit if you're around Australia or the
| South Pacific.
|
| One day I want to visit Iceland as well, it looks amazing.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotorua
| lostlogin wrote:
| You are probably aware since you visited, but Lake Taupo in
| the middle of the North Island is a collapsed volcano and
| has had a couple of eruptions are some of the largest on
| earth. There are Roman and Chinese records of weather
| events that may be due to Taupo eruptions.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taupo_Volcano
| sizzzzlerz wrote:
| The American author, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote "The
| smell of sulfur is strong, but not unpleasant to a sinner."
| after visiting Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano in his book "Roughing
| It".
| srich36 wrote:
| Awesome videos! Is it not dangerous to get that close? I got
| apprehensive just watching that
| hugi wrote:
| When I got back from the hike I heard on the radio that this
| location was, ahem, not recommended. It was closed off
| yesterday and a short while later the crater walls collapsed
| in that direction.
|
| https://youtu.be/eeAf1kZ7_ZE
|
| But there were a few of us at that spot at the time so at
| least I wouldn't have died alone :).
| ragebol wrote:
| A bit on the macabre side (but your comments makes me
| believe you don't mind too much perhaps): what would happen
| if you'd fall or otherwise get trapped in lava? Gollum
| melted I think but that seems unlikely (it's a movie after
| all). Left for future archeologists like in Pompeii?
|
| Please don't test on purpose or accident this btw.
| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| it's 1200degC so you burn already before your body even
| hits the lava. During the Pompeji eruption people got
| killed by the hot ash (arriving first and travels
| further) which cooked them alive:
|
| _> The individuals in the boat houses died relatively
| quickly: The volcanic ash blocked the entrance to each
| structure, and the temperature of the air within probably
| rose to about 400degC--even hotter than a wood-fired
| oven._ --
| https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/studies-reveal-
| grues...
| Tuna-Fish wrote:
| The lava is substantially denser than you, so you'd
| probably float on top and bake until you are dry and then
| burn.
|
| The victims at Pompeii got buried in pyroclastic ash, not
| lava.
| ragebol wrote:
| Ah, of course. Should have known. Still terrible.
| the8472 wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7DDk8eLs8
| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| pretty cool how helpless we are when it comes to predicting
| anything that goes on within:
|
| > _RUV engineers worked through the night to revive the
| previously-popular earthquake monitoring webcam and to re-
| orientate it towards the volcano. It was previously located on
| Borgarfjall when scientists believed an eruption was most likelt
| at Natthagi._
| Hard_Space wrote:
| This brings back memories of the 2003 era Etna eruptions, when I
| was living in southern Italy. After the regular programming
| stopped, the RAI channels would just run a live feed of the
| volcano spewing lava at night, all night long. It was a hell of a
| screen saver!
| joncrane wrote:
| I love the juxtaposition of the blowing snow with the superhot
| lava. Something about the union of extremes.
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