Iceland Volcano Updates | 5th eruption over and magma continues to accumulate!

Описание: Hello everybody!

The 5th eruption from the Svartsengi system in Iceland on the Reykjanes peninsula is over after having erupted for a total of 24 days.

In the final stages of the eruption, our experts and construction workers battled a lava flow that had flowed over the barriers beside Mt. Sýlingarfell.
The weapons of choice were large excavators and other machines that both raised smaller berms in front of the flow as well as dumped rubble over active flows.
Water was also used to cool down the lava which slowed it down considerably but this method was also used during the Heimaey eruption in Vestmannaeyjar back in the 1970s.

Since this flow was relatively small and didn't actually pose any threat to infrastructure, this was used as an opportunity to learn more about how to deal with these kind of events.
Ultimately, what won our people the fight, was dumping a bunch of rubble over the flows on top of the barriers, which completely cut them off.

Obviously, non of these methods would work if the lava flow were more voluminous like at the beginning of the eruption.

Now that the eruption is over, our construction workers will go all in on raising and upgrading the barriers in important areas before the next eruption.
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Vedur: https://www.vedur.is/
Mbl: https://www.mbl.is/frettir/
Vísir: https://www.visir.is/
Ruv: https://www.ruv.is/
Earthquake map: https://skjalftalisa.vedur.is/#/page/map
Vísindavefurinn: https://www.visindavefur.is/