Iceland's Most Active Volcanic System - Grimsvotn
Click on CC for subtitles but in this video we take a look at one of Iceland's most active and dangerous volcano called Grímsvötn, located under Europe's biggest glacier, Vatnajökull. The eruption in Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 is a friendly campfire beside the forces we have underneath Vatnajökull glacier.
The footage I'm showing you now is from the last 4 eruptions in 1996, 1998, 2004 and 2011.
The Lake eruption (Skaftáreldar) has it's origin in this 100 km long Grímsvötn volcanic system but it's believed that the 1783 eruption was responsible for the loss of 2 million lives and its aftermath caused a drop in global temperatures, as 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide was spewed into the Northern Hemisphere.
You can read all about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki
Iceland's hot spot Bárðarbunga is nearby and in 2014 it caused an fissure eruption in Holuhraun and the lava field measures more than 85 km2 or the biggest lava flow in Iceland for centuries.
Bárðarbunga and Grímsvötn are showing constant earthquake activity and that might lead to major geological events in the coming months, years or decades.
Check my video from 2019 about the 5 volcanoes that scientists believe to be ready for eruption now.
• What 5 Icelandic Volcanoes are Ready ...
New Time-Lapse video of earthquakes from 2020-2021
• 14 month Time-lapse Showing the Build...
Here is a link to a new webpage that shows earthquake activity in Iceland in great new format so you can pick any volcanic system and look at the action over periods of 1-365 days.
https://skjalftalisa.vedur.is/index.h...
And finally I want to mention that I will keep on gathering old footage and edit it together with translation to make it easier for the world to see the complete picture since the fragments on Youtube don't tell the complete stories of my country that I feel so interesting. I'm always adding some gadgets to my camera bag in order to be ready for the next eruption so hopefully I will be able to show my viewers unique footage when the next eruption occurs. I'm not a scientist but it's now 6 years from the last eruption in Iceland and the average interval between eruptions is 3 years. So it's my believe that we will have something major going on in 2020 and hopefully noting close to the 1783 eruption. My generation has been really lucky despite of frequent tourist friendly eruptions but some day....
Lets hope for the best :)
Gylfi