#grindavik

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Lava crosses the main road to Grindavík and flows on the road leading to the Blue Lagoon, in Grindavík, Iceland, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. A volcano in southwestern Iceland has erupted for the third time since December and sent jets of lava into the sky. The eruption on Thursday morning triggered the evacuation the Blue Lagoon spa which is one of the island nation’s biggest tourist attractions. 

Photo by Marco Di Marco

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Volcanic Eruption l Iceland 2024 (x)

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Under the volcano - Grindavik, Iceland

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Volcanic Eruption North of Grindavîk, Iceland

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the annual Icelandic volcano sketches

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2024-05-29 - A line of lava erupting at Grindavik, Iceland again.

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Construction vehicles trying to redirect the flow of Lava from the town of Grindavík in Iceland on the 14th of January. Photo by Einn1tveir2

[piratespacex]

Oh who look who decided to come and blow up again, our good ol friend Reykjanes! Ain’t she a beauty? Not for Grindavík tbh

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Civil Protection of Iceland - A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts in Grindavik, Iceland, December 18. 2023

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Grindavik, Iceland

Billowing smoke and flowing lava pour out of a new fissure after a new volcanic eruption on the outskirts of the evacuated town of Grindavik

Photograph: Icelandic Coast Guard/AFP/Getty Images

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Exploding volcano in Iceland near Grindavik fot by Abdullah Parsa 

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US Geologist and Idaho University professor Shawn Willsey, who stayed in Grindavik while studying recent Iceland eruptions, has been providing news, maps, photos, earthquake data, explainers, info from local contacts, and answering questions as he follows Iceland's volcanic activity from afar. He'd given a drone guided tour just this morning, a few hours before the eruption commenced.

This evening, about five hours after the eruption started, Shawn and Johan from NatureEye.com gave another drone livestream of the eruption (following rules set by local authorities).

Views of lava fountains with Shawn providing context and observations (good news for the moment re: initial lava flow direction):

He's not doing this in any kind of official capacity, but because it's his area of expertise and personal interest. He was already a science educator posting geology field trip videos of interesting places around Utah and Idaho, which is how I stumbled across him. But his liveblogging this fall on Iceland's geologic unrest suddenly made his channel go viral.

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Volcanic Eruption l Iceland l May 2024 (x)

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I'm gonna be real I don't think Grindavík is going to ever recover. I think we just won't have Grindavík anymore. At least never to the capacity that we had.

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Grindavik, ísland, 2023.

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Icelandic volcano sketches