of extinction. you're watching dw news of next, a documentary, looking at germany's torment volcanoes for all of us here in berlin. thanks for the company. we'll see you next time, the fast fashion as an environmental 9. a clothing graveyard, immature land desert. this is where things wealthy industrial nations no longer need and lightest textile ways get stranded fashion. watch now on youtube, the the volcanic i sold a landscape forged and fire shaped fine. awesome, elemental forces,

deep underground, huge glowing chunks of rock. ash that covered everything in minutes and foamed a one of a kind landscape. the volcanoes fell silent some 10000 years ago, but they're only sleeping the ease, something brewing deep below the surface of the item. how great is the danger that the volcanoes will roll back to life the, the, the in the east, if the volcanic eiffel near under. now, the forces looking benita, you showed themselves, the

cold water goes up the highest in the world. the every 2 hours the water jet erupt, reaching up to 60 meters in the, the going so, leaks explains mineralogy thorsten love, that's the fussy that's, you'll see it all guys. you'll see huge guys, a rupture. and as you name, i thought, just as each volcanic eruption is united not tosses, the rupture unleashes powerful volcanic forces deep beneath the sol as carbon dioxide from the fluid. magma meets the ground water. more and more c o 2 bubbles collect 350 meters below the surface. when it finally erupt,

the entire water column is propelled upward. yes, this one is the bonds in it, but that's gone. yeah, you can really see and feel the whole volcanic process obviously. so that helps to understand the pressure and power behind it. and then shoot another volcano erupt in the iphone in bunkie, an ice tunnels, pressing the foot. when will that happen? the volcanoes of the life of willow souls extinct. now we know that only dormant deep underground the colder and is still bubbling the traces of the last incident of a still clearly visible today. at

1st glance, lake life is a tranquil body of water. but it was created by the most powerful volcanic eruption in recent central european geological history. 13000 years ago, the it's traces can be found on the nearby. vien gets big funds, the amended, the geologist goes to huffman and phone university. the will is a window into the distant past. the launch of for lots of 1000 john's 13000 years ago. and this landscape didn't look fundamentally different from today. and then suddenly, there was this explosion, 2 of hurled ash and trucks, some 40 to 50 kilometers into the atmosphere. the, the mass either option lasted several weeks. has 1000 degrees celsius magma,

middle ground water reservoir. the of the mountain top above was blown off by an explosion of steam, as a huge column of ash, with catapulted kilometers up into the at the other one is these are at some point this column collapsed on red hot ash rushed through the landscape along the valleys and through the brother valley, for instance, when it reached the rhine river, which already existed, fucked them with cut the river off. the ashen debris swept over everything and left behind a blanket, several meters deep, th, and stepped on. it's for the fringes of what kind of pools. i'm just all stone.

describe this whole kind of corruption from the rhine and create as a recivore around what is known if you today is the logic of dominance. at some point that broke the hunters and others settled in the area experience to catastrophes and one lifetime would come. all schools 1st slopes and i felt kind of corruption and then a gigantic quarter search that went to all the way down the ryan valley into today's netherlands. the as the blue products presumed on the list of all kind of explosions. and i thought it was more an explosion than interruption. this explosion, 13000 jews ago, left us traces explode and you can see them on the wall here. as for us, these are, this is like a history book and we can study of the centrally read had this fall kind of explosion happened at all. for each single layer is like a high resolution snapshots of an individual phase of the russian. it will to

the postman regularly leads groups of scientists through here the layers of the will reveal the stages of the volcanic eruption. it doesn't say english this year, no model by so and so, and what's crazy is that such in there usually shows several tens of thousands of years with a few funds. even here we have a 13 meter cross section that represents a few weeks at the most. this is just a few minutes. this single there is a collapse in cloud november's or any kids are standing in the fight, pulled the stone notes. this is back to them, so it's not. and so we n a we night with the rad, blue mineral expelled from the mcmahon. the eiffel is one of the most important sites for us in the world. ok. yeah. let me know if you look at it's under a magnifying glass, it's really beautiful. the,

the vin gets bad vantage punch of the unesco volcanic eiffel g o cock hoffman and he's team and developing an app to allow virtual travel through the volcanic landscape. everything is precisely scanned and measured the new parking tom. i assume we're using the volcanic eiffel jewel park as a reference model of the very 1st jewel park in germany. that's offers a completely digital turning package. and all points of interest in this box can be viewed the desktop app. the app works with super precise satellite data, much more exact than basic navigation or hiking apps, the $100.00. again, it is a one to the mind here and we want to map the while back there and 3 d doctor up to

do this. you need a lot of photos on the right image processing software. so if the drone can get close enough, you can get a good 3 d image comes on the dental one on the the drone can also reach sections of the will that otherwise difficult to access the, the cameras scans at high resolution, so the computer can later generate a detailed image the, the various layers in the wall or especially in twisting. they consist mainly of pumice and tufts, interspersed with rock fragments drank, stopped by the volcanic eruption the

aspect once in the thing, it's background shows all of a sudden, mental physical kind of corruption on earth. and it's been geologically proven that there were different interruption, phases, laughter. you have to imagine it's not like an exploding powder cake by like several atomic bombs on it. and that's how powerful the home them. so dentist, a lot of the big i know it's always close as long as the so what i'm the kind of just we country lots of fresh eruption on lake loss or other volcanic structures here in the fold us. and we can only hope that would be enough warning by the for example in the form of earthquakes warms one, we don't want to paint to har. scenario bush of what's happened. 13000 years ago happened again today in a densely populated region like the rhineland. that's the truth would be catastrophic island. serious type of safari, large cities like phone industrial plants and refineries. the

rhineland chemical belt, cologne with mold and a 1000000 people. how can the region possibly protect itself from such a natural disaster? the federal academy for civil protection and disaster assistance. b, a, b k in the valley generate scenarios because such disasters. professor klaus writes you to is researching possible consequences of a fresher option of the lake loc volcano to look me able to. and so i, they gave them the sale, it would be a very high interruption column design of the app, which would be closed off immediately. because like a landing soon we wouldn't be possible good. then you'd have to see how far and how quickly the rupturing cloud spreads, depending on the wind direction to move into the

league of class. and then we'd have to consider whether vice was still usable with a critical infrastructure like trains and the power grid still worked. 20 certain vehicles may be able to drive on the free ways to evacuate people, but then things would get difficult. there are no other escape routes as you get exist in the problem is that in strongly con to landscapes like the valley or he in the eiffel and most people have settled in the valleys and so there are only 2 ways out and forwards and backwards. there is no other option, so i have your host to come forward until they sign because we've set to the this route. you must be visiting the site also, depending on where we uh, they will probably be casualties as well for that. so when do you do, hospital is must be prepared for this specific types of injuries. that volcanic

eruptions can cause cause especially bones or stuff. so they have to have dedicated burn unit, but they also need specialized units for the se amputations and emergency surgical procedures. if that would be necessary after another quick via beam businesses, unless he does nobody the that is it even possible to prepare for such a disaster? the people who humans playing in order for evacuation plans or rules of conduct? what people should do in a specific situation. that's difficult, right now. there are no plans in place like that. that may be a mistake, but i don't think it's absolutely necessary. yeah. unlike with flooding, a volcanic eruption of allows more response time because it's less than the outside . volcanic eruptions come with ample warning in the

form of trim is and gas emissions. at lake law, it's easy to forget that the ground below has still not settled. the old vocab and crate to is a unique natural paradise the but at the lake's eastern show there was still signs of old kind of captivity, most fits carbon dioxide bubbling up through the war. so the nearby, the jersey would spill to study and recreation homes. a young monk, c, 1970, when 8 of them died inexplicably gas emissions from the lake. so what blamed the young man what buried on the grounds of today's maria last abbey in the creek on

the one of the smaller chapels, whether the monks really is fixated has never been confirmed. the professor hoffman and his team of geologists, the lake, is of great interest the most fits are important to better understand volcanic activity in the eiffel. and to observe any changes the to, and viewers and shop lovers. and students in which you assign to into the system affects show that there is still a volcanic activity here. and it's not only ever molten rock that comes out of the ground just involved in the it's mostly gas gas. and this is why the amount of

escaping gas is continuously monitored. the, the scene for stack and gas if we saw a gas emissions increasing and it would be a sign that there is activity underground perhaps indicating a coming vote kind of corruption o scorpion boy. today we know that the gas bubbles and mostly carbon dioxide, escaping from huge magnet chambers about 40 kilometers on the ground. but what does that tell us? does the gas come from the magma the russian brought forth 13000 years ago, which is still slowly cooling? is fresh magma forming under the lake? a new study involving researches from several gym and institutes raises these question. numerous weak trim is a great depths indicate that meg,

my ease in motion. but there are no sort of a signal. so i thought that the volcano was preparing for another interruption. the further west, the famous months, a residence of hell volcanoes shaped the landscape. the deep finds of the eiffel, the vine failed mon you down is locally cold, the most of the dead. because of the neighboring cemetery, the wood, it's closed quite a ring. the pulls a ma is the deepest at more than 70 meters. it seems boss from the so the

sofa told her so cloudy of the buggy, but the shelton mirror and ma is the most beautiful. she is published a book of underwater photos from the crater lakes, which she worked on for years. the fact they're under the trees, they're always fish. i once search i can to take their decline to smoke perch always hide under the trees among the branches. that's nice to i'm always happy to see the dos and the she comes here again. and again, even when the temperature is dropping, the full. but it's the very special under water will have the iphone mines that fascinates the most the,

below the surface, the water of the mazda is still remarkably clear. no matter what the season at this time of year, the water is only 10 degrees celsius in winter, it goes down to 3 or 4 degrees. the what happens would assume that it's an because he sometimes it feels like the caribbean because of the turquoise blue water from all. and there are so many fish of tina fisher, if you just float quietly available to them right by you, by

a common and when you died kind spot page by car and tension the hatch. there's really a lot to see as this, this location has a lot still pulling out a bound. bullshit in flow. solely by rain morsa would the result hennick rock lay as best said solely by rain, more to which 1st seats through volcanic rock lay as before flowing into the ma. well filtered and clean. the lesson is done. yeah. that's on. so what fascinates me is the depth of some of them are supposed to be. the programmer is 17 meters deep and they're striking mountain mark is 35 meters deep and ones you can get

a feel for it. steps at the creature room. what do you see how the sharp dropped continues under the short i didn't look for one was there so we need to be aware that it could go off at any time. that's just the way it is on fossil and that's also the last direction was 12 or 13000 years ago. scientists say one should occur roughly every 10000 years. so in fact, we're overdue, the mazda end volt tenant cones, grace the landscape within magical chum, and to test to the fiery past of the volcanic awful, the

volcanic activity, you still every way, even if it's not always apparent. at 1st glance, the interval penny going full region, the surface is rising by about one millimeter per year. even more in some places. these can only be measured from high in the air. what's causing this? is it the gas is rising from the mag, much in this deep, underground pool hot springs, the, when the food comes to the only full traces of possible kind of captivity can be found in the topography of the landscape. the bustled columns, rise from summit, the numerous volcanic cones often hicks, i can know the figures which shaped thousands of years ago during a volcanic eruption when hot lava escaped and then slowly cooler.

the in the quarries of the volcanic eiffel lava best sold has been mined for centuries . as here near the village of strewn in the past, the hard stone was used for building houses and paving roads. even the banks of the rhine were fortified with 6 sided vessel, collins. today the stone is mostly crushed into gravel and grits bene down is the most. are strewn stone. he manages the b corey, and knows the long history of the place for you in the eyes. the solid and beyond. there were 3 big of options here, 34000 years ago of this concept, and this whole valley filled up with lava follicles. the geologists are still looking for the old of back valley, down here,

and then also does of the others left off the, the lava flows solidified and phone the wide, 30 major c layer of paso. here's the funds of the companies there. for example, you can tell the difference, and down below you can see the bus on to there and further up the fluid where it gets more reddish. you can see that there are a lot of asking, and although you can really tell that there is a car to good, just like back there, that's the bustle to there. you can see the love of the 1969. cory work has stumbled across a sensation. a blast released a huge rock formation from the corey will 15 meters up. the 1st they weren't sure what they were looking at. a cool sample cleared it up. it was a gigantic lava boom that had been flung out of the volcanic crater.

the strong love of them was discovered back there and just laid there for some time . finally, they, we missed a policy of strong decided they wanted to. then the question was, how to get this thing over there? it weighs 120 tons to them. how do you move a stone, measuring almost 5 meters across over the fields from the quarry to the village? we don't watch the wind is blowing up on up to a lot of pieces in mid deadlines. and obviously they waited until the ground had frozen over the winter of the island. options was i'm to 5 and a well to be going plates together and rolled the bomb onto them. when i thought maybe i should be able to took a large caterpillar and a bulldozer question from behind to move to boulder across the field to where they wanted it decided, oh, i'm a single octopus. but where did the joint real come from?

the cool sample revealed that the lava bone consisted of many layers that had built up one after the other around a cool, like an onion. in the law, the bomb was probably flung upwards during the rupture, and then repeatedly rolled back into the crater of the active volcano. in the process, it became sticker and stick. before it was finally encased in molten lava, where it remained until it was exposed in the quarry the today it's the main attraction of this move. village of strewn volcanic stone from the icy region was covered to building material as early as the middle ages. the maria la abbey was built mainly out of the dock bustled and light

tough the at austin cathedral tough. these even found on the night sided central structure, the famous caroline g and ok to go on. the v. tenix stone from the nibbling only thing was also shipped along the rhine to help build cologne's cathedral. and i so tough was continually used for repair with brave men from the mineral rich village, a vibe, and helped of the 19 o one. a railroad line was built now popular with tourists, as the vote con,

express disproved the stone, like tough thomas and bustled to the rhine at the winter hub or in bruise, it was being loaded onto the ships a lifeline. so the iso and a stroke of luck for the village of 5 man with all kenny, corruptions, full 100000 years ago, deposited a massive layer of tough perfect building materials for churches. the child is light and easy to work with the same. if you look back from the 19th century onwards, at the construction of cathedrals and volts were being, you realize this is i do material lightweight and able to bed heavy load just thought i nice. why is the humans but i deal for the slender

arches stretching toward the heavens. the worlds of ham, but also built with tough from vibe in the stone masons, gave the stone and its characteristic surface texture. with him is she's those, and which is a f o r y o for the q and shit. the do for the corey was also the production site in the stone was still dumped when it was brought to the store house on longer and then clicked into rough sizes for the stone masonry steinmetz situation. extortion to yourself. i hope to, at the start of the 20th century mold in 1200 stonemason is what the tough from 5 bins growth are real, boomed to the small village to gush. each vice for shy and tough is a soft stone made up of solidified default kind of ash,

depending on where they are found. the layers can be course, are quite fine. good guns, pine wood don't change at the shower, say yet does eat minus the number of houses here, where you can see that the masters and the cory owners had the money to have a leverage for sides both on the i'll send you a buzz on the vibe in was able to afford its own water and sewer network earlier than on the villages and had electricity as early as 1915. but the demand for tough fell from the 19 sixty's on woods and the boom ended. today. the many tough houses still bear witness to the village is full of my prosperity, the

. the many volcanic cousins of the iphone windows only used as quarries. some of them still provide living spaces today of the, for the rulers of the middle ages. the top of such a volcano, it was a good place for a fortress. there were plenty of stones for building and was a panorama old brook console, for example, seats proudly at top of 460 meta high volt kenny cone. the new abode stands even higher as an altitude of more than 670 meters, but he's best known for the famous race cools at the foot of the mountain. the renewable agreeing was originally built to provide the pull eiffel region with

a new source of income and onto the asphalt, on which famous racing drivers have done their laps. line message of love, of best salt, from the quarries of the volcanic iso. to date your ability even when burying enormous loads, made them the ideal foundation the today, it's almost forgotten that the ancient ruin of new a book castle sits on an extinct volcano. but the volcanic origin of many places can be seen from above the room. a bed is a cone and solidified slag in front of it is the stroma. it's almost completely sealed, it up the

some of the extinct volcanoes provide the perfect conditions for recreational athletes to may have failed to. ma, for example, is popular with powered light is the what sits the smaller apart from others is the form of its crate to rim. it's very steep and so exposed in some places that it makes, but just the right take off slope. above the steep curved crate to ring, you can fly perfect circles like the wind is rise. and with the views like this, it's like a dream come true. the . the volt county county police, a world of water, and not only because of its many months,

there are plenty of places where water rises to the surface. as in the voltage shift with its steep walls, the volcanic trends of the list spectacular, but still valuable for the region is another phenomenon. there is springs everywhere in the eiffel, some hidden in the middle of the forest. andreas schuler from the volcanic eiffel, g o, a cock knows where these trays come from. the in the case of the guys in under enough, it's carbon dioxide that drives the ground water up through the volcanic rock. the, the, the special aspect of this area is the fact that the water contains not only minerals but also a significant amount of carbon dioxide which device month. oh

is, excuse me and we know from chemical studies that this, the to like other gases originates from the venting process of the magnet deep in the cross list and the upper mantle as well. so you could say that the iphones, mineral waters, also contain the breath of the volcanoes and heighten the would raise these celtic for willing spring. the does, this is here. this is the dash side to phase it's carbonated, it's fusing and also it has a very, very high i am content on top. in fact, it's the mineral water with the highest i am content in the volcanic iphone isn't got. if you end up with con josh side, garalie stein down, almost every community here has its own spring. the settlements grew up around them

. that place this odds and so mine and been of these waters contain minerals and the guns and a number may even have medicinal applications, intuitive properties for the looks 3. and so the idea arose to capitalize on these properties, to bring some cash into the regions a month. and also if i schedule the like your supply today, the volt kenny call the police known for its many varieties of curative mineral water. the rou, lake and the north west of the eiffel is also a drinking water reservoir. a massive dam holds back the ruler river at almost 80 meters in height. it protects the people down stream from a catastrophic flood. but what would happen if the dam was damaged, say, why a powerful this quake. this is why deep down in the dam daily inspections that

performed to ensure everything is in order. this is the job of dam safety engineer, band hod hipkins. the pendulum shows every little movement, minimal swings, and normal. they may, madame, is functioning properly. but what is the nearby volcanic eiffel stance to rumble? if the volcanoes reawaken the 1st quakes would be the 1st signs we are leading to my inbox one. that's why we're talking about around 200000000 cubic meters of water, tom, height of 77 meters. if something happened it would be huge. and so we just have to make sure that the safety is guaranteed around the clock is here in the fall south of the volcanic, only 2 lines,

an important measuring station else console stands and assigned valley of the most a river dr brigade took snuff. my intro and hits, besides my logical observe a treat that cologne university. she and her colleague klaus fleischer visit the 12th century console regularly. they have no interesting orioles or targets. they going underground the here in the deepest volt of the castle, directly on the rocky ground. the university has installed a highly sensitive science, mcgrath it registers every vibration, no matter how gentle the,

let's see, i'm the i for i'm this will here any i said we have on average about 50 to a 100 tremors a year. but most of them are so minor that they cannot be solved by humans since my form mentioned bonnie baldwin. as dustin how, what's this distance trema that exactly isn't that something let us give us just before 12 or 12 it will have to take a look later. it was relatively short quarters to those which is so if this waves from a bloss to thing, then from that of calls that could be this course to be. most of the strongest quick we have reported with instruments was in 2007 near. besides, which had a magnitude of $3.00 and was felt over a great distance and the found on the bottom it was in 2015. this one is my logical station recorded an unusual phenomena that is occupied. the scientific world ever

since. first trim is from deep beneath the full, the doesn't alter, keeps me in the dark, nice with the deepest quakes ever recorded in germany. and they had a special signature where they look different from the quakes. we usually see here . this does not necessarily mean that maxima is rising, but there is definite movement and with the movement that could indicate that maxima is gathering again on the ground. the volcano is becoming active. these raises questions, the emission given them not to someone in which areas should we actually expect this mainly in the area of lay class or perhaps even further west, where volcanic centers were more recently active. the goal is to better understand what is down there and how dangerous it may be. that auto see

a goal shed by seismic geologist, professor russia to at the federal academy of civil protection. so he's what the measurements are important to indicate is the these at the machine tech line is inclined to shoot the woman these earthquakes. very small trim is open ended the interesting point because such an accumulation may full cost of volt county corruption. hospital fine is that worked really well with a lot palm interruption. this year we had seismic signals that effectively full cost of this maxima rise de jesus the might be some lockman of duke. and changing the diesel, loud enough time to prepare thousands of people for the method of rupture and have cooper in the house and to bring them to safety from the ash and red hot lava

knowledge, which is just as valuable. so the ice a whole bunch of the morning time, i think this is by steve. this idea of what we're doing here at the moment is passive. we're just listening to the us and trying to interpret signals coming from different depths is, can you hear me now? let's see to the earthquakes at lake last, where the deepest earthquakes in all of gemini a record. they go down to about 40 kilometers, which means that we have to position additional devices and listen to different locations and guns with the sheet. the what does this to specify, move and that's what we're working on and why the eiffel is a real laboratory for us, a moving research project and why it is actually a jewel of research of volcanic activity in germany. this we can use moving towards

the a june bonus bio of fire, still smoldering deep beneath the eye. so no one knows when the volcanoes will awaken. but one thing is certain, we will be ready for it. the the maritime trade and tourism can be powerful sources. the beacon nomic growth, but they come with greater risks than before. container shipping is vulnerable to both accidents and political conflict. crew ships caused considerable environmental damage. can we still afford these enormous vessels made in germany? in such a minutes, on the w refugees,

welcome. one german vintage takes in 5 times as many people as the official quote to require. how is that possible? many residents assist refugees and funding language courses and jobs. we accompany one of these volunteers and is to help focus on 0 in 90 minutes on d w. the faithful encounter in the late 19 seventy's, former concentration camp inmates general most meisner, i met the man who had to maintain him. go stop bogged, known as the beast of sleep or shame on you. tell the truth.

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