the mapped out shows the geo political reality. the on the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, the on january 14th 2024 disaster struck the coastal iceland town of green the bank. there was never supposed to be a possibility of a volcano or upson, including the just round a crack opened and the earth's surface love of began flowing towards the town. the green, vic defamation is unprecedented. globally, for having the formation of the risk valley in the middle of the populated area. more than 3000 people were evacuated. residents could only look on as lava flows

bored down on their homes. and he saw the love of slowly moving into town. and it was just like watching assess, to move in slow motion. you couldn't do anything with your students. first house school, everybody to pay the you knew the exam was never to state the for the 1st time in 800 years, the law of a field beneath green the vic is once again active. the town's inhabitants are now scattered all over iceland, torn between the need to carry on with their lives and the hope that they may yet be able to return home. we had

a town meeting with the colored and i told them that story this so they would understand how much totally hard it is to not have a whole loose all your money at the same time as you lose to community years you your security and residents have had to be relocated, businesses closed, one man who fell into a crack in the earth's crust couldn't be rescued. the question for residents is, when will it be safe to return to their homes or will grinned to vic, remain a ghost town forever. when we look at the distribution where the grabbing isn't going to fix, it's a low lying area. we know the lava is like water, it's like a river. it takes the lowest level and the landscape, right? rivers don't flow over the top of mountains. lava doesn't flow over the top of

mountains, so the easiest path is to go straight through town. there's nothing that can be done. brenda is going to start to home. was born in green, the vic like the other over 3000 residents of the coastal town. she had to leave her home on very short notice. today she's coming back to green to vick for the 1st time in weeks hoping to recover a few last items from her house. you go home, but it's not home. it's not the same. it's my house. it's almost empty. there's no people there, there's no jewel. so you're not with this 3rd school even as be so met if this thing is close there. yeah, that's it. okay. good. that's a little bit. you know, i, because i don't know the rules on who's allowed to enter the town can change by the

minute iceland, us department of civil protection and emergency management keeps track of everyone who's including the vic at any time of the day or night that way. authorities can evacuate the town immediately in the event of another, a rupture that uh, which could happen at any time, but also what, what i said, oh, okay. that the authorities tell brenda's to drive straight to her house and to leave again as soon as possible. in the movies, do you see the volcanoes and you always think about the wolf cables and if i can put the lava, but what is really destroyed whose town is not the volcanoes and the lava. it's the earth moving because of it and that there are cracks. going to town and they're just opening up the town. they're destroyed, houses. the disaster occurred not 50 kilometers from the icelandic capital re cubic . aside from the 900 metre long fisher northeast of green, the vic,

another crack opened at the northern edge of the town, scorching 3 houses with lava. brenda's his house just barely escaped, being swallowed up as well. to my house is very close to the lot of us it came in to 1000 where yard has been fun stuff because there's a crack going to it. if this doesn't feel safe and yeah, it doesn't you didn't want the level just go into the house. but let me run down to town and it took the 1st house, the damage was done, you know, the town was heard. and i remember the only thing i wish for at the time was for the law of a gold away and take my house. because the pain of not knowing what the future would look like. or if my house would be like i would get no money for

it or whatever it has to do. so my basically investment was so much that i rather want is the love to go over my house and everything of moving funds over. i would be paid by the insurance and i couldn't move on with the life the there's no reason to be here. and the people who are here are usually working and all the hardware. so it's just that goes to the, it's this set, this home home because it's not all yeah,

there's like a opening team here. like here is this guy because of the forest kind of seeking a little bit signing leases, the pain of not knowing your future and having all your savings in the house that you can't sell. you can't live in. you can be there and not being able to build the

future. and that's the no, i'm pregnant. i just want to build a home. i don't want to nest. i want to have a baby in the suit q a y requirement. the i've been born and raised to been school here is a kid. i have not all my friends. so my family here, i was in the city council. i have bills to town of coach basketball like all my big provides. well, that's been happening here and it was always supposed to be here. the doesn't have any are in the left here too long. this was the

dentist regularly checks your phone for updates at any time she might learn that the ground has opened up even more or the researchers have managed to estimate when, if ever green the vic will become habitable. again, one of those researchers is gregory de pasco, a few kilometers away. he's working to answer these questions so vital the green vics future. i think i was always curious. i really loved mountains. so i was really curious, why mountains are there? why do you have, you know, areas that are flat and why do you have areas, you know, big spike, you peaks like the elves, the and these are the rocky mountains tectonics that are really the driving force. it's kind of a balance between tectonics and climate. gregory to pass go, teaches tectonics and structural geology at the university of iceland. t in the

background is just the lucky in graduate student danielle forest. there are studying the fisher's and the earth's crust from the air tracking how they change here, and where it's really smoking a lot is where it's hitting the barriers. so we're doing repeated surveys of the tracts, overtime with the drones. and so we can use drones to surveys, we're doing high resolution photography and the photos. we can states together using the modeling technique called photogram entry. and we can make very high resolution photos. so we can actually have photos that are, are models that are on the order of like 10 sending me to resolution. so it's incredibly high resolution. so we can track how these faults and fishers move or do not move over time. using this digital photography of the case of danny. just keep an eye out for if you mind, maybe even just go to like that hill. if it looks safe to go on top of it and just

look for any helicopters or planes. the so we are located in the north atlantic, we're not far from the arctic circle right now. and this isn't oceanic spreading centers be creating crust. so the, the earth is actually extending in this area. and most of the time it doesn't actually do any extending. it's just sitting there waiting then at some point, stress builds up on the system, the when the fault rupture, the energy that we experienced as an earthquake, the sometimes the stress in the system needs

100000 or something happens. gregory takes hundreds of photos later to combine them into one high resolution image. danielle records all the important data needed for a geological computer model the other way back. it's like 210 meters and then i'll try to come back even lower, maybe like a 150 of the drones, our radical revolution. how science is done and try to teacher students. how it's done. sorry, i'm trying to monitor this as well. i go too far, i'm in the atlantic ocean. so that's but know things are changing really, really rapidly. every time we have earthquakes, we want to see if these are moving still. it's really important for recovery and

safety because there's, you know, still people working nearby here at some of these factories. so, and it of course, could still are up to again, we think it's winter up to any time the past 3 years have seen repeated erupt. sions in the region. but only recently have they started effecting residential areas. and it's not just the inhabitants of glinda, vic. in february 2020 for interruption disrupted hot water supplies to 30000 people living nearby. at a time when temperatures were around minus 10 degrees celsius, in order to predict future russians as accurately as possible. researchers have set up 30 gps stations around the queen the vic. so between the options, the whole thing starts the dome up over a large area. and so these gps stations record how that's moving over time,

and then effectively when the options take place, it's like picking the top of a balloon, the balloon starts to deflate back down. and so the stations will actually move down between interruptions are immediately after options and then they start inflating again slowly. and so it's one of the moderate monitoring ways we used to track how things are changing over time. and the really important the gps data is vital for green. the big safety before the ground began opening up. this was one of iceland, the wealthiest towns, thanks to its abundance fishing industry. sea food companies are eager to get processing plants up and running again. but 1st, the protective barrier around the town has to be extended to divert lava around residential areas. it's an expensive undertaking. the for the disaster green to fix economy was strong enough to support several professional sports teams. brenda is co coach at the towns female basketball team

since evacuating basketball games are some of the few chances. she has to meet other former residents practicing. know in the gym, that is kind of like our whole life mall. and we have a game tomorrow against natalie to tell like, arrival team sort of make it work because this is what we need to keep the communities together. people of showing up for games. and i can just see in the face is how much the team is inspiring them to keep on. and the girls know they feel it to the field of responsibility and they're actually handling it on the teams captain is foods of york, all ups daughter. like so many others, she was torn away from her home and for community i absolutely hated like i'm so

it's like a home buddy of mine and all the people in the town like this, the community. it's really like really sad like during this time business like landscape, who's the entre teammates currently trained 6 times a week? they're in the middle of iceland premier league season. but basketball has become much more than just a game. and for the green, the big players, they can meet up at the court and it's safe. and it's happy. and we can actually fight and argue, let out some energy and it's good. it's good for everybody pulls the players and fans back at the university of iceland, gregory to pasco, compiles the geological data from is excursion degree. and so this is the main western boundary of what we're calling you're going to be going to the common

. and so we, we flew over this to try to understand basically if things are changing or, or not. so there's only a little bit of evidence we can see for movement within a couple of 100 meters of this crack. and then after that there's nothing further west, so everything's happening from this crack in east. so most of the populated area is east to displace the road. on the surface, the cracks appear small here, but beneath them are chasms up to 40 meters deep, and then it keeps the researchers even found salt water at the bottom of some the tone change. so it was kind of, these are options were happening in the middle of nowhere. and the impact was basically a bit of smoke. and i mean, i can see why people get into volcano tourism. right? because it's, it's very special. it's very special, but then it changed. we're going to back and suddenly became serious. yeah, i think i get yeah. yeah. it's impossible. not according to gregory's assessment,

prentice and the rest of brenda vix, residence won't be able to return home for the foreseeable future. from my perspective, yeah, it is really bad. i mean those are permanent we, we, we call it a permanent ground information. it's like these faults move and they're not going back. we know from the history iceland that iceland is going to keep splitting apart. so the tennessee, the target for those faults to keep moving over time can't go back in time. we're on a time machine say don't build in graphic, but now that we know there's all these faults are there and maybe we should be really conscientious about land use. many a printed x. former residents are still looking for new homes. printers was able to move in with their partner cost involved in a sense, but it's not quite how the couple had hoped to start this new chapter of their lives on. yeah, and it wasn't supposed to happen in a friday afternoon in a, in

a chaotic situation. then me cry all the time. it was supposed to be a big deal. it was moment business. you know, i always pictured the talk coming with all the phones and all my stuff and real like, sit down on the couch in the evening. so half the finally living together, but instead it was like me, my basketball friend that came with with us the to cast and i was crying, watching tv about what would happen to my town. it's so it's not how you want to start living together. i just hope, of course, that it may even have a good then and a healthy baby. henry can stuff like that. now with journey as a family of 3 together, then i would thought that would be, i don't know, 6 years old to 10 years old at the north going like post getting the credit is kinda like this coast town. a view to sound like all your mom used to live here, like in this town, is here in a whole case, you're standing here. but instead taking co like to visit on france or like your

mom used to live here. but you know, this thing happened, but now everything is fine to like, hopefully, like that's a dream scenario. but of course, like, you know, you know, there's a whole fix the saying they will move back to be, will buy your no, no, but you're still playing volleyball. you do the top. remember 50. yeah. now, then i am on top of it. they have not. oh yeah, i need to see if that was true scenario appropriate if the town with go into live or do you know there with the mit like i'm fit to live in and view just has to find on it kinda like general piece i would say it's a little bit normal now because especially from case must be it has 2 or 3 already

. so it's kind of like, like like to say now the most major fun of it making paths like over do you think the next will change of income? so it's kind of almost like a day now. so it's, i think they're starting to get used to it a little bit. but of course gas daily. you're not afraid what's been what it was due to the town and the town nearby. also the while most want to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the volcano. others are trying to get as near as they can. and so i like my wife says every time is uh i have uh, i have a mistress and this of okay. one of them is volcano hunter, buran steinbeck. its a totally same experience as when it was a photo. i mean it's,

it's totally same experience and i know people are going to built in like this guy is so freaking crazy. but, but that's what it's so you know, you see something and you get really fascinated and then you go like, oh my god, i gotta see it again. i mean, just like, you know, when you meet a woman or, or boy or whatever. i mean, that's just the feeling you get. you just want to see that person can like and look at your basic when a consumer is the 2nd the same feeling i had when i saw that when people who even wouldn't be on his watching his son, tristan play soccer, he always keeps an eye on the latest earth, quick data, so that he won't miss the next spectacular, a russian there's a waiting game. it's a waiting game. uh. is it gonna rock this is not gonna rock. i'm saying about next . the reps in 247. i check the seismic activity. probably towards be 4 times an

hour. you know, i haven't been getting a lot of sleep so it, it combines and it gets pretty accessed to be on son, tristan doesn't share his father's obsession. and he's just always asking if it's have a right tune that is like kinda and i i just don't have interest in it then. yeah, i don't care much about a a reps and a happens right? no, i would just like to know that i have to go, i would jump in my kind of go to my house and we would be out there in uh, an hour hour and a half. the, the

today is a big day for going to fix basketball fans. the women's team is playing against their arch rivals from your to be. this is a big game for us, not just because there's teams number 2 or 3, but it's also because this is our neighboring house. unfortunately, we've been usually the team that loses and i want to feel a little distrust because that means that this matters to me. this matters to the team. so yeah, i have the right kinds of aimless stress to get me focused and prepared for the grid of advance have come to support their team and to catch up with friends. well, this is actually the moment that makes my day to come here and see the people from illinois because this is literally the only the only time of the day where you see everybody competing here playing basketball or after all this situation at home.

it's kind of crazy. how many people traumatize, so many people that didn't even think about this is so afraid of ok. no. i'm confused, and i hope that everybody makes it. you turn from the thing being here and see them in amazing. this is what we missed the most, the, the game is neck and neck yard. we can go into the our time hanging over the contest is the fact that this could be granted fix last season without training facilities or local sponsors. the team can't support itself if this is the last season, which i don't believe when would be great to say goodbye. when the title

between the in the in going to vic wins 77 to 69. the i'm just super happy. and super problem is i don't know how to describe feeling like just playing on the board for my home team and my amazing and i love every time i have a game, i'm super excited. the me, this is the only place where i feel like i'm still in between somebody doing something on the core uh with with home children. the mom could make me yeah. so probably feel like the

for a few days after grinned of expect to be on the court. the ground explodes again without any warning the erupt and lasts for weeks and forms of permanent crater the town is spared the law, but for now. but even so, the iceland, a government offers residents to buy their homes. brenda center neighbors can finally move on and look to the future. i decided that i want to sell my house because i want to buy a new home where i can feel safe, that i can have my family, my baby, and that way i'm financially secure. that way i can take care of myself mentally,

and i have the energy to actually focus on keeping the community together, keeping things that we can live away from synthetic the despite the researchers, wary out books been just hasn't given up hope for her hometown. i political who sled, i don't know went, but at some point i would have helped rebuild it the pursuit. i would love to set them up on this move to live bands. do piece of

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