d.w. dot com. the icelandic volcano or after your cold has awoken from its deep slumber and threatens to erupt. extreme athlete i nasa goosen is preparing for the worst. case scenario that will come down from the mountain will only give me 20 minutes ringback. i know has worked as a farmer a fisherman and a carpenter but he loves the glaciers and the volcanoes in the ice so much that he has found a way to enjoy iceland's bizarre natural beauty almost every day he guides hikers climbers and fresh air enthuses through the lonely mountains today he's joined by

sarah and sam 2 business consultants from london. hina is famous in iceland he's explored almost all the ice caves in the glass is. all right. to move. today the volcano is clearly visible it doesn't look like a volcano but like a long mountain ridge time to carry on on force. the.

but. don't. think too that highness says that without spikes you would slit after 2 meters on the glass your eyes almost up. to me. and. after one hour the 3 reached the crevice discovered by 50 year old i know some 10 music. news and then the pure glazed see our eyes shine as acrimony and turquoise. the

ice several tens of thousands of 1st film. then it was compressed and became broken heart and transparent almost like glass. sometimes there are streaks of fine layers of ash in the ice traces of volcanic eruptions from bygone centuries. people ask me why. you know it's well of course i can come up with some scientific explanation that i learned like yeah you know there. is only that.

you know this i am this reporter. traveling this deep through. blocked or go all the way through different very. but via ishtar ice very simple explanation i really love this group most i love it this is why he said that. i say it's because i love me. but i'm happy. to read it. and then buy the gas star of another color as he is. it's seen in the reflection of the flame on the wall and ceiling. the.

right which was covered entirely by snow and ice erupted in $1360.00 to get comfortable much the entire island with much the cloud spread in the upper layers of the atmosphere and. eastern iceland and parts of northern europe. it's estimated that the eruption cost the lives of millions of people worldwide. 36. so. now in 201-820-0100 extension 0. but iceland is against another possible major option. also in the. the emergency warning system the volcano became active in november 27 tane with numerous earthquakes it's summer change shape and the readings taken at monitoring

stations rose alarmingly scientists in the capital reykjavik asked residents on the south east of iceland to regulate check the values at the monitoring stations. pharmacy google nasa and agreed to help. he knows how important precise data can be in the worst case scenario as. he checks g.p.s. installations repairs solar panels and like today looks for signs that show whether the volcano is coming down or still looks menacing. the river has its source directly below the volcano. every underground mumbling in the belly of the volcano is reflected in the melt water. was.

robbed by measuring conductivity remember at low levels and what a lot of water comes directly from the volcano if there's ever you have the highest electrical conductivity or group you know because. the right to do called had been in a deep sleep for almost 300 years so scientists have paid it little attention. since it's a whitening that has changed instead of 9 measuring instruments there are now 26. weekly meeting of the crisis response group in the capital reykjavik q kristin your is in charge of the earth quite. monitoring system e. heritage and colleague. coordinates the volcano emergency teams. the data from the potential disaster area is analyzed by the icelandic

meterological office an innocent sounding name for the crisis response center which issues commands to all the country's authorities rescue teams and air traffic control lives depend on the exact calculation of wind force and direction quantity and composition of volcanic ash. which is the timeline of the. international. you know various. just seismologists geologists and volcanologists are currently focusing their attention on iceland's highest elevation under which it has been bubbling flowing and vibrating since the end of 2017. in the volcano definitely has been and probably is the deceiving balm this is music

he is somehow reflecting these these changes in the part of the system. and what we do currently in our 24 hour monitoring at all here we are keeping an eye and a moment on area for you just to be able to identify all those signals that might be over the short term also showing that there are acceleration or rather changes in the system that might be pic or sorry for interruption. the icelanders take the threat from the sleeping giant so seriously that the intervals between emergency exercises have been shortened. researchers will never forget nov 2017 the seismic signal sent out by the volcano were extreme it was like he's in a church bell with a sledgehammer. i

can't even show you here laptop. first. it's kind of off base we're just this is from 2005 and here in 2017 years that this is in place and it doesn't really matter what you look at if you look at the month. if you look at the market there if you look at the energy release from the earthquakes like everything is going up so it's just it's obvious that something happened there you know slew of what's happening and all of us and here in taunton 17 starts to increase both the number of earthquakes and size of the it will happen at some point but there will be an eruption. and the question is just when. i slammed is blessed with breathtaking nature rich fishing grounds and

a unique energy source. electricity production on iceland is 100 percent renewable a quarter of it is generated by geothermal power plants as this one between the international airport and the capital reykjavik so much energy is produced that the export of surplus power is being considered laying an undersea cable to connect iceland to the european power grid becomes more and more feasible as energy prices increase but electricity and hot water are cheap on osland an island with natural central heating an undoubted advantage of living on one giant volcano. but the downside of the constant eruptions.

there are 100. 30 volcanoes in iceland 30 of them are active there have been 40 eruptions in the past 100 years. this have out every farm has been located directly under the i.f.a. local to volcano since 1906. it was taken over by all of her existence family in 1906 until airlie 2010 the farm supplied the family with an abundance of projects but then the volcano erupted.

it 6 kilometers to the mouth of the volcano from here we can see the glaciers and the whole mountain range of. 3000 earthquakes were registered between the 3rd and 5th of march 2010 alone the following a ruction exceeded all fears. water mcgurn but we had 200 animals in the stable. and if you ask a vanguard caregiver for whoever thought of my family was able to drive safely. i thought ok this is all we have left. we didn't imagine we would suddenly have to abandon the farm the land and the animals before it i guess what after the disaster only opened a small private museum on his farm. thousands of tourists from all over the world have already visited to learn about the dramatic events that took place in march and i pulled 2010. doesn't admit it but it seems as if what happened traumatized

him but instead of opting for therapy he got over the shock by watching images of those dramatic events over and over again sometimes hundreds of times. you released your living room. it's very clear that. on march the 20th 2010 the earth opened several kilometers east of where your for your quote. lover emerged from an elongated feature and flowed towards the northeast. at 1st it was an exciting up mostly harmless natural spectacle. but then on the morning of april 14th

a 2 kilometer long crevasse broke open on the summit pushing the sub trainee and world skywards the volcano was covered by a several 100 meter thick ice cap millions of millions of tons of melt water formed under the glance. a tard away into the valley. people had been evacuated in time and luckily there were no casualties. but the collision of ice and lava led to the lava cooling down within seconds and exploding an ash cloud it rose 9 kilometers into the sky and brought air traffic endurable to a standstill. in the immediate vicinity of the volcano a day turned into night very very hard to track sreng down. covering every square meter of land and every remaining house every car every straight.

owner for it since farm was among those destroyed. but all of her and his family survived and eventually they were able to return to the farm together with his wife grew he began to free the found from the ash a task which would take years. around 2 thirds of all icelanders live in the reykjavik region and 150000 people live in the rest of the country 'd more than 2000000 tourists visit iceland every year and that increases the danger to human life notably in the event of an eruption. since dura

for you called geophysicists like magnus good winsome from the university of reykjavik have been on the alert in the 1st few weeks the magma came close to the surface or so close that the ice above it melted it all really was quite alarming because. well we have not seen this type of precursors being sort of the 1st really big one. we have to be we have to be careful we have to realize that we don't know everything beforehand and beyond what may be ongoing and because there is a possibility of work for the staff to of his noting that it will accumulate in the county and then come out of a float and the characteristic of those is that there would be very little spiffed it would happen very fast. on the slopes it could be only 20 minutes

from the start of the walk. it's that it's the main road and want to do it is the mental the mental to squat. the magma has longer time to. get they tend to be more explosive than it. is for that reason strangely dangerous when an option happens. this small settlement of hof shows how dramatic the situation could become here everyone in a 10 kilometer area are expected to come to the combines nursery and school in an emergency evacuation would then take place from there. in the past such meeting points was set up for several dozen iceland as today several 100 tourists could join them ainus son also goes to school here. but his house is

a few kilometers to the east so he would have to go to another meeting point that means the family would be separated in emergency and. the school is located just below oya for you. 5 children attend the school 3 of them a sick today including 9 a son and so just 3 people take part in lessons including teacher and burling theseus magnhild. do you know how she lives 1st if our marriage you know where in europe children build forests rel wise and castles here they work on erupting volcano has. just said to fairy it's very dangerous just conked if i was here the volcano

could just write everything right here on this couple everything and the whole area oh. yes it's very dangerous unfortunately lyta. and then the teacher explains the evacuation plan which is issued by the authorities one of the meeting points around the minutes in volcano is here in hoff everyone in the surrounding area has to go to the school immediately all icelanders a wound by text message or found call the teacher will be responsible for her pupils. she is dreading it you know that. i now has climbed his volcano over 300 times from the ring road below up to the summit. today he wants to know what it looks like at the top.

scenes have been shot for several international feature films on the bizarre places below or you for your call to batman begins interstellar or game of thrones. are now has sometimes watched the filming from a distance but he's less interested in the films when the volcano itself in good weather you can see how for iceland from the top.

yeah by now advises the pilot on where best to land his helicopter. to. minus 15 degrees celsius. this is where the crater of the volcano is located. it's covered by a $600.00 metre thick layer of ice. i mean i was able to measure that the ice was sinking and this is where the volcano would erupt and i decided to walk through the depression with his g.p.s.

device in order to provide scientists with accurate data. he did this with a symbol of faith across. and by walking from north to south and then from west to east. preconceive cannot be president down there this has just been forming the last year and probably different from here in my g.p.s. measurement is a little over 20 meters across on this like 600th meet that thick ice

here so the heat has been melting very safe place here and has been dropping down you know for for the dust. is definitely going on and on we have hot and like every day there are f. quakes here but small but every few weeks we have like 3 idiots that earthquakes you know but it is trembling going on in the mountain for the last year like every day before that for many years you did not see it was a big nuisance of any kind of earthquake here the dow is like every every day and i very few weeks quite pick up many times they've been feeding this ash place down to the farms on the whole thirsty of the loaf. and when will an as volcano erupt nobody knows but the iceland has been making careful preparations.

when the volcano erupted in 2010 it was on the news for days the ash cloud reached a height of almost 10 kilometers if the earlier figure called were to erupt as violently as it did in the 14th century experts expected to spew out a 20 or 30 kilometer high column of the ash such an eruption would be around a 100 times stronger than the one in 2010. after the huge eruption in $1362.00 the survivors gave the volcano and the entire region a new name. raving it means desert or wasteland.

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