and that's after a very short break. thank you so much for watching the not just another day. so much is happening all at once. we take time to understand this is the day i'm in that's look at current use events, analyzed by experts and critical thinking is weekdays on dw, 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 the only sleeping is something brewing deep below the surface of the i. so 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 benny cus 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. yeah. the going so leaks explains mineralogy thorsten lump. that's the fuzzy. that's your 0 guys. your stage guys, a rupture, and as you name, i thought, just as each volcanic eruption is you name with us, is the rupture unleashes powerful. volcanic forces deep beneath the full as carbon dioxide from the fluid. magma meets the ground floor to 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 you understand the pressure and power behind it and then shoot another volcano erupt in the iphone bunkie. and i think you know who tunnel is pressing the. but when will that happen? the volcanoes of the life will, will low thoughts extinct. now we know that only dormant deep underground, the colder and is still bubbling the, the traces of the last incident of a still clearly visible today. at

1st glance, lake last 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 fund, the amended, the geologist goes to huffman. as phone university, the will is a window into the distance past, the launcher for that's a 1000 john's 13000 years ago. this landscape didn't look fundamentally different from today. and then suddenly there was this explosion, 200 hurled ash and trucks some 40 to 50 kilometers into the atmosphere. the, the mass either option lasted several weeks as 1000 degrees celsius magma, mesa,

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 and red hot ash rushed through the landscape along the valleys and through the brother valley. for instance, when it's reached the rhine river, which already existed fact then 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. what kind of corruption from the rhine and create has 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 we pump. all schools 1st slow tonight and i felt kind of corruption and then a gigantic quarter search that went all the way down the ryan valley into today's netherlands. 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 is poor 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 volcanic explosion happened to cut off each single layer. there's like a high resolution snapshots of an individual phase of the russian hill 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, there's no model visor in. so and what's crazy is that switching there usually shows several tens of thousands of years with a few bonds. 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 of amber's or any other center of the fi pulled the stone notes . this is connected and so it's not. and so we n a we night with the rad blue mineral expelled from the magma the eiffel is one of the most important sites, the worst in the world. expensive. yeah. if you look at it's under

a magnifying glass, it's really beautiful. levine gets bad vans. he's part 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, as 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 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. 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 that can later generate a detailed image the, the various layers in the wall are especially interesting, and they consist mainly of pumice and tufts interspersed with rock fragments drank, stopped by the volcanic eruption the

aspect funds in the thing. it's backbone shows all the settlements, this whole kind of corruption on earth. and it's been geologically proven that there were different interruption phases boxes. you have to imagine. it's not like an exploding powder keg, but 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 pressure, russian 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. but of what happened, 13000 years ago happened again today in a densely populated region like the rhineland. that's the truth would be catastrophic island to mr. foster. father 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 generates scenarios for such disasters. professor klaus right you to is researching possible consequences of a fresher option of the lake lock volcano. so wasn't able to own, 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 a landing simply would the possible good. then you'd have to see how far and how quickly the rushing 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. countries 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 come to landscapes like the valley or he and the eiffel 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 the host to come forward until they sign because it gets sent to the this route enough. the v was into the site also the 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, is that so they have to have dedicated burn unit. but they also need specialized units for se amputations and emergency surgical procedures if that would be necessary after another quick via the businesses, unless he does nobody the that is it even possible to prepare for such a disaster? the people who humans playing the order for executive ation 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 yet. unlike with flooding, a volcanic eruption allows a 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 old. the old vocab and crate to is a unique natural paradise the but it, the lakes east and 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 2 and viewers in shop life is interesting to achieve a scientist 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 costs. and this is why the amount of

escaping gas is continuously monitored. the, the assume for stack and gas if we saw a gas emissions increasing, it would be assigned that there is activity underground, perhaps indicating a coming volcanic eruption how scorpions or 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 eruption 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 depth 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 same as much as a residence of hell, volcanoes shaped the landscape. the deep finds of the eiffel the vine failed mon you down is locally cold the month of the dead. because of the neighbouring cemetery, the wood, it's closed quite a ring. the pull them out is the deepest at more than 70 meters. it seems bush unless the 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 there are 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 mines is still remarkably clear. no method 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 sometimes it feels like the caribbean because of the turquoise blue water from all. and there are so many fish in officials. if you just float quietly, they will swim right by you by

a common and when you die and kind spot page by car and tension the hatch, there's really a lot to do as a smoke ish um, it says in down here flora and phone, a bound over most of the most have no regular water in float there fed solely by rain morsa, which 1st sleeps 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, so the programmer is 17 meters deep and they're striking man. and mark is 35 meters deep on monday you can get a feel for it. steps at the creature room. what do you see? how the sharp drop continues under the short i will for one was or should we

need to be aware that it could go off at any time? that's just the way it is on folks to the. 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 and volcanic kinds grace the landscape with the magical ch um, and a test to the fiery past of the volcanic eiffel, the kind of captivity use to every, when, even if it's not always apparent. at 1st glance, the

interval penny going full region. the earth's 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 magnet chambers, deep underground pool, hot springs, the when the food comes to the eye. so traces of possible kind of captivity can be found in the topography of the landscape. the bustle, colin's rise from some of 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 columns. today the stone is mostly crushed into gravel and grits. bene down is the most are strewn stone. he manages the b quarry and knows the long history of the place, or 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 that's kind of the others left off the, the lava flows solidified and phone the wide,

13 major stick layer of the best. so here's the funds of the companies there. for example, you can tell the difference, and down below you can see the bus on flare and further up wordly where it gets some more reddish. you can see that there are a lot of us, even though you can really tell that there's a hard to just look back there. that's the bustle to there. you can see the love of the 1969, cory workers 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 lay there for some time

. finally, they were just a policy of strong decided they wanted to tell them the question was how to get this thing over there. it weighs $120.00 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 the largest piece. it didn't mean deadlines and obviously they waited until the ground had frozen over the winter with the ies and stuff into the 5. then they welded big guy and plates together and rolled the bomb onto them. when i thought maybe i that should be a, 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. the lava bomb was probably flung upwards during the a rupture, and then repeatedly rolled back into the crater of the active volcano. in the process, it became sick 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 last heavy was built mainly out of the dock bustled and light tough. the at austin

cathedral tough is even found on the right side of the central structure. the famous caroline gee, and octagon, the v. tenix stone from the nibbling only thing was also shipped along the rhine to help build cologne's cathedral and ice so tough was continually used for repair. with brave men from the mineral rich village of vi been helped the 19 o one a railroad line was built. now popular with tourists, as the full con, express, disproved the stone, like tough thomas and bustled to the rhine at the winter hub or in bruce,

it was then load it onto the ships a lifeline. so the iso and a stroke of luck for the village of 5 in whitfield county, corruptions, 400000 years ago, deposited a massive layer of tough perfect building materials for churches, the tough he's 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 ball. 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 it's characteristic surface takes joe 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 ranada and then cuts into rough sizes for the stone masonry, steinmetz swish extortion through stuff i over at the stats of the 20th century mold in 1200 stonemasons. what to you? tough from vi been brought a real boom 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. and see the layers can be course, are quite fine, good guns, pine,

a dungeon debt to show how is it he, it does eat minus the number of houses here, where you can see that the master's and the cory owners had the money to have a leverage besides both on the apologize to the vibe in was able to afford its own water and sewer and 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 prosperity. the many volcanic cousins of the iphone,

windows certainly used as quarries. some of them still provide living spaces today 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 ends. what a panorama old brook console, for example, sits probably until about 460 meter high volt kenny cone renewable. it stands even higher as an altitude of more than 670 meters. but he's best known for the famous rice 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 messes of love,

of best sold from the quantities of the volcanic iso. the state, your ability, even when bearing 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 up the sum of the extinct volcanoes provide the perfect conditions for recreational athletes. the may have failed. 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 of 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 volcanic calling felisa 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 shipped 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. andrea's schuler from the volcanic eiffel g, a puck knows where these drains come from. in the case of the guys in under now, 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 of the vice month. i was to see more and we know from chemical studies that this, the to, like other guesses, originates from the venting process of the magnet deep in the cross list and the

opera mantle as well. so you can say that the iphone is mineral water is also contained the breath of the volcanoes and height in the would raise these celtic for willing spring. the that's this is here, this is the dash side to raise it's carbonated. it's susie and also 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 guy josh, i garo stein down. almost every community here has its own spring. the settlements grew up around them, either place this odds in some island been of these waters contain minerals and the guns and number may even have medicinal applications. intuitive properties for good

looks to be and so the idea of a is to capitalize on these properties to bring some cash into the region some off and all it. let's go to the like your plan. today, the volt kenney calling the police known for its many varieties of curative mineral water. the rule lake and the north west of the field 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 by a powerful this quake? this is why deep down in the damn daily inspections are 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 main madame is functioning properly. but what is the nearby volcanic eiffel stance to rumble? is the volcanoes reawaken us? quakes would be the 1st signs we are leading to my inbox when that's when we're talking about around $200000000.00 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 as it 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. the doctor brigade

took snuff by a intruding hits. besides my logical observer, treat that cologne university. she and her colleague klaus fleischer visit the 12th century console regularly. they have no interest in oreos 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 the let's see, i'm the i for visual 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 felt by humans since my

form mentioned bonnie baldwin. stoughton, what's this distance remo? exactly. isn't that something let us give us just before 12 we'll have to take a look later. it was relatively short quarters. oh, those were just so this waves from a bloss to effect and then from there i was calls. that could be this course to be . most of the strong this quick we have reported with instruments was in 2007 near side, which had a magnitude of 3.9 and was felt over a great displacement 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 iphone. the

doesn't alter, keeps being the northeast with the deepest quakes ever recorded in germany, and they had a special signature on the thing. that's what 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 eagles and movement that could indicate that maxima is gathering again on the ground. the volcano is becoming active. these raises questions, the emissions, even the summit in which areas should we actually expect this mainly in the area of lake laugh 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. for his work. the

measurements are important to indicate is the these at people's insects i'm just inclined to shoot to them in these earthquakes. very small trim is open ended. the interesting the probably because such an accumulation may full cost of volt county corruption. hospital fine is that worked really well with a lot palm interruption to see if we had size mixed signals that effectively full cost this maxima rise. the market pieces might be some lockman of duke and trinity, [000:00:00;00] the diesel, loud enough time to prepare thousands of people for the massive erupt sion of 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 will be more in 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. this could 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 against window she the with us as the specified 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 like a jew 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 of the go in the one to known as the city of a 1000 league. now the water is stares and the sources that remain are polluted. but nature may be able to provide the solution just pollution coming home based for me to have these to be equal in 30 minutes on the w. the big problem is not the killing us and the government is

doing nothing to stop doing. that's what i can't imagine losing a child. and then when, when your child risk your life for political change, it needs to be stronger. for the insurance doesn't change everything now which i'm forced to suspend or do you stand off foot people and then do that. i think it of us and them in 90 minutes on dw the we've got some hot tips for your package. this romantic code is spots affinities. check on some great cultural memorials to boots w travel. we got

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