the find out about bailey story. info, migraines, reliable news for migrant. wherever they may be. the, on january 14th, 2024. disaster struck the coastal iceland town of green the bank. there was never supposed to be a possibility of both cain or ups and including the just round a crack opened and the earth's surface love of began flowing towards the town. the dream to vic defamation is unprecedented. globally, for having the formation of the risk valley in the middle of the population area. more than 3000 people were evacuated. residents could only look on as lava flows

bore down on their homes. and he saw the lava slowly moving into town. and there was dislike, watching, assess, to move in slow motion. you couldn't do anything with your students. first house school, everybody to pay the you knew during the state the for the 1st time in 800 years, the lava field beneath green the vic is once again active. the towns 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. and we had

a town meeting with the colored and i told them that story this so they would understand how much, totally hard to this, 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 glinda 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 victor 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 to this new job. so now it just 3rd school even as be. so mat, if this thing is close there. yeah, that's it. okay. it doesn't know, but 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 that also what the price of oh, okay. that to 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 wall cables and you think about the lava. but what is really destroyed in this town is not the volcanoes and the lava. it's the earth moving because of it. and that there are cracks going through town and they're just opening up the town. they're destroyed, houses. the disaster occurred not 50 kilometers from the iceland to 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 house just barely escaped being swallowed up as well. to my house is very close to the lot of us. it came into town, then we're yard has been fun stuff because there's a crack going to it. there's doesn't feel safe and yeah, it doesn't you didn't want the level just go into the house. so 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 the 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 wanted the love to go over my house and everything and everything's done over. i would be paid by the insurance and i couldn't move on with a life the there's no reason to be here. and the people who are here are usually working, you know, the hardware. so it's just that goes to the yeah, it's this set to somehow because it's not. oh yeah,

there's like a opening team here. like here is this guy because of on the floor is kind of seeking a little bit finally, see 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 freshman. 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 the school here as a kid, i have not all my friends. so my family here i was in the city council. i how bills the town of coach basketball like all my big life. 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 that 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 forester 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 over time with 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, 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 has done and tried his 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 the entre teammates currently trained 6 times a week there 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, pull the players and fans back at the university of iceland, gregory, the 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 take robin

. 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 and east. so most of the populated area is east to displace the road. on the surface, the cracks appear small here, but the neat 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 very special. it's very special, but then it changed for granted back and suddenly became serious. yeah, i think, i guess. yeah, yeah. it's impossible not according to gregory's assessment,

prentice and the rest of brenda vix, residents 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 don't have 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 ex former residents are still looking for new homes. prentice 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 lights on. yeah, and it wasn't supposed to happen in a friday afternoon in a,

in a chaotic situation. i'm me cry all the time. we were 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 happy finally living together. but instead it was like me, my basketball friend that came 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've 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 found below 3 together. then i thought that would be, i don't know, 6 years old. the 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 and see the whole case. you're standing here, but instead taking cold like to visit the on france,

i 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, by the know, by yourself playing volleyball. you do the top, remember 50 now then i am on top of it. they have not. oh yeah, i need to see if it was try scenario appropriate this to town with going to live out or not there with the met life and fit to live in and view just has to abandon it kinda likes to repeat the 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 point of it making facts 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 expecting to get used to it a little bit. but of course yes, daily and afraid what's been, what did was due to the town and the town nearby. also while most one 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. okay. one of them is volcano hunter, bureau and 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 degree, quick data, so that he won't miss the next spectacular russian. this a waiting game. it's a waiting game. uh. is it gonna rock this is not gonna work. 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 rough 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 ropes and a happens right now. 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 green 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 of inventory because this is literally the only the only time of the day where you see everybody competing. you're playing basketball,

after all this situation at home. it's kind of crazy. so many people traumatize, so many people there can't even think about this is so afraid of ok. no. i'm confused, and i hope that everybody makes you turn the amazing . this is what we missed the most of 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, it's 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 the quinn's $77.00 to $69.00 or the i'm just super happy. and so the problem with teams is i don't know how to describe feeling like just playing sports 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

a few days after going to fix victory on the court. the ground explodes again without any warning the erupt and lasts for weeks and forms a permanent crater. the town is spared the lava for now. but even so, the iceland, a government offers residents to bind 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 green, civic life away from scientific despite researchers wary outlooks, brenda's hasn't given up hope for her hometown. i political hope sled. i don't know. went but at some point i would have helped rebuild it. the saving planning which i'll do is it is spreading around the cities, metropolitan areas and presents of stress. the

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