Iceland Builds Wall To Try To Stop Lava Before Volcano Erupts | Insider News

Iceland is building a wall to try to divert lava before the Fagradalsfjal volcano erupts. Thousands were evacuated ahead of the eruption.
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[@juliepeterson6639]

Geez, even if it didn’t blow right away everyone is away from home until it does. I am praying for everyone dealing with this volcano. Love you all, be safe always.

[@user-gb9js6cp6v]

To whom do you pray?

[@jabe3780]

Is there a volcano god? Is there a god in charge of the lava and you're going to try to change her mind? What kind of sorcery is involved with lava manipulation? Can you send magic messages to a god that delivers food to starving children? Is this god in charge of 5,000+ dead children in Gaza?

[@keatonterry]

The volcano threatening Grindavík and Blue Lagoon isn’t Fagradalsfjall, it’s actually the Reykjanes volcano

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

You are correct that it isn't the Fagradalsfyll area being affected here, which is to the east of this region. But it is also not the Reykjanes 'volcano' either imo after watching videos on this subject for weeks. This magma intrusion is in the Svartsengi volcanic field. There is no particular volcano associated with this magma intrusion which should be obvious given how much it has been moving around. The Reykjanes volcanic field is further to the west of where the uplift and earthquakes are occuring.

[@stonew1927]

We dealt with that here on the Big Island of Hawaii 5 years ago. Entire neighborhood wiped out. Over 700 homes across a larger area. Sorry for the residents of Iceland.

[@scootermom1791]

How terrible! Was that area built on top of a dormant volcano or something? How did that happen?

[@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure]

​@@scootermom1791these islands are basically created by volcanoes if that is your question

[@haveaseatplease]

Thank you to all the hard working people at Insider News for the quality reporting.

[@Unknown_Revolver]

They literally buy all this footage from other journalists and add some text and music over the videos

[@hardworker645]

​@@Unknown_Revolverstill better than your or mine reports about events happening worldwide 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure]

​@hardworker645 thats very true. The reporting we get always has some sort of political bias tied to it. Which isnt reporting, thats gaslighting activism being portrayed as truth.

[@EuroWarsOrg]

Clickbait - where is the wall the headline refers to?

[@mattmccallum2007]

Walls work

[@puttentanesame6687]

HOLY CRAP. All of our little problems fall away WHEN YOU'RE DIVERTING FREAK'N LAVA, don't they?

[@infernaldaedra]

Hardly. These people chose to live on a volcano. Stuff doesn't even move that fast. Oh no my volcano house burned down. 😢 Gimme a break living anywhere these days is expensive.

[@puttentanesame6687]

@@infernaldaedra Spoke the Volcano-whisperer...give US a break, pumice brain.

[@petert3355]

The thing is, the wall only works, "maybe", if it is between the power plant and where the lava eventually emerges. Murphy's Law is a thing. I sure hope it don't bite in this case.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

That's just the way life is sometimes. We can make preparations for a potential eruption to occur in one place, but then it occurs in another. At this point this is their best option when in this uncertain situation and the best they can do is gamble that this is the right one.

[@silviebreber1523]

So sad. Please be safe.

[@infernaldaedra]

Yeah its how the earth works so sad

[@Torrque]

Yep, nothing sad about it. Nature just doing it’s thing… indifferent.

[@onyi4180]

If this normally happens in Nigeria, those monsters called leaders will rather embezzle the funds meant for the project and let it kill us! Kudos to the Iceland authorities...

[@RhondaBAZ]

Nature always wins..prayers to you all..

[@jabe3780]

This is no time for silliness.

[@denniss5512]

Got to love a country where all the offical emergency vehicals look like they have lift kits and monster tires.

[@johnbrown4568]

So let me get this right. Walls work...correct?

[@richardwarfordjr.5622]

Mother nature never rest

[@EthanFarang]

They make it seem like they thought it would just go “nah, I don’t wanna make lava anymore, it’ll inconvenience humans” 😂

[@xxedgecumberveggietaleslma9874]

One love from CA ❤️ hope everyone dealing with this is okay and living somewhat good outside of their homes.

[@infernaldaedra]

Which CA lmao

[@letsclimb5828]

Yes Cameroon stands with you

[@The_DC_Kid]

@@infernaldaedra Inappropriate. Your reply seems typically like one of the common dunces who take a swipe at California every chance they get. I bet you don't realize MILLIONS of "Extreme MAGA Republicans" live here LMFAO.

[@a00r]

I've been to Iceland twice and seeing this hits different 😭

[@ketajackson4941]

That is smart! So happy you guys can think ahead

[@morganbailey89]

Its just mother nature doing what she do best..

[@MarkAMMarrk]

Thank God they have time to do something. Praying for Iceland!

[@lorrainelaraway6100]

Have prayed the wall will be built before the lava hits. Hugs and peace from America to Iceland. We do care

[@vanlalthlanarenthleirenthl2247]

This is very sad😢 my condolences to all who lost their home and community where they are born and raised 😢😢

[@infernaldaedra]

Yeah right imagine being born on a volcano and not seeing any lava ever

[@ripples07able]

Can’t get my head around how they will fix the cracks.

[@hamzarorick4875]

They will hire some chinese crack heads and fix it cheap

[@o2bnob]

I was wondering the same thing, 3 feet high difference! Wow

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

It would probably amount to tearing the roads on both sides and fixing the underlying pipelines then repaving which would inevitably result in a low sloped road in that area.

[@guildrich]

*_"Iceland Builds Wall To Try To Stop Lava Before Volcano Erupts"_* Yeah, because that worked SO well last time. lol

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Actually it did work well against an encroaching lava flow in the Fagradalsfyll eruption in 2021.

[@laurencaulton103]

Is that like raking the forest?

[@g.k.1669]

Despite everything...the geothermal power plant idea is very cool. Hope that it stays intact for them along with their homes.

[@JaRule6]

Yeah, I'll stay in New England ❤

[@jamesgalbraith1742]

Cool❤❤

[@pottywotty100]

Dig a big hole instead

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

What happens when the hole is filled up?? Besides this part of Iceland like most of Iceland is covered with previous lava flows that are rock hard and many meters thick!!

[@lesliel.6260]

At least they have warning and can save lives

[@user-gb9js6cp6v]

Volcano 🌋 Builds Iceland 😅 Iceland builds wall 🧱 😅 Volcano Spews Magma and Lava 😅

[@FishtownRec]

Lol did they literally call Tommy Lee Jones and ask him!

[@larrylem3582]

More info on the size and location of the walls with respect to the volcano and a topographical map would have been informative.

[@user-gs6fq1jq8y]

Maybe they should use the lava flows to make steel and iron .. a big foundry..

[@EperogiLimousine]

Lava doesn’t have mineable iron in it. It’s basalt

[@DaRay814]

If a wall can't stop people, why in the hell do you think it'll stop lava?

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

😅😂. Well that is sure rich in sarcasm?!

[@paddy9738]

All pyroclastic flows are welcome here 😍

[@EperogiLimousine]

Not Andesite

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Yes the lava composition which is basalt doesn't allow for the formation of enough ash to form Pyroclastic flows. None occured in any of the previous Fagradalsfyll eruptions 2021 - this year.

[@allandill2033]

"It can be months until residents go home" Nah. Id be good.

[@alazarano2]

Their floating on a lava iceberg!

[@johnlackey1244]

I guess they watched the movie “Volcano”. Hollywood is sooo wise and visionary.

[@stockrebel]

Lords judgement is upon us 🙌

[@jaewok5G]

"we've built a wall of rocks to stop the river of liquid rocks" … almost a good idea

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

In the first place a lava flow is hardly a river of rocks when the whole lava flow is molten rock! And second it isn't about stopping a river of rocks, but rather to divert that lava flow which has been done before. In a barrier created against a lava flow in the Fagradalsfyll eruption in 2021'helped to slow a lava flow.

[@jaewok5G]

@michaeldeierhoi4096 I did say 'river of _liquid_ rocks' . the '21 eruption was some distance away, but this effusion is likely to be close to if not right in town. there's too much variables but the barriers did so little to help it could be argued to be a waste of resources unless they could be truly focused like a channel similar to the Los Angeles river giving the flow an obvious path of least resistance. for a barrier to have an effect it would have to withstand not only the heat but the momentum energy of the flow. imagine it as flow waters only much more dense, like a bulldozer pushes through but also heating more rock underneath it as it moves. if the barrier withstands the initial impact, the flow will stack up an 'lean' on it. the flow then might push it over or flow over the top or melt and incorporate it. to stop the flow, the mass of the barrier would have to draw enough heat from the mass of lava to bring the temperature down thousands of degrees. usually it takes canyon walls or oceans of water to do that after the feed of lava stops. this is how mountains and islands are created in a day, nature will not be denied by shifting around even a few thousand cubic meters of dirt. we are specks of dust, look at a satellite view and you can see the fissures and calderas but the entire urban developments are a hazy patch, what we do, geotectonics hardly notices.

[@StrielokPLsz]

@@jaewok5G they don't want stop river of liquid rocks with a dam but do divert it...with wall of rocks, its not perfect but good enough to divert flow of molten rocks, better to divert it in to field few meters away than let it flow through buildings

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@jaewok5G You seem to think you know better than the people of Iceland who are trained to deal with the threat posed by volcanic eruptions so why don't you fly over there and tell them how it's done. Then come back and write a long rambling story about how you saved the country of Iceland! How mother will probably say, "Oh that's nice dear"!! 😅😂

[@jaewok5G]

​@@michaeldeierhoi4096 before the recent volcanic activity, Iceland's last eruption was 800 years ago. every eruption is unique. I accept that someone knows more than I o about any subject, but I too have knowledge an experience that are unique to me. if you had understood my comment, it was regarding the _futility_ of resisting the power of a volcanic eruption. everyone has been evacuated and ha a chance to return for valuable items. there's now a geological crease through the town floating on magma. are sane people really going to rebuild right there even if the lava flow goes around their home? what I on't know about the specific geology of Iceland, I make up for in my experience with bureaucrats an they hate to be seen as doing nothing and so would rather be doing something useless to be perceived as leading. if they were really so insightful to volcanism, they would've learned to pointlessness of temporary burns to control lava from last time an started on more substantial 'lava runoff canals' between the town and the volcano. but even that wouldn't help because this seismic event is straight through the middle of town. the most effective course of action for anyone living on an active volcano is prayer, and I mean that unironically.

[@rbur394]

I'm not an expert but if ur trying to divert it wouldn't a trench be better with a retaining wall behind it ? Like you would divert runoff (water)

[@alvaroq2024]

There’s no time for that unfortunately.

[@speedy01247]

Easier to put up a wall then dig a worthwhile trench. (Like it depends on the sizes like a 1 foot trench would be pretty easy but a 10 foot trench would be harder then a 10 foot wall, especially since the wall only needs to be a foot or so thick at most.

[@rbur394]

@@speedy01247 not necessarily , if you dug a 5ft deep by 3 ft wide trench that would give you the materials to build the wall of equal dimensions . All without having to use trucks to haul dirt in saving time and fuel.

[@The_DC_Kid]

With volcanically active Iceland being so dependant upon Thermal Energy to drive their Electricity production it seems short-sighted of them to build the power plant where they did. It's very much like Japan, an historic target of Tsunamis, building a Nuclear Reactor very near and not far enough above the ocean. It seems to me Iceland's protective wall to divert lava flow would need to be a half-mile tall. But good luck to them, however they try to divert it.

[@pattieprophet7987]

WOW 😢 i am s sorry 😢💔

[@Idgjy]

When I was in my 20s, my USN husband was stationed in Keflavik, Iceland; our first son was born in a WW II Quonset hut on the US Naval Air Base. We traveled around Iceland, enjoying stops in many cities - often visiting Grindavik. While the wind could be fierce at time making the chill factor a bit harsh, I enjoyed living there and have maintained a few Icelandic friendships. Unfortunately, the country is all volcano and some blow every year. I took my son back to Iceland after he graduated from college. The people were kind and pleasant and the country was pretty. My thoughts and prayers are with all the country at this time. ❤❤

[@davidredfern836]

Where is the wall ??

[@Trouble-maker-sb8cu]

Don’t worry it will come to u

[@kayakMike1000]

Dude. Its sad, but then you can say.... Volcano got my house, but I survived. That's at least a few million badass points as far as I am aware.

[@RighteousJ]

A wall? It's almost like walls work, or something.

[@estinamir9099]

May be you could use ice, when lava hits it the solids should form.

[@frankwenos641]

Would be very good if the scientist could create a machine that sends signals electrinity to draw the lava towards the signals. Because in the lava there is iron.

[@EperogiLimousine]

Not possible at the moment.

[@alc5792]

Iceland knew they were volcanic for ever hence the free power. Why should they be surprised?

[@bbt305]

I thought the article was about a wall. I didnt see anything

[@aleuttrel2260]

You have to realize if you live there, you are not living on an island, you are living on a volcano

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Gee, I wonder if the people of Iceland ever thought of that!? Hmmm that's a tough one! 🙄

[@aleuttrel2260]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 most people that do not live there don't even think about it...

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@aleuttrel2260 The town of Grindavik is not on a volcano. The town was established decades ago on old lava flows like the rest of Iceland. And it was only in the last month that a magma intrusion appeared, but not near Grindavik at first. Initially the magma intrusion started about ten miles to the north near the Blue Lagoon and the power plant before eventually moving south. This intrusion under the town caused uplift, earthquakes and fissures to open up which meant a possible eruption could occur there. The longer it is delayed now not erupting the less likely it is to happen. There now I fixed your misunderstanding for you. Course that was the nutshell version. The more detailed version would be 1000 words or more.

[@aleuttrel2260]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 I think you have a misunderstanding of what a volcano is... If you have magma under you, it's because you are on top of a volcano...

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@aleuttrel2260 Are you making up your definition of what a volcano is because you are wrong. A magma intrusion does not count as an eruption since it has not erupted. Though I understand you are making some effort to save face it won't work. Below is the definition of a volcano from the Oxford Dictionary. You're welcome!! "A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust".

[@ookammi]

tell me tommy lee jones is there helping

[@Ridesmule]

Sorry for this trouble for Iceland. If it isn’t hurricanes or forest fires it’s volcanic eruptions. The main thing is to stay safe and this will pass.

[@SwapPartLLC]

And still, they try to tell us that walls don't work.

[@HalifaxComputersRepair]

maybe they could harvest the lava heat turn into free electricity lol

[@kelvagills870]

It's not funny at all

[@G2Bryce]

@@kelvagills870 "HalifaxComputersRepair" -- it's just some loser computer repair guy who couldn't be an actual engineer so they're bitter. Don't pay attention to them, they're not worth thinking about.

[@ooze1982]

Can a wall really stop or slow down lava? Isn't it just molten rocks meeting other rocks? I'm not sure how this plan would work

[@infernaldaedra]

Yes it can and probably will its very overblown because they want AID aka Free money.

[@blackholeentry3489]

While I may not be able to totally avoid commercials, with my mute button, I sure as Hell don't have to listen to them.

[@elianeeliane3388]

Cadê a Greta T.?????? Se cuidem, irlandeses!

[@JakeSmith-to5pw]

There no way wall going stop lava flows come though might buy time for Iceland to evacuate get to safety

[@trm4life]

They'll be lucky if there are homes to go back to! 😢

[@hot_vampire01]

Excited

[@AnastasiaBvrhwsn]

Fire & Ice land!

[@reson8]

I think i know a SONG about that...

[@carole4119]

Why build walls dont understand....its underground and on top ???

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Isn't it obvious?? The idea is build a barrier to prevent lava from encroaching toward the power plant! You do understand that lava would erupt from underground right. One it erupts it flows in the easiest direction down hill.

[@reson8]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 What barrier stops lava?

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@reson8 It isn't about stopping the lava flow, but diverting it.

[@reson8]

@michaeldeierhoi4096 I would like to know what materials are capable of resisting the intense heat and pressure of a lava flow for long enough to change it's course, and if enough of those materials would make it to Iceland in time to be usable.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@reson8 There are vast quantities of basalt available in Iceland which is primarily the rock used to build barriers as they are doing around Blue Lagoon and the power plant. Basalt can withstand the heat from the lava because the lava would immediately start to cool when making contact. And a thick barrier of several meters would be effective against a lava flow primarily in diverting the flow. It depends of course which way a lava flow approaches a barrier. Even a direct impact by lava in a barrier would cause the lava to spread out laterally at first. At least slowing the lava flow down would allow authorities time to raise a barrier level. Iceland has more experience handling lava flows than just about any other country.

[@tasteslikepennies2549]

The good old days when walls were just for foreigners

[@BrandonWallace-og4vy]

Ohh no, I have a shapeable molten material literally oozing at me! What shall I do?

[@pamelah6431]

Your source is Al Jazeera?! For real?! 🤨

[@JohnnyBeitia]

"PANAMÁ RELOCA TION TOURS! WITH JACKIE!!😊🙋👍❤️ 👈"

[@donwayne1357]

Tear down that wall! Walls are rayciss!!

[@reson8]

I wonder how many pipelines were hurt in the production of this video. Like, it's an actively volcanic island- how can you possibly complain when it erupts when you choose to live there?

[@jkfdkjjd]

More like "volcanoland"

[@mudpuddle8805]

I live next to a volcano, but it's okay, ive built a wall...

[@UnearthCreations]

Does a story on the wall but doesn't show the wall. But a one sec clip of construction equipment. >.> Journalism.

[@redmanlaw0002]

There was a movie called Volcano that tried to do this.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Wow. Now there's a good resource to consider. Just take some Hollywood movie with exaggerated effects and see how a barrier made a difference against a lava flow in that case. 🤔

[@rosnenynatzir6377]

Just get go away from the vulcanion errupted even a small one 😢🎉

[@historygeek723]

Why is there a volcano in Iceland

[@user-qt8uz6yv3b]

Oh nowrealized that you are not suppose to build around a volcano kman

[@G33Anubis]

This might sound far fetched but if we were to make a ball of ice that could go into the middle of these valcanoes and slowly erupt in the belly im sure that we cna prevent alot of valcoanic eruptions its just a suggestion maybe like a ball thats metal on the outside and full of dry ice in the middle does it sound crazy?

[@johnb9825]

Well that was short and uninformative.

[@richardp6461]

And Mexico is going to pay for it??👀........ Sorry I couldn't help myself.

[@Si_Kentul]

It is a vulcanic island, why they live there ?

[@Oneaphelion]

at least the cops are letting them out......maui much?

[@user-rz2de1zl2v]

They could used diamond.

[@presidentpotato222]

I saw this movie It didn’t end well

[@michaeljohnson5365]

Trump builds walls

[@jefferyrightmire9520]

Walls work, weather it be Texas southern border, California, estates in Martha's Vinyard, or Iceland---

[@bluelava4282]

That’s not gonna work

[@johnholmes102]

This will happen when you build on a volcano. 😅😅😅

[@bigkahuna1889]

Almost impossible to stop a volcanic eruption. Hawaii already tried Bulldozing and bombing eruptions with no success. A nuclear bomb might possibly do something but would also make an area unlivable.

[@jabe3780]

We did it before. It can work.

[@user-bx9nz4if1u]

Is Mexico paying for this wall?

[@DustinMercer]

"....and in case you missed 'The Shining' we've included the soundtrack in this clip at no extra cost!"

[@tonyshaw7420]

Sad, but it's just a matter of time. 💔

[@guyfierro1721]

End of the world

[@exz1tar]

Bet many women are out there building walls. They better go on a strike again 😂😂😂

[@jakhamar55]

Hate to be blunt but you cant stop a volcano.

[@BitSmythe]

*DON’T NEED THE PORN MUSIC!*

[@JohnnyBeitia]

" 5 REASONS TO GET PANAMÁ RESIDENCY!!😊🙋👍❤️👈"

[@addams40]

I like how Father God's signs and wonders are passed off as 'seismic activity'