(21 Dec 2023)
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Grindavik, Iceland – 21 December 2023
1. Drone footage - Panoramic view of the town with the black new lava far in the background
2. Drone footage - Zoomed shot of the lava field and steaming new craters
3. Drone footage - Various of the now inactive eruptive fissure and steaming craters
4. Journalist interviewing Grindavik residents and scientist at news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ingibergur Thor Olafarson, Grindavik resident and president of Grindavik Basketball Team:
“It’s maybe easier for me to live in Reykjavik now and have my life there, but still it doesn’t feel like home. I have a life in Grindavik, I have big responsibility of keeping the club running and kinda try to glue the town together.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Magnus Tumi Gudmunsson, Geophysicist at the University of Iceland:
“It’s not being possible to map the lava because of the weather, but it is something like 3.7 square kilometers, it’s possibly 5 to 10 meters thick, probably near the thinner value, so it’s possibly something like 20 million cubic meters (in volume).”
7. Various of Magnus Tumi Gudmunsson giving presentation
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Magnus Tumi Gudmunsson, Geophysicist at the University of Iceland:
"Magma is coming from deep and it’s accumulating under Svartsengi, there are the tectonic forces pulling the crust apart, and this is the brittle part of the crust which is much stronger and this is the ductile which is not nearly as strong, so this is where most of the stress has built up. What has been happening on this event is that the stress that has built up over centuries now has been released by ripping the crust apart. That opens a pathway for the magma that’s coming from below to the surface. This is the dyke (magma intrusion) that mostly formed, except this top part, on the 10th of November, and now on the 18th of December we had this event where magma reached the surface and we had this very quick and powerful eruption, short lived and the lava formed."
9. Various of Ingibergur Thor Olafarson being interviewed
10. Shot from the car, on the way to Ingibergur Thor Olafarson's house
11. Visit to Ingibergur house in Grindavik with SOUNDBITES (English) Ingibergur Thor Olafarson:
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STORYLINE:
An eruption of an Icelandic volcano which began on 18. December has now stopped completely, and residents are beginning to return to the town of Grtindavik.
Scientists and community leaders held a news conference on Thursday morning, and where it was explained that the eruption spread across an area of 3.7 square kilometers.
The evacuation of Grindavik came after weeks of earthquakes which led to cracks and openings in the earth close to Sýlingarfell, a small mountain north of Grindavík.
The town of 3,800 is on the Reykjanes Peninsula, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of the capital, Reykjavik.
The eruptive fissure was 3.5 to 4km km long, pouring lava fountains all along its length.
The eruption is significantly larger than the previous three occurred on Fagradalsfjall in the last couple of years.
It has been estimated a flow rate of 100-200 cubic meters per second during the first few hours, way higher than the previous eruptions.
AP video by Marco DiMarco
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