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Warpy

(111,249 posts) Tue May 18, 2021, 01:23 PM May 2021

Progress of wall to block lava in Iceland

The main thing they want to preserve is the fiber optic infrastructure. I think its lifespan will be measured in days. Lava is hot and heavy as hell and will just snowplow that rubble "wall" ahead of it.

There is an alternate highway that just about triples the trip from Gri9ndavik, the main town, to Reykjavik that is currently in no danger.

Well, until one of the systems to the west becomes active, and it will, although most seismic activity has been to the northeast of the current eruption.