Loading ...I have experience living on a volcano, but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near that crack in Iceland. That volcano is dangerously explosive. Reminds me of the crack that appeared in Leilani Estates just five miles away from me in 2018. It was soon spewing lava. Here, the definition of “Lava Zone 1” is exactly: ‘May erupt at any time’. The area has craters from 1955 and 1960. I can still see the tearful homeowner on TV after her backyard broke open and lava consumed her home. “Well we knew it was Lava Zone 1, but we never thought THIS would happen”, she sobbed. Cognitive dissonance at it’s finest!
Hawaii is a shield volcano that is relatively tame and overflows from time to time. Iceland, on the other hand, is a fiercely explosive subduction volcano at the juncture of major crustal faults. And it looks ready to blow… hard.