Eyrarbakki: Christmas lights on today!

The Christmas tree was lit in the Christmas village in Eyrarbakki at 6pm tonight. Christmas songs were played and carols were sung. The first Santa's elfs of this Christmas were seen hanging around the and made everyone feel happy. When asked, they said their names were Lightstaring and Branchesfeeler There was a lot about parents and children. 

Grindavík is now a ghost town.

The residents of Grindavík, who all had to leave town, have not been allowed to return home, even though earthquakes have almost stopped and there have been no volcanic eruptions. 

 Many houses in the town are unusable and much of the infrastructure is damaged. The houses that are intact are worthless as the town is in a defined danger zone. 

 Many of the residents are therefore left with expensive mortgages but worthless property.

Uptate🚨: An eruption can erupt any time from now.

Models show that the extent of the magma tunnel in Reykjanes is significant and magma is approaching the surface.  The corridor extends from Kálfellsheiði in the north and runs just west of Grindavík town and into the sea in a southwesterly direction.  The magma tunnel is about 15 km long and the magma lies at a depth of about 800 m where it is shallowest.  It should be noted that the models are based on satellite data that is about 12 hours old, so it must be assumed that the magma has moved closer to the surface than 800 m.  Based on this, it can be concluded that there is a significant chance that magma will manage to break its way to the surface.  There is also an increased chance that magma can emerge on the ocean floor.

Source: Meteorological Office of Iceland.

Reykjanes: Eruption not started but big earthquakes.

Around 800 earthquakes have been recorded in the seismic zone in Reykjanes since midnight. The seismic activity has only decreased in the last few hours, which is still high. The most seismic activity in the last few hours has been at the southwest end of the tunnel near Grindavík, which was formed last night and runs under the town. Eruption not started yet.

🚨State of emergency Reykjanes Iceland

An order has been given to immediately leave the town of Grindavík, which is a short distance from the KEF international airport in Iceland, due to the high risk of a major volcanic eruption, but massive earthquakes are currently ongoing which have destroyed the main roads out of the town. Almost 4000 people live in the town. Everyone should be gone in 3 hours.

Order to leave!

 The Icelandic Civil Defense has decided to evacuate Grindavík town. Everyone is told to leave the town immediately because of the expected big eruption in the area in a little while.

An eruption will occur in a few hours

People have started to leave the earthquake zone despite the recommendation of the National Defense that people stay at home. Heavy traffic on highways from the main epicenter. Relief centers have been opened in neighboring towns. A major eruption is expected in a few hours. A guard ship is on its way to the danger zone

Difficult situation in earthquakes

Earthquake activity has increased significantly in the last few hours and the Civil Defense has declared a danger zone. The whole of the south is trembling and the roads are torn apart. People asked to stay at home and not to leave the earthquake zone until an official order comes. A fire has broken out in the power plant. Tremors are now at most 5.6 on the scale.

Earthquake in Iceland 5.2M

An earthquake was detected in Eyrarbakki, its source is near the town of Grindavík 50 km away, but there have been intensifying earthquakes in recent days. A powerful eruption is expected there very soon and people have been asked to stay at home, until the Civil Defense gives an order leave the town. There are important power plants in the area that are at serious risk of damage. The nearby tourist paradise Blue Lagoon has been temporarily closed. The last quake was a 5.2 Magnetue.

A monster was seen on Eyrarbakki - History

On November 19, 1594, there was a great storm, and the sources say: the river Hvítá dried up in two places near a farm called Áhraun in Skeiða-hreppi and in Flóa-hreppi to the east of the country, near the farm Brúnastaður, almost all over.  There, we walked with dry feet to one of the islets, which was previously impassable, and from there we took stilts as a sign.  People were surprised at this, that the two sections should dry up, because the river was seen as a sea elsewhere with a storm.  In these same storms the surf was terrible.  A monster was then seen on Eyrarbakki, in the neighborhood of Háeyri and the neighborhood of Skúmsstaðir;  it was four-legged and tall-legged, skin like that of a seal, had either a dog's head or a hare's head, but ears as big as socks they lay on the back;  the trunk was like a foal's body and somewhat shorter, there was a white lining around it at the sides, but it was gray or something like gray-brown in front;  a turnip was long, a knob like a lion's tail at the end, and swift as a dog;  seen in the evening.  – The description of the monster fits well with a donkey or a mule, but where did the creature come from?  It is likely that a ship was wrecked in this weather and that this animal was among the ship's cargo and made it safely to land.

Tragedy at sea - Historical

 

Two Faroese schooners, which were fishing off the coast, perished in a storm on March 7, 1934 with a total of 43 men. They were the schooners "Neptun" from Vestmanhavn and "Nolsoy" from Thorshavn. On May 31st of that year, a body washed up at Stóra-Hraun on Eyrarbakki and it was believed that it was the mate of the cutter "Nolsoy". The body was unrecognizable when it was found, but an engagement ring, which happened to be on the dead man's finger, was sent to the Faroe Islands and found. The deceased's name was Bernhard Henriksen and she was from Sandvág in the Faroe Islands. On May 21, 1936, a memorial came with m/s. "Queen Alexandrine", who was sent by the Faroe Islands and was on his way, but the body was buried in Eyrarbakka cemetery and was carefully prepared for the funeral as much as possible. A total of 20 people died with "Nolsoy", many brothers and fathers, and their names are all written on the stone, and the following message on its base:

 May we still be sad

 dear friends farewell

 Good morning happy

 tó in the sky of poetry shall.

 In addition to the Faroese, the then Danish ambassador, Fontenay and consul Jens Zimsen, played a part in bringing the monument here, and Zimsen both took care of the transport to the east and saw to it that it was placed on Bernhard Henriksen's grave and was finished in Eyrarbakka cemetery on June 3, 1936.

 In addition to Bernhard, Nolsoy's cutter J. Henriksen, H.D. Hansen, V. Hansen, E. Hansen, M.Hansen, A.  Danberg, J. Olsen, M. Petersen, P. Poulsen, J.P. Petersen, M. Johansen, H. Leidesgaard, U.A. Johansen, M. Poulsen, J.G. Petersen, O.J. Jakobsen.

 Source: Morgunbl.138 tbl 1934. Excerpt from the story of Mykines

 http://heima.olivant.fo/~mykines/mykkrofo.htm Ægir 1936.

The Women in Eyrarbakki

Next week the book "Konurnar á Eyrarbakka" (Women in the village) by Jónína Óskarsdóttir, whose ancestry can be traced back to Eyrarbakki, but her grandfather was captain Guðfinnur Þórarinsson from Eyri, who perished with Sæfar along with a crew of seven in the sealing at Eyrarbakki 5  April 1927. Her grandmother was Rannveig Jónsdóttir, a housewife and worker from Litla Háeyri in Eyrarbakki.

 The book Konunnar á Eyrarbakki is a long awaited book.

https://eyrarbakkakonur.com/ 

The story of potato farming in Eyrarbakki

 In 1870, potatoes were grown in two gardens on Eyrarbakki. Gísli Jónsson is considered to be a pioneer in potato cultivation in the village. Sveinn Sveinsson in Hausthúsum is considered the first to use kelp as fertilizer, which proved to be very successful. Bergsteinn Sveinsson in Brenna was the first to start large-scale potato farming in the 20th century, and many others followed suit. For quite a few years, Eyrarbakki was the largest potato producer in Iceland.

 More: http://eyrbekkingur.blogspot.com/2011/03/eyrarbakka-annall.html?m=1