Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption
The Quanta Podcast
Quanta Magazine
4.7 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Fire Water” by Saidbysed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quantum Magazine's podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Each episode, we bring you stories about developments in science and mathematics. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Susan Vallett. |
| 0:13.0 | After 800 years of slumber, Iceland's Rakhine-S peninsula has entered a new volcanic era, |
| 0:19.0 | with eruptions causing evacuations. So scientists are using |
| 0:23.1 | the planet's jitters and whispers to decode the movements of the volcanic underground |
| 0:28.5 | and hope to predict the timing and location of future eruptions. That's next. |
| 0:35.9 | It's season three of the joy of why, and I still have a lot of questions. |
| 0:40.6 | Like, what is this thing we call time? |
| 0:43.1 | Why does altruism exist? |
| 0:44.7 | And where is Jan 11? |
| 0:46.5 | I'm here. |
| 0:47.3 | Astrophysicist and co-host. |
| 0:48.9 | Ready for anything. |
| 0:50.0 | That's right. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm bringing in the A team. |
| 0:52.3 | So brace yourselves. |
| 0:53.7 | Get ready to learn. I'm Jan 11. I team. So brace yourselves. Get ready to learn. |
| 0:54.9 | I'm Janelle Levin. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm Steve Strogatz. |
| 0:57.4 | And this is Quantum Magazine's podcast, The Joy of Why. |
| 1:01.5 | New episodes drop every other Thursday. |
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