Thrainn Kolbeinsson, photographer, on the impending volcanic threat in Iceland

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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For the past couple of weeks, Iceland has been shaking with earthquakes as an underground river of magma moves toward the surface. Over the weekend, more than 800 earthquakes were detected in 14 hours in the Reykjanes Peninsula in the southwest of the country, and nearly 4,000 people were evacuated from the small town of Grindavík. One of the people who has had a front-row seat to these events is Thrainn Kolbeinsson, a photographer who Payson worked with on both of his island crossing films. ...

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0:00.0	Around midnight, they see this magma tunnel forming just directly under Grintadik.
0:07.5	And that line is just going through the town.
0:11.2	So around midnight, everybody's just evacuated super quickly.
0:16.5	They just go house to house and get everybody out of the town.
0:20.5	But observing the people of
0:23.3	Grinta, like, it's, I believe that, like, people have been living in Iceland for over a thousand
0:29.2	years. And we have experienced, like, just so much hardship. And I really think that it, it just
0:34.4	creates a certain type of people. And I don't think that kind of leaves the genes, even though like we've had like a generation of two where things have been pretty nice.
0:45.3	It's showtime everybody.
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1:00.8	Life moves pretty fast.
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