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Again?!
Yup, again. Also apparently the barriers they were building haven't worked. The lava is currently 450m away from the nearest houses.
Edit: Houses have been on fire for the last hour or two.
Based on videos from one of the major lava-themed entertainment venues who has been posting updates for two months, the "barriers" for Grindavik were barely started, with work only beginning some time after January 4th or 5th. The primary focus of the public work was in building the barriers to protect the regional power plant to the east of the fissures (and hot springs resort area just east and north the power plant). IIRC, those barriers took a month to construct.
The subsurface dam/inclusion runs pretty much directly under Grindavik, so if an active eruption opens along the southern edge of the magma inclusion there will be no way to prevent damage to those houses adjacent.
Disc: I'm neither a seismologist nor a volcanologist, but I've seen Journey to the Center of the Earth. Oh, and I was in Grindavik in October.
Yeah there was a new fissure near to the houses, now a few of them have started burning. However it's kind of funky that the greenhouse closest to the big fissure is still perfectly fine (well maybe not perfectly, I imagine they have stuff inside they needs to be kept cool) while the main lava flow from the big fissure has gone right by them.
These are the live streams that I've been following:
There was also a live stream from an American geologist, that was kind of cool as he had a drone camera for a while. It was some funky set up where he was connected via Starlink to watch, but also the pilot was connected (maybe also via Starlink) from somewhere closer. He kept giving instructions to the pilot to try and get different views. He had some properly good close up shots of the new fissure near the houses as it was developing, however the stream stopped a while before the houses caught fire.
The other non-live set of videos I saw was from an Icelandic lady called Silki, she had some good bits highlighting the workers trying to save their equipment like daredevils, literally only 20m or so away from the flow. Even now, they're still nearby watching, you can see their trucks on the live streams. She's still putting videos out and I expect will continue updating.