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Iceland Geology #5 - 20 Years After The Mega Disaster in Vestmannaeyjar

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Click on CC for subtitles in English but this is a part of documentary that was made 20 years after the Vestmannaeyjar eruption in 1973 and describes how the inhabitants worked their way from the shock and rebuilt the island. There is lots of footage on Youtube that covers this issue but only partially available in English so I'm hoping that this will provide some puzzles into the whole picture for those who share my interest in mega disasters.

The population in Vestmannaeyjar is however still less than before the eruption or around 4500 but over 5000 people lived there in 1973. The tourist business is blooming but they excavated some houses from the lava and show now how cruelly nature treated the homes of so many islanders.

http://eldheimar.is/en/

I hope you enjoy this short lesson in the history of Iceland and urge you to subscribe since it's my plan to keep on translating remarkable local footage that has never been available before. I'm also using my channel go over geological unrest as it happens, and unique footage as things happen at any given time.
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