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Unfortunately the second fissure was inside of the defensive berm, allowing the lava to burn the homes. The yellow lines are protective berms. The red lines (and the black) are where the fissures are. The berms did help some no doubt.Also, the city has 'defensive berms' that are supposed to prevent lava flows from reaching the town... they may have worked to limit the damage... at least for now... but not prevent it.
-Bear
There's seismic data to suggest that magma is opening up horizontal channels under ground, which are going under Grindavik. This opens the possibility that a fissure could open anywhere within the town. It's not a good situation at all for the town.
Benedikt Halldórsson of the Icelandic Meteorological Office, says that scientists are now going over measurements and interpreting them, getting news about the extent of the lava and mapping its thickness. "The main thought now is how far the magma flow went, it's pretty clear that it went under the town itself."
One poor gentleman fell into a crevasse that he was trying to repair in Grindavik on January 11th. He has not been found. The ground seems to have swallowed him up. They are still searching for him.
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