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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class. It's a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey y'all, I'm Eves and Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: San History Class, a podcast where we rip out a

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Speaker 1: page from the history books every single day. Today's June.

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Speaker 1: The day was June eight three, a volcanic fissure in

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Speaker 1: Iceland called Lacki began erupting. The eruption, also known as

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Speaker 1: the Scofftow Fires, lasted eight months. Lak Gigar or Lacky's,

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Speaker 1: part of a volcanic system in the southeastern part of Iceland.

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Speaker 1: Another nearby volcano, Greenswaten, was erupting at the same time

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Speaker 1: as the Lackey fissure. At the time of the eruption,

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Speaker 1: the population of Iceland was at about fifty thousand. Weeks

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Speaker 1: before the eruption began, people in the area felled earthquakes.

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Speaker 1: On June sev eight three, black a gigar began erupting

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Speaker 1: when lava began pouring out of more than one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty volcanic craters. The eruption consisted of ten pulses

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Speaker 1: of activity, and each pulse had similar phases. There were earthquakes,

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Speaker 1: then a new fissure, then a short explosive eruption, then

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Speaker 1: violent explosions with the high rate of magma discharge, then

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Speaker 1: low level eruptions with lava flows. A priest named Yone

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Speaker 1: Staining Groomson described the eruption saying, in part quote, first

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Speaker 1: the ground swelled up with tremendous howling, then suddenly a

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Speaker 1: cry shattered it into pieces. Volcanic ash from the eruption

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Speaker 1: was then carried away by the wind and spread over

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Speaker 1: the land and sea. The lava from the fissures covered

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Speaker 1: nearly one thousand square miles of land or square kilometers.

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Speaker 1: Volcanic gases convert to aerosols in the atmosphere and can't

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Speaker 1: affect whole regions. The lava flows released sulfur dioxide, which

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Speaker 1: created acid rains that killed trees and irritated skin. The

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Speaker 1: clouds of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen fluoride that lay produced

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Speaker 1: turned into a haze that spread throughout Europe and into

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Speaker 1: Russia and China. People realized that animals were being affected

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Speaker 1: by the eruption, getting growths on their bodies and becoming bloated.

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Speaker 1: As the earth was contaminated, livestock were poisoned. More than

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Speaker 1: half of Iceland's grazing livestock died due to the Lucky eruption.

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Speaker 1: Because the poisonous clouds killed crops in livestock, famine and

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Speaker 1: disease were rampant. This resulted in the death of somewhere

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Speaker 1: between twenty and of Iceland's population. Some people have suggested

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Speaker 1: that the famine and poverty the eruption caused helped trigger

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Speaker 1: the French Revolution. Most of the lava flows erupted in

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Speaker 1: the first five months of the event, but the eruption

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Speaker 1: wasn't completely over until February of seventeen eighty four. By

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Speaker 1: the end of the eruption, the fissures extended for seventeen

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Speaker 1: miles or twenty seven kilometers. The newly formed chain of

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Speaker 1: volcanoes was later named Lackey. The eruption had a huge

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Speaker 1: impact on Iceland in other places in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Speaker 1: It produced one of the largest basaltic lava flows in

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Speaker 1: recorded history, but it's direct effect on Earth's climate has

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Speaker 1: been debated. Some have suggested that the eruption caused regional

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Speaker 1: cooling and precipitation patterns. I'm Eve Jeff Cote, and hopefully

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