Over 3000 tremors have shaken the seismographs in the last three days, while an eruption is in sight for a volcano in the south of the island.
The earth trembles in the north of Iceland. Over 3000 tremors have shaken the seismographs in the last three days, announced Monday, the scientists, while an eruption is in sight for a volcano in the south of the island.
The volcano Grímsvötn, the most active of the island’s boreal is preparing for its next eruption, the first since 2011, have informed the authorities since mid-June. Rates of sulphur dioxide, particularly high levels were recorded, indicating the presence of magma at shallow depth.
If the eruption of the Eyjafjöll volcano in 2010 had led to the formation of a huge cloud of smoke and sown chaos in the skies over europe for a month, with more than 100 000 flights cancelled and eight million passengers stranded, the risk, this time, are considered more low. But the revival of the Grímsvötn in 2011 had led to the cancellation of around 900 flights, the ash had reached the Uk and around the european continent. Volcano subglaciaire, its eruption also triggers floods associated with the melting of the ice cover.
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On the north coast this time, three earthquakes of a magnitude greater than 5 on the magnitude of the moment scale have been recorded in recent days. One of them has been felt up in Reykjavík, the capital city, located 265 km.
No injuries or major damage
According to the meteorological Institute of Iceland, the epicenter of this “swarm” of seismic, which is expected to continue over the next few days, is located 20 kilometres off the coast of Siglufjördur, a small village of some 1200 souls on the north coast of iceland. And a few tens of kilometres to Akureyri, the second largest city of Iceland with nearly 20 000 inhabitants.
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No injuries or major damage is for the moment to lament – only landslides and rock falls were observed near the epicenter.
The region is regularly shaken by earthquakes located on the fracture zone Tjörnes, this fault geologically active is composed of a series of zones of tectonic and volcanic movement. The last event of this type was recorded in 2012-2013. The earthquake was the most intense in this area dates back to 1755, with – according to studies conducted much later – tremors of magnitude 7.
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These events occur when a part of the country was already under surveillance: since January, a series of earthquakes has shaken the area around Grindavik, not far from the waters smoking in the touristy “blue Lagoon” in the Reykjanes peninsula (south-west).
