For a week now, the town of Grindavik [Google Earth] in Iceland has been ravaged by underground volcanic activity. It’s a fishing town situated southwest iceland along the coast. It’s on the Reykjanes peninsula which is the youngest area of Iceland formed 2000-3000 years ago from volcanic activity....
A barrage of hundreds of earthquakes, including two exceeding a magnitude of 5.0 and at least seven topping 4.5, rattled Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Friday. The seismic swarm suggests the eruption of an area volcano in the hours or day ahead and has prompted the Icelandic Meteorological Office to declare a Civil...