{"id":54990,"date":"2021-03-05T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54990"},"modified":"2021-03-05T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:58:29","slug":"iceland-has-had-over-18000-earthquakes-in-just-a-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54990","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Has Had Over 18,000 Earthquakes in Just a Few Days!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Iceland, 18,000 Earthquakes Over Days Signal Possible Eruption on the Horizon<\/h1>\n

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The earthquake swarm is the culmination of more than a year of intense seismic activity. It could also herald decades of intermittent volcanic eruptions.<\/h3>\n
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The Bridge Between Continents, a footbridge linking the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, near Grindavik, Iceland. The residents of Gridavik have been on alert for potential volcanic activity.Credit…Halldor Kolbeins\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

By Elian Peltier
\nNew York Times<\/p>\n

Volcanoes in southwestern Iceland have been quiet for 800 years, but the period of rest may soon be over: More than 18,000 earthquakes have shaken the area in just over a week, leading scientists to believe that an eruption could be imminent.<\/p>\n

Geophysicists and volcanologists say the quakes are the culmination of over a year of intense seismic activity, and although most of the tremors have lasted a few seconds, with light shaking, they have rattled residents in the capital, Reykjavik, just 20 miles north of the Reykjanes Peninsula where they have occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople in Reykjavik are waking up with an earthquake, others go to sleep with an earthquake,\u201d said Thorvaldur Thordarson, a professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of them, and that worries people, but there\u2019s nothing to worry about, the world is not going to collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earthquakes are common in Iceland because it straddles two of the Earth\u2019s tectonic plates, the North American and Eurasian, which are divided by an undersea mountain chain, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The ridge oozes molten hot rock, or magma, from deeper in the Earth, forcing the plates to spread apart and causing quakes on the island.<\/p>\n

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