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After 800 Years of Silence, Iceland’s Faultline Erupts Again – Scientists Fear It’s Just the Beginning
Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula is experiencing a resurgence of volcanic activity, with a series of eruptions marking the ...
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How volcano chaos unfolded: in graphics
Here we explain how and why the crisis developed. Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in ...
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Swim between two continents
The Silfra fissure in Iceland is the crack between North America and Europe. It is the only place in the world where you can swim between two tectonic plates. Produced by Claudia Romeo More from ...
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What happens when a volcano erupts?
Tectonic plates are key. They are large pieces of the ... This is what happened when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in Iceland in 2010. The ash cloud spread all over Europe, which meant that over ...