In the past week, Iceland has experienced about 17,000 earthquakes, including a strong earthquake of 5.6 on the Richter scale. The academic community still does not have a complete and definitive answer to this rare phenomenon, and the latest speculation is that the non-stop quake in Iceland may be caused by volcanic activity, with a prediction of a strong earthquake of size 6 or more and the possibility of a volcanic eruption.
According to “CNN” reports, Iceland has been hit by earthquakes of large and small, more than 10,000 times in the past week, even for Iceland, a country where earthquakes occur frequently due to volcanic activity, up to a week of continuous earthquake conditions are extremely rare, local people are very worried about this.
In response, Þorvaldur Þórðarson, a professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland, speculated that the possible cause of this phenomenon is that magma has intruded into the Icelandic crust below and is coming up near the surface, and because there are several volcanoes in the Icelandic region, authorities are warning of an imminent volcanic eruption.
Elísabet Pálmadóttir, a natural disaster expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Service, said bluntly that there has never been such a long and intense period of seismic activity in living memory, warning that the large and small earthquakes that occurred last week were just the beginning and that more serious conditions will occur in the future, including powerful earthquakes of size 6 and above.
It is worth noting that according to the latest simulation models released by the University of Iceland and the country’s natural disaster team, the lava flow would not pose a threat to any town if the volcano erupted.
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