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The "plumbing systems" that lie under volcanoes, the location and behavior of magma chambers on the Earth's mid-ocean ridge system, a vast chain of volcanoes along which the Earth forms new crust, could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions. Researchers worked in Afar (Ethiopia) and Iceland, the only places where mid-ocea
Icelandic geologists have warned that passenger planes should avoid flying over the volcano Hekla as an eruption could result in tragic circumstances.
Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland left their homes on Saturday after increasing concern about a potential volcanic eruption caused civil defence authorities to declare a state of emergency in the region.
International speculation has begun that Iceland’s Hekla volcano may be about to erupt; but scientists say that there is not yet any indication of when.
A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocked southern Iceland on Thursday near the Hekla volcano, with tremors felt in the capital Reykjavik some 110 kilometres (70 miles) away, the country's meteorological office said. The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at 1:21 pm (1321 GMT), was located at Vatnafjoll, a mountain range located on a fissure zone near the larger Hekla volcano