Iceland Quake SwarmIceland is on the border between the Eurasian Plate and the N America Plate, so when the New Madrid Rupture starts tugging on the N American Plate to pull in different directions, Iceland gets to trembling. Insider Paper reported 85 quakes within an hour on November 10 and Volcano Discovery reported that Iceland had 1035 quakes of magnitudes up to 4.6: within a 24 hour period. It is the Mainland Portion which reaches up to Iceland and then down to the Azores that is being tugged. Can you imagine trying to have soup for lunch?
- Emergency Phase Declared and Grindavík Evacuated- ICELAND
November 11, 2023
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/emergency-phase-declared - The Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, in collaboration with the Suðurnes Police, has declared an emergency phase owing to seismic activity in the Reykjanes peninsula. A mandatory evacuation of the town of Grindavík has been completed. The evacuation order was put into effect amid concerns that the intrusion of magma, which is believed to extend beneath the town of Grindavík, may reach the surface. The volume of magma that has accumulated has surpassed that of the previous three eruptions in the area.
- Iceland Volcano - live: Shock Images Show Ground Splitting as Eruption Fears Grow
November 14, 2023
https://www.aol.com/iceland-earthquakes-live-volcano-eruption - Shock images show roads split apart near Grindavik in Iceland as the country braced for a volcanic eruption following a series of earthquakes and evidence of magma spreading underground. The country is susceptible to earthquakes because it sits on a tectonic plate boundary that continually splits apart, pushing North America and Eurasia away from each other along the line of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
ZetaTalk Comment 11/14/2023: It is clear from geological evidence that the split from Iceland to the Azores has happened before. The scripted drama of the Pangea breakup has Eurasia spreading while the Pacific compresses, which makes this split inevitable. The Iceland volcanoes are not super volcanoes, but like all volcanoes require residents to evacuate temporarily. This spate of quakes and crevasses is a result of the pulling apart of the N American Continent - the New Madrid Rupture.
