Earthquakes in Iceland

Vatnafjöll () is a long, wide basaltic fissure vent system that is south-east of Hekla, Iceland. It includes from the north towards the south the hills of Innri-Vatnafjöll at high, Fremri-Vatnafjöll at and Vatnafjallarani at as the main Vatnafjöll edifice, at a distance of about from Hekla. It is part of the same system as Hekla, and the term Hekla-Vatnafjöll volcanic system has been used to describe it. More than two dozen eruptions have occurred at Vatnafjöll during the Holocene Epoch. Vatnafjöll has not erupted during the last 1100 years. While these eruptions were predominantly effusi

volcanic eruptions in Iceland

2008 earthquake centered in southwestern Iceland

doublet on June 17 and 21