The Arborg municipality has been awarded ISK 392 million (USD 3 million) in compensation for the large earthquake in spring 2008. Read the full story

Keflavik International Airport and Reykjavik’s domestic airport both re-opened yesterday afternoon, and ash cloud forecasts show clear skies for the foreseeable future and no further closures predicted for the time being. Read the full story

An earthquake measuring 3.2 on the Richter Scale took place under Eyjafjallajokull glacier in South Iceland near the active Fimmvorduhals volcano this morning. Read the full story

Norwegian doctors are in Haiti helping victims of the earthquake and the Norwegian Red Cross has set up a hospital near the Port au Prince airport, which has been operating in unbearably hot temperatures with inadequate air conditioning. New air conditioning units are now on site provided by the Icelandic Red Cross. Read the full story

It has not yet been decided when the official search and rescue effort in Haiti will end, but the head of the USA team said yesterday that unofficially it already has. Two siblings were, however, found alive yesterday in the rubble of Port au Prince. Read the full story

“A producer called me asking for video footage of our search and rescue team,” says Olof Snaeholm Baldursdottir, the ICE SAR information officer. Read the full story

The Icelandic International Search and Rescue Team has started work in Haiti. Two teams are searching the rubble of the four-storey Caribbean Market shopping centre in Port au Prince, and have already pulled two people out alive. At least one more is thought to remain alive inside. Read the full story

Following yesterday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Icelandic government decided to send the country’s International Crisis Response Unit, the members of which are specially trained in wreckage search and rescue. They will be among the first foreign teams to arrive. Read the full story

“The last three weeks there have been earthquakes about 10 kilometers deep below Eyjafjall-glacier, which is very similar to a series of events taken place in the years 1994 and 1999,” says geologist Pall Einarsson. Read the full story

Ossur hf., the Icelandic prosthetics company, this week signed a deal with the Chinese charity Stand Tall to help victims of the Sichuan earthquake which shook China approximately a year ago. The contract was signed in the presence of Iceland’s ambassador to China, according to mbl.is. Read the full story