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

Iceland’s south western Reykjanes Peninsula has been experiencing a huge amount of seismic activity in recent days. Read the full story

An earthquake measuring around 4.7 hit the southern region of Sweden last week, causing little damage but rattling the nerves of thousands of people. Seismologists estimate the epicentre of the quake was 18kms beneath the surface of the earth just outside of Malmo’s Sturup Airport. Read the full story

A 30 tonne boulder fell from a mountainside on the Westman Islands, just off Iceland’s southern coast early afternoon on Tuesday, MBL.is reports.

The huge rock left a half metre deep trench behind it and came to rest just a metre from the side of a road. Luckily nobody was hurt. Read the full story