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

A seabed mapping expedition in the Arctic region has returned evidence that suggests Denmark has a strong claim to the North Pole thanks to its continued sovereignty over Greenland, whose Home Rule does not entirely remove it from the Danish kingdom. At present, no nation has sovereign rights over the North Pole, even though many covet the idea now that the Arctic appears to be warming up. 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

With Iceland being located on the junction of the Eurasian and North American Tectonic plates, large parts of the country are volcanically active. Some of the volcanoes even erupt with somewhat regular intervals. Consequently the Icelandic Meteorological Office keeps a close watch on all seismoligical activity in Iceland. The image from their website shows the current and last 48 hours’ level of activity with yesterday’s large earthquake, magnitude of 6.1 – 6.3, literally off the chart. The green stars on the map represent quakes over 3 on the Richter scale.

Authorities don’t expect more big quakes but as evident by the chart, the earth is still moving under the shaken population of Selfoss, Hveragerdi and surrounding area, many of which have moved out of their seriously damaged homes.