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Iceland is used to living in the shadow of a volcano

16 November 2023

11:37 PM

16 November 2023

11:37 PM

Iceland’s twelfth biggest settlement has been abandoned. For the past few weeks, Grindavík, a thriving town with a strong community of working people and a long history going back as far as 930 AD, has experienced terrifying earthquakes. The population was then evacuated after a magma dyke started pushing its way up to the surface.

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