

Iceland certainly is one of the most interesting places in the world for geologists. Sitting smack on the Mid Atlantic Spreading Rift it is torn in the middle by two continents pulling apart. The earth's crust tears, opens, and new material from below rises and creates new land. The tearing of crust causes numerous earthquakes in Iceland every day, and now and then, magma rises causing one of its 30 active volcanic systems to erupt. 13 different volcanoes have erupted since settlement in 874 AD, and over the last 500 years Icelandic volcanoes have erupted a third of the total global Lava output.



Learn more about Icelandic volcanoes at the Volcano Hotspot blog





If you click on the sun button on top of a webcam a clear weather image from that webcam will pop up to help you picture the lay of the land when the mountain is shrouded in dark clouds for days or weeks!



