Earthquake swarm shakes northern Iceland

A 4.8 and 5.7 earthquake struck near Siglufjörður, a small fishing town in northern Iceland, igniting a swarm of hundreds of tremors. 

The quakes struck along the northern end of the divergent rift or Mid-Atlantic Ridge that runs through the center of Iceland.

“A series of 3.0+ magnitude tremors have also occurred in the vicinity of the Krafla volcano, which last erupted in 1985,” says this article on The Extinction Protocol. “Krafla has been the source of many rifting and eruptive events during the Holocene, including two in historical time, during 1724-29 and 1975-84.”

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/northern-iceland-shaken-by-moderate-earthquakes-and-tremors/

Thanks to Peter Lamb and William Sellers for these links