A volcanic eruption that has engulfed homes in an Icelandic fishing port confirms that a long-dormant faultline running under the country has woken up, threatening to belch out lava with little warning for years to come, an expert warned on Tuesday.
  • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Since I’m Icelandic I’m going to add a bit of context.

    Nobody knows if it’s going to continue or not, pretty much everything is speculation and experts have a very wide range of opinions.

    Since we had a couple of eruptions in the area recently there’s a good chance it will continue and it’ll have awakened.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1723·
    10 months ago

    30,000 residents of the Reykjanes peninsula – a tenth of Iceland’s population.

    So… there is basically no one in Iceland.

    • M137@lemmy.worldEnglish
      253·
      10 months ago

      How is 300,000 people “no one”? That’s a lot of people, other countries having more doesn’t change that.

        • Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.caEnglish
          121·
          10 months ago

          0.00000375% of the world’s population is 300, not 30,000. I don’t think math’s your strong suit. Not that fractions of the world’s population should be a metric for whether we care about a disaster.

      • NeilEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Iceland birthed Sigur Ros and Bjork. You’re historically the most important country on earth in my book.

    • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Funny that you’re downvoted so heavily, my Icelandic buddy just nodded along at this statement

    • teichflamme@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, I was baffled how empty it is when I visited. Their capital is like a district in most other capitals.

      Still beautiful though.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      We were told as much when we visited. Apparently they get upwards of a million tourists a year, three times their actual population.