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Originally Posted by FanIn80
That's insane! Iceland is literally being split apart 2cm/year.
What is Hreppafleki? How does that play into this? As near as I can tell, it's its own plate just (apparently) spinning between the two continental plates?
Man, the pictures of the water along that fault line(?) as just stunning. Silfra... is fault line the right term? I've seen "rift" and "fissure" ... I guess they're all just synonyms, although this looks nothing like San Andreas...
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Iceland would have been two islands many years ago had the lava stopped, but this is volcanic island building at it's finest
I know it sounds crazy but seismologists say due the slow-moving molten eruptions and weak earthquakes Iceland is a very safe place to live.