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Icelandic Meteorological Office ( IMO; Icelandic: Veðurstofa Íslands) is Iceland 's national weather service and as such a government agency under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. [1] It is also active in volcano monitoring, [2] esp. volcano seismology, [3] and, together with other institutions, responsible for civil ...
The average July temperature in the southern part of the island is 10–13 °C (50–55 °F). Warm summer days can reach 20–25 °C (68–77 °F). [4] The highest temperature recorded was 30.5 °C (86.9 °F) in the Eastern fjords in 1939. Annual average sunshine hours in Reykjavík are around 1300, which is similar to towns in Scotland and ...
Iceland's Met Office records 'considerably' fewer earthquakes overnight. Wednesday 22 November 2023 07:45, Barney Davis. From midnight there have been around 50 earthquakes detected centred around ...
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said there is a “significant likelihood” that an eruption will occur somewhere along the 15-kilometer (9-mile) magma tunnel, with the “prime location ...
November 27, 2023 at 8:23 PM. The strongest earthquake in 48 hours was detected near the evacuated town of Grindavik this morning, as the Icelandic Met Office continues to warn of the ...
The 2023–2024 Sundhnúkur eruptions ( Icelandic: Eldgosin við Sundhnúksgíga 2023–2024) are an ongoing series of volcanic eruptions in the Reykjanes peninsula, near the town of Grindavík, Iceland. As of 16 March 2024, there have been four eruptions between December 2023 and March 2024, following an intense series of earthquakes.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said on Saturday there was a “considerable” risk of an eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula because the size of the underground magma intrusion and the rate ...
Iceland's stock market, the Iceland Stock Exchange (ISE), was established in 1985. Iceland is ranked 27th in the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom, lower than in prior years but still among the freest in the world. As of 2016, it ranks 29th in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitive Index, one place lower than in 2015.