REYKJAVIK - A fishing village in south-west Iceland was evacuated on April 1 after a series of earthquakes signalled a volcanic eruption could be imminent, authorities and media said.

The Reykjanes Ridge, stretching southwest from Iceland, is believed to contain mineral resources such as oil, gas and metals, other inorganic resources of the seabed and sediments, for example ...

The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland), around Africa ... created varies from one location on the ocean ridge to another. Between North America and Europe ...

The scientists have even coined the term “Rifted Oceanic Magmatic Plateau ... They argue that Iceland, along with the ...