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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Intensifying seismic activity these past few weeks along Iceland's southwestern Reykjanes Peninsula—marked by tens of thousands of earthquakes, as many as 1,400 within one 24-hour period—has experts warning of a likely volcanic eruption at any time.
While such activity is typically monitored by seismometers, seismologists at Northwestern University are also listening to the data collected by the region's Global Seismographic Network station using an app they developed a few years ago called Earthtunes.
For instance, several years ago, a project called LHCSound built a library of the “sounds” of a top quark jet and the Higgs boson, among others.
The local hot springs are a popular tourist attraction, most notably the luxury spa near the geothermal power station known as the "Blue Lagoon."
"It looks like 2021 kicked off a new eruptive phase which might see the several fault zones crossing the [peninsula] firing on and off for centuries," University of Cambridge volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer told Live Science.
Last Friday, they realized that magma was running into the ground underneath Grindavik and fracturing rock over a distance of nine miles (15 kilometers), cracking roads, damaging homes, and forcing evacuations.
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