Icelandic Volcano Showing Signs of Potential Eruption
At a Glance Mount Thorbjörn has been rising about a tenth of an inch a day.Emergency management officials declared a “state of uncertainty.”An eruption could force the evacuation of about 5,000 people. Mount Thorbjörn, a volcano in southwest Iceland, is showing signs of a potential eruption as it rattles the area around Grindavík with small earthquakes. Iceland's Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management declared a “state of uncertainty” after Thorbjörn began "inflating" last week. A rise of about a...