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A seismic swarm has hit the Reykjanes peninsula in south-west Iceland with more than 5,500 small earthquakes in the last three days, raising the prospect of a volcanic eruption.

While quakes are a daily occurrence in the country, the latest swarm has been more extensive than usual, Iceland’s meteorological office (IMO) said on Friday.

“These earthquakes are a warning sign, a part of a longer-term story that we know we’re entering a buildup phase to the next [volcanic] eruption,” said the head of the IMO’s service and research division, Matthew Roberts.

The quakes originated at a depth of up to three miles (5km) and were caused by a long-term accumulation of magma that had been building pressure and was now slowly drifting towards the surface of the Earth, he added.

Earlier this year a volcano erupted in an uninhabited part of the Reykjanes peninsula after intense earthquake activity, the third such event in the region south-west of the capital, Reykjavik, since 2021.

A fourth eruption could now be developing, the IMO said, although predicting the timing of volcanic outbreaks is difficult.

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