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It's a little hard to , but Iceland has 18,000 earthquakes in the space of a week. Most of them have been too small to . The largest quake was on February 24 and was a magnitude 5.6. The seismic activity that a volcano in the southwest of Iceland may be about to . Volcanoes in southwestern Iceland have dormant for over 800 years, but seismologists an eruption could imminent. Iceland is a volcanic island and used to the occasional tremor. However, swarms of quakes unsettled residents in the capital city Reykjavik. Scientists say despite the large number of quakes, there has been very little damage.

Iceland is on top of the meeting of tectonic plates deep in the earth. Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust around 100km thick on which Earth's land mass . The plates below Iceland are continually apart and North America and Eurasia away from each other at an infinitesimally slow rate. Living on a tectonic plate seismic activity is inevitable. One Reykjavik resident spoke about his anxiety by the 18,000 recent quakes. He said: "I have earthquakes before, but never so many in a row. It very unusual to feel the Earth shake 24 hours a day for a whole week. It you very small and impotent against nature."