Giant rifts in Iceland, Iceland

Last years the researchers keep a close eye to the Iceland volcanoes. Earlier their power and dangerousness were underestimated. On the territory of the island, you can see several faults of the earth that has appeared after the movements of Eurasia and North American tectonic plates. The plates go from each other year by year for 7 mm. At the first glance, it seems not so crucial. However, for the last 10 000 years, the fault became bigger for 70 meters. If we put together these measures with the Earth age, these changes are drastically big.

Some scientists think that the main part of the fault is covered with glaciers. Their melt can become a reason for the increase of the fault. The overheated substance under the earth is covered with a huge amount of ice. If this ice melt and the water come to the fault, the large catastrophe won't pass away. That’s why ecologists and researchers from the whole world see the global warming as the main reason for the imminent lithosphere catastrophe.

Nowadays near the fault there are a lot of large cities and villages. They can be drastically destroyed after a small earthquake. Powerful Iceland volcanos were the reason of numerous large catastrophes of the 18th century. From them had suffered a lot of European cities and even Egypt. The explosions were so tremendous that their ash destroyed all agricultural fields of Egypt. This period of time was quite hard for the country. In 1784 the next explosion led to long-lasting temperature fall in the North part of the world. Next - Canyon Psaho