Echoing eerily from a computer's speakers, the voice is that of a middle-aged Nordic man. To avoid causing undue anxiety, he adopts a calm and measured tone.Whenever an is detected in this perpetually on-edge country of 40,000 square miles and 33 active volcano systems, his pre-recorded warning message is automatically activated, alerting staff in the monitoring room at the Icelandic HQ in the capital Reykjavik.On Friday, November 10, it was this unidentified man who informed them that Grindavik, a remote fishing port 39 miles away on the island's south-western peninsula, had been rocked by a massive tremor, sparking fears of an impending volcanic eruption.
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