Category REYKJANES RIDGE

Magnitude 5.5 Earthquake Depth 10 km Strikes Reykjanes Ridge on 5th April 2025

The ridge originated as one arm of a ridge-ridge-ridge triple junction that separated Greenland, Eurasia, and North America. It initially formed a linear axis, spreading orthogonally at slow rates without transform faults or orthogonal crustal segmentation. Stable spreading continued in…