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Juliana Kim

A volcano in southwestern Iceland is expected to erupt in the next few days

A line of cars queued on a road heading to the town of Grindavik, Iceland, Monday. (Brynjar Gunnarsson/AP)

A volcano is southwest Iceland is expected to erupt in the next few days, the Icelandic Meteorological Office has warned.

Hundreds of small earthquakes have been rattling the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland over the past few days — an early warning sign of a looming volcanic eruption. About 900 earthquakes have been detected so far since midnight on Monday. A day earlier, more than a thousand quakes — all below a 3 magnitude — were recorded.

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