seismographs, measuring all three components, were installed. The old seismographs were moved to
Akureyri, in the north of the country, in 1954, and to Vík, south of the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap, in 1955. It then became possible to locate earthquakes of magnitude three and larger, and the number of earthquakes recorded increased considerably.
In 1958, a new recording station, equipped
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