A major magnitude 6.5 earthquake just struck a portion of Norway, and now one of the few volcanoes in the country has a chance of soon erupting. This might occur at the Beerenberg volcano on Jan Mayen, which is a heavily glaciated island. Today's video will discuss why this earthquake occurred, the geologic setting, and why a tectonic quake has a small chance of soon triggering an eruption of the Beerenberg volcano. Note that by far the most likely outcome is no volcanic eruption occurring at the Beerenberg volcano. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work "Beerenberg1", is a derivative of a photo (resized, cropped, text overlay, GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo)) from "Jan Mayen panorama", by: Sindre Skrede, SinWin, sinwin, 2012, Posted on Flickr, Flickr account link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sinwin/7975754622/, Photo link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jingke888/51163904135, CC BY 2.0. "Beerenberg1" is used & licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Youtube.com/GeologyHub A special thanks to the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel for granting me permission to use clips of his footage! Video Sources from the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpQryJnHTc [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTq4vNNgkNk Subscribe to EarthquakeSim at: https://www.youtube.com/@EarthquakeSim If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Sources/Citations: [1] U.S. Geological Survey [2] Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87(C2), 1231–1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read by Youtube.com/GeologyHub on Oct 5th, 2022. 0:00 Major Norway Earthquake 0:38 Ground Amplification 1:42 Geologic Setting 3:49 Typical Eruption 4:18 Historical Eruptions