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Iceland has 33 active volcano systems, and sits on the rift where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates pull apart.

Her mouth continued to pull apart as Malevolent’s entire face bulged and stretched grotesquely, almost as if there was something inside her, fighting to break free of its prison.

Thursday, officers breached one of the barricades at the encampment and began to pull apart plywood and other materials that demonstrators had used to build a wall.

Just over a decade ago, Southern Europe was the center of a eurozone debt crisis that threatened to pull apart the bloc of countries that use the euro.

"But they don't seem to smoothly pull apart - they go through these pulses of higher activity. And this is likely what we're seeing right now in the Reykjanes."