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This weekend in Iceland, there were nearly 2,000 earthquakes in 48 hours,

and they've kept coming since then.

Seismologists are watching to see if a volcanic eruption is coming next.

I have spent a lot of time in the past few days checking the news, checking Twitter, I've actually got a little iPad on the

wall in our house and we got it on the live stream video cameras that are pointed at

potential eruption sites.

I've been checking almost hourly to see if it has started erupting.

Diana Roman is a volcanologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science and she says this area is

seismically active. It's experiencing earthquakes pretty regularly. There have been

about 20,000 in the region since late October.

So it's been going for a few weeks now,

but just this past Friday night,

it picked up very strongly overnight.

And so it's really changing just in terms of

how intense it's getting over time. Most of them have been too small for people to

feel but the biggest have reached a magnitude of 5.0, which Diana says is pretty big for the kinds

of earthquake scientists usually see at volcanoes. And they've been accompanied by something

called ground deformation.

The ground is basically swelling, moving upwards in some places and actually moving downward in other places.

Most of the time when this happens at a volcano it's so subtle that you might not even be able to see it with your eye.

So we're talking about, you know,

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