The North Atlantic ridge won out, but only barely with our marginal net colder-than-normal result.

"As this part of Iceland sits on the north Atlantic ridge, it's not uncommon for there to be earthquakes."

Northern Hemisphere (North Atlantic Ridge):

Survival Zaferman (1992) directly observed grenadiers with a submersible on the North Atlantic Ridge and found their movements directly related to the velocity and orientation of the current.

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, off Northeast Brazil, the North Atlantic Ridge, the Red Sea, and in the Indian Oean off the Mascarene Basin.

Most intraplate earthquakes in Northern Europe, including the UK, are thought to be driven by distant tectonic stresses - a combination of E-W North Atlantic Ridge and N-S African Plate regional stress fields, and local mantle conditions.