Jan Mayen Island, March 10 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter Scale jolted the Jan Mayen Island Region on Monday, as per the National Center for Seismology.

The Jan Mayen Act of 1930 makes the basis legislation. The cultural heritage protection regulations are currently being updated to automatically protect all heritage pre-dating 1946, as well as ...

JAN MAYEN ISLAND lies in 71° N. latitude, 8-9° W. longitude, and is approximately 300 miles north of Iceland, 200 east of Greenland, and 600 west and north-west respectively of Tromsö and ...

A statement from the Norwegian Armed Forces said Sunday that the accident took place Saturday afternoon on Jan Mayen Island, located 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of Greenland and 1,000 ...

“Jan Mayen is an isolated island located far out at sea. The project includes unique geological, geographical and logistical challenges,” he explains.

Jan Mayen has felt six earthquakes in the past year. The tip of the island overlaps with the so-called Jan Mayen Fracture Zone, a transform fault which displaces the Mid-Atlantic Ridge by about 150km.

Norwegian fishery experts have recommended that the ban on fishing for cod near Jan Mayen, a volcanic island in the Arctic, should remain in place in 2025, citing concerns over the sustainability ...

A resource assessment of the southeastern Barents Sea offshore Norway and the area surrounding Jan Mayen Island northeast of Iceland indicates a 15% increase in estimated undiscovered resources on ...

The Norwegian earthquake centre NORSAR said it was recorded at 2.49am on Friday in the sea between the volcanic island of Jan Mayen and Greenland, a Danish territory.

Norway aims to provide more cash for geological survey work off Jan Mayen island, where the new government has decided to put licensing of prospective acreage on ice.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter Scale jolted the Jan Mayen Island Region on Monday, as per the National Center for Seismology. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km, making it ...