Two minor earthquake swarms on TFZ

Over the past two days minor earthquake swarms have been taking place on the TFZ. Largest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude of 3,0.


The earthquake activity in TFZ. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.

There is a change of more earthquake activity in this area in next few days to weeks. Since 2016 was considerably quiet in the TFZ.

Minor earthquake swarm south of Langjökull glacier

On Friday 20-Januar-2017 and on 21-January-2017 small earthquake swarm took place south of Langjökull glacier (in the area of Presthjúkar). Largest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude of 2,8.


The earthquake activity south of Langjökull glacier. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.

It appears that this earthquake swarm is over, there has been a while since last earthquake happened in this area.