During the night and today there has been a minor earthquake swarm activity on the Tjörnes Fracture Zone (TFZ). Largest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude of 3,1, so far 59 earthquakes have happened.
The earthquake swarm in TFZ for the last 48 hours. Green star shows the location of the magnitude 3,1 earthquake. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.
TFZ is highly active area of Iceland in terms of earthquake activity. It has now been a while since major earthquake swarm took place in TFZ. Earthquakes in TFZ can go up to Mw7,0*.
* This is just a historical note that I am making here.
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Another big one ?
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/drumplot/djk.png
Magnitude 4.3
Region ICELAND
Date time 2015-02-02 21:34:30.8 UTC
Location 64.62 N ; 17.45 W
Depth 1 km
http://m.emsc.eu/earthquake/earthquake.php?evid=425509
Monday
02.02.2015 21:34:30 64.619 -17.481 5.5 km 4.6 99.0 3.2 km SE of Bárðarbunga
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