Minor earthquake swarm on Tjörnes Fracture Zone (TFZ)

Today (26-August-2016) a minor earthquake swarm started on TFZ. This is currently not a large earthquake swarm and only around 50 earthquakes have happened so far. More earthquakes might happen if this earthquake swarm continues.

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The minor earthquake swarm is shown by the cluster of red dots. Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.

This area has seen several earthquake swarm since July and is a high chance earthquake activity is going to continue in this area for the next few days to weeks. Earthquakes with magnitude above 3,0 cannot be ruled out.

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