Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge yesterday (28-March 2020)

Yesterday (28-March 2020) there was an earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge. This was a short earthquake swarm at the writing of this article. Largest earthquakes in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,5. Total of seven earthquakes happened that were larger than magnitude Mw3,0. Earthquake activity has stopped at the writing of this of this article.


The earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.

It is unclear if this earthquake swarm is connected to the earthquake activity north of Grindavík village. It is unclear if this is the volcano Reykjanes or some other volcano at this location (Eldey).

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