This evening on 16-October-2022 an strong earthquake swarm started close to Geirfugladrangur and Eldeyjarboða on the Reykjanes ridge. At the writing of this article the strongest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw4,4 but that might change without warning.
![Red dots and green stars on the Reykjanes ridge out on the ocean. Reykjanes peninsula on the left side of the image](https://icelandgeology.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/221016_2220.png)
It is difficult to know how this earthquake swarm is going to evolve but there are clues in this activity that this might be a large earthquake swarm. However, activity in this area is also known to just stop without warning.