{"id":10219,"date":"2022-07-31T20:06:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2022-07-31T20:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:17:28","slug":"magnitude-mw54-earthquake-east-of-grindavik-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10219","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude Mw5,4 earthquake 3,2 km east of Grindav\u00edk town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (31-July-2022) at 17:48 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw5,4 took place 3,2 km east of Grindav\u00edk town. This earthquake was felt over a wide area of Iceland and all the way to Westfj\u00f6rd in few towns that are there. Damage has been reported in Grindav\u00edk town, with cold water main breaking and damage to house items, damages to houses is unclear at the writing of this article. New news reports show that items in grocery stores have been thrown out of their shelf. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10220\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10220 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220731_1915.png\" alt=\"The red dots continue to grow on the Icelandic Met Office earthquake map. Green stars are also many on this same map of Reykjanes peninsula\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220731_1915.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220731_1915-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earthquake activity on Reykjanes peninsula and close to Grindav\u00edk town. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake is a fault earthquake and as such not directly connected to a magma movement in Fagradalsfjall mountain, however, the magma movement in Fagradalsfjall mountain is the engine that makes this earthquake possible in this location. There is a chance that two magnitude Mw5,4 earthquakes took place at the same time east of Grindav\u00edk town. This was mentioned in R\u00fav news about the earthquake, such earthquakes are a lot more complicated and harder to get correct magnitude for. More earthquakes like this can be expected in this area or closer to Reykjav\u00edk city at any time without warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (31-July-2022) at 17:48 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw5,4 took place 3,2 km east of Grindav\u00edk town. This earthquake was felt over a wide area of Iceland and all the way to Westfj\u00f6rd in few towns that are there. Damage has been reported in Grindav\u00edk town, with cold water main breaking and damage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude Mw5,4 earthquake 3,2 km east of Grindav\u00edk town&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,204,37,219,64,40,207,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-fagradalsfjall","category-krysuvik","category-krysuvik-trolladyngja","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}