{"id":10343,"date":"2022-09-12T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:12:51","slug":"update-on-the-earthquake-swarm-east-of-grimsey-island-12-september-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10343","title":{"rendered":"Update on the earthquake swarm east of Gr\u00edmsey island (12-September-2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update on the earthquake swarm that is ongoing east of Gr\u00edmsey island.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake swarm that started on 8-September-2022 east of Gr\u00edmsey island is ongoing. Over 6000 earthquakes have been recorded at the writing of this article. Largest earthquakes in recent days have had a magnitude Mw4,2 and have been felt over a wide area. People living in Gr\u00edmsey island and tourists in Gr\u00edmsey island feel this earthquake swarm clearly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10346\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10346 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220912_1355.png\" alt=\"Green stars and red dots in line east of Gr\u00edmsey island in the ocean. Green star is also close to H\u00fasav\u00edk, but that might be an error in recording\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220912_1355.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220912_1355-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are no signs of an eruption is about to start. That might change without warning, but I don&#8217;t know likely an eruption is in this location because there&#8217;s no good data on possibility of an eruption. There&#8217;s also no clear reading from any nearby GPS station. This most likely is just an earthquake swarm. The risk of a magnitude 6 to 7 earthquake in this area remains high and such earthquakes can happen without warning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations if you can. Donations help me survive the month. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update on the earthquake swarm that is ongoing east of Gr\u00edmsey island. The earthquake swarm that started on 8-September-2022 east of Gr\u00edmsey island is ongoing. Over 6000 earthquakes have been recorded at the writing of this article. Largest earthquakes in recent days have had a magnitude Mw4,2 and have been felt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on the earthquake swarm east of Gr\u00edmsey island (12-September-2022)&#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":[10,40,57,44,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-tfz","category-tjornes-fracture-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","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=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10350,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/10350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}