{"id":11103,"date":"2023-04-18T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11103"},"modified":"2023-04-19T22:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T22:42:29","slug":"earthquake-swarm-west-of-grimsey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11103","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm west of Gr\u00edmsey island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (18. April 2023) at 07:59 UTC an earthquake swarm started west of Gr\u00edmsey island. The distance is around 36 km west of Gr\u00edmsey island. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw4,2 and was felt in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Akureyri towns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11105\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11105 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230418_1405.png\" alt=\"Green star, red dots and orange dots west of Gr\u00edmsey island. This shows the earthquake activity in this area. Dots also across north eastern Iceland as smaller earthquakes also happen there. Time on map is 18. apr. 23. 14:05 (Icelandic time).\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230418_1405.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230418_1405-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake swarm west of Gr\u00edmsey island. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the writing of this article, this earthquake swarm is ongoing and there&#8217;s a risk of stronger earthquakes in this area. This area last had a major earthquake swarm in June 2020. With largest earthquake in that swarm having a magnitude of Mw5,8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (18. April 2023) at 07:59 UTC an earthquake swarm started west of Gr\u00edmsey island. The distance is around 36 km west of Gr\u00edmsey island. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw4,2 and was felt in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Akureyri towns. At the writing of this article, this earthquake swarm is ongoing and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm west of Gr\u00edmsey island&#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-11103","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\/11103","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=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11110,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions\/11110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}