{"id":11237,"date":"2023-06-06T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:10:16","slug":"earthquake-close-to-surtsey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11237","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake close to Surtsey island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 6. June 2023 at 03:17 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,0 at the depth of 15,8 km, took place close to Surtsey island. This was just a single earthquake and only one smaller earthquake with magnitude of Mw1,1 took place at 03:20 UTC, it is possible that few smaller earthquakes took place at this same location without having been recorded because of distance from seismometers that Icelandic Met Office has.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11240\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11240 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230606_1735.png\" alt=\"Green star next to Surtsey island, that is located south-west of Vestmanneyjar islands. A yellow dot showing a smaller earthquake north of the green star. Second yellow dot is an ghost earthquake.\" width=\"540\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230606_1735.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230606_1735-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake next to Surtsey island. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No other earthquakes have happened in this location today. This is just one off earthquake activity currently and I don&#8217;t expect that to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 6. June 2023 at 03:17 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,0 at the depth of 15,8 km, took place close to Surtsey island. This was just a single earthquake and only one smaller earthquake with magnitude of Mw1,1 took place at 03:20 UTC, it is possible that few smaller earthquakes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake close to Surtsey 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":[10,40,176,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-vestmannaeyjar-island","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237","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=11237"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11245,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions\/11245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}