{"id":3009,"date":"2012-09-22T00:49:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T22:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2012-09-22T00:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T22:49:56","slug":"large-landslide-in-north-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3009","title":{"rendered":"Large landslide in north Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago an large <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Landslide\" target=\"_blank\">landslide<\/a> did happen in north Iceland. This landslide did come from the mountain M\u00f3afellshyrna. It has been estimated that this landslide is about 300 meters wide and is about 1 km long. Rocks continue to fall from the mountain. Some are large as houses in some areas. So going up close to this landslide is not save for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that mixture of earthquake activity in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone along with rain and melting snow is the reason for this landslide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic news about this<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/drunur-i-bjorgum-vid-thrasastadi\" target=\"_blank\">Drunur \u00ed bj\u00f6rgum vi\u00f0 \u00derasasta\u00f0i<\/a> (R\u00fav.is, Icelandic, Pictures)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/gridarstor-skrida\" target=\"_blank\">Gr\u00ed\u00f0arst\u00f3r skri\u00f0a<\/a> (R\u00fav.is, Icelandic, video)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago an large landslide did happen in north Iceland. This landslide did come from the mountain M\u00f3afellshyrna. It has been estimated that this landslide is about 300 meters wide and is about 1 km long. Rocks continue to fall from the mountain. Some are large as houses in some areas. So going up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3009\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Large landslide in north Iceland&#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":[15,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geology","category-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","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=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}