{"id":3529,"date":"2013-03-29T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2013-03-29T22:08:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:08:42","slug":"magnitude-4-4-earthquake-north-of-kolbeinsey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3529","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4.4 earthquake north of Kolbeinsey Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 17:32 UTC there was a magnitude 4.4 earthquake north of Kolbeinsey Island. I do not know if this earthquake was tectonic or volcanic in nature. I do know that there where several aftershocks following this earthquake. Since I did register them on my geophone in north Iceland. The geophone web site can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonfr.com\/webicorders\/tremoren.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. More information about the earthquake can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emsc-csem.org\/Earthquake\/earthquake.php?id=310421#summary\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, on EMSC web page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/310421.regional.svd_.29.03.2013.m4.4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/310421.regional.svd_.29.03.2013.m4.4.jpg\" alt=\"310421.regional.svd.29.03.2013.m4.4\" width=\"898\" height=\"889\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/310421.regional.svd_.29.03.2013.m4.4.jpg 898w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/310421.regional.svd_.29.03.2013.m4.4-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRegional view of the area where the earthquake took place. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to EMSC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Icelandic Meteorological Office did also detected many of this earthquakes that took place there. But detection from this location is difficult due to distance from the SIL network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/130329_2050.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/130329_2050.jpeg\" alt=\"130329_2050\" width=\"540\" height=\"634\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/130329_2050.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/130329_2050-255x300.jpeg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm location according to Icelandic Meteorological Office. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For now this is just a earthquake swarm and nothing else. Regardless of what happens later. Earthquake activity has been common in this area of the rift zone for several months now. I do not know why that is. The ocean depth in this area is around 3 to 4 km where it is the deepest. So if an eruption takes place there it is not going to be noticed due to the depth of the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 17:32 UTC there was a magnitude 4.4 earthquake north of Kolbeinsey Island. I do not know if this earthquake was tectonic or volcanic in nature. I do know that there where several aftershocks following this earthquake. Since I did register them on my geophone in north Iceland. The geophone web site can be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3529\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude 4.4 earthquake north of Kolbeinsey 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":[10,36,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-kolbeinsey-island","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","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=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}