{"id":7115,"date":"2017-10-06T23:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T23:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2017-10-06T23:53:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T23:53:49","slug":"ongoing-earthquake-swarm-in-tjornes-fracture-zone-tfz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7115","title":{"rendered":"Ongoing earthquake swarm in Tj\u00f6rnes fracture zone (TFZ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently there is an ongoing earthquake swarm in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone. This earthquake swarm has been going on since 05-October-2017. Over 120 earthquakes have happened so far. Largest earthquakes have had the magnitude of 3,9 (05-October), 3,5 (06-October), 3,0 (06-October). There is a good chance that in recent hours a new magnitude 3,0 earthquake has happened or is going to happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171006_2315.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171006_2315.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171006_2315.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171006_2315-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm in TFZ as of 23:15 UTC on 06-October-2017. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The largest earthquake are felt by the local population in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gr%C3%ADmsey\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gr\u00edmsey Island<\/a> and the magnitude 3,5 earthquake woke up the population last night (night of 06-October). No damage has happened so far in this earthquake swarm. I don&#8217;t know how far away from the population centre this earthquake swarm is happening but the distance is not that great. A 1 &#8211; 3 km at the most from the looks of it. Any large earthquakes are going to appear clearly on my geophones and they can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonfr.com\/webicorders\/tremoren.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, the geophone station in B\u00f6\u00f0varsh\u00f3lar gives the best signal if an earthquake with magnitude above 3,0 happens in TFZ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>Article updated at 23:53 UTC. Minor text fixes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently there is an ongoing earthquake swarm in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone. This earthquake swarm has been going on since 05-October-2017. Over 120 earthquakes have happened so far. Largest earthquakes have had the magnitude of 3,9 (05-October), 3,5 (06-October), 3,0 (06-October). There is a good chance that in recent hours a new magnitude 3,0 earthquake has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ongoing earthquake swarm in Tj\u00f6rnes fracture zone (TFZ)&#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-7115","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\/7115","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=7115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7118,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}