{"id":7886,"date":"2019-03-28T17:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2019-03-28T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:46:01","slug":"update-on-the-earthquake-swarm-on-tjornes-fracture-zone-west-of-kopasker-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7886","title":{"rendered":"Update on the earthquake swarm on Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone (west of K\u00f3pasker village)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty level has been declared in the area close to K\u00f3pasker village due to this earthquake swarm. This is the lowest alert level in Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>Since this earthquake swarm started on Saturday around 1800 earthquake have taken place according to Icelandic Met Office. Largest earthquakes in the last 24 hours have magnitude 3,8 and 3,0. This might change in next few hours since this earthquake swarm is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190328_1455.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190328_1455.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190328_1455.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190328_1455-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm (green stars) west of K\u00f3pasker. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This earthquake swarm has increased the risk of a magnitude 6,0 or larger earthquake in the Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone. This earthquake swarm is large for this part of the Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty level has been declared in the area close to K\u00f3pasker village due to this earthquake swarm. This is the lowest alert level in Iceland. Since this earthquake swarm started on Saturday around 1800 earthquake have taken place according to Icelandic Met Office. Largest earthquakes in the last 24 hours have magnitude 3,8 and 3,0. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7886\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on the earthquake swarm on Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone (west of K\u00f3pasker village)&#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-7886","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\/7886","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=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7889,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions\/7889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}