{"id":8702,"date":"2020-10-06T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2020-10-06T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:34:15","slug":"large-landslide-far-south-of-akureyri-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8702","title":{"rendered":"Large landslide far south of Akureyri town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (06-October-2020) an large landside took place on a farm far south of Akureyri town. There was no house damage in this landslide but a water well for the farm and other houses was destroyed in this landslide according to the news.<\/p>\n<p>All pictures are from the police of Akureyri \/ north-east police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-1-skrida.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-1-skrida-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-1-skrida-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-1-skrida-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-1-skrida-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-1-skrida-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-1-skrida.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSide view of the landslide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-2-skrida.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-2-skrida-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-2-skrida-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-2-skrida-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-2-skrida-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-2-skrida-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jadar-2-skrida.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSide view of the landslide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Skrida-framan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Skrida-framan-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Skrida-framan-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Skrida-framan-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Skrida-framan-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Skrida-framan-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Skrida-framan.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFront view of the landslide.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear why this landslide took place according to the news. Some ideas have connected this landslides to the earthquake activity in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone but that connection is unclear at best.<\/p>\n<p>R\u00fav News has a video that can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/2020\/10\/06\/aurskridan-i-eyjafirdi-mogulega-vegna-jardskjalfta\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Aurskri\u00f0an \u00ed Eyjafir\u00f0i m\u00f6gulega vegna jar\u00f0skj\u00e1lfta<\/a> (R\u00fav.is, Icelandic)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. I am broke in October since I had to buy new hard drives for my computers as the one I used had failed. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (06-October-2020) an large landside took place on a farm far south of Akureyri town. There was no house damage in this landslide but a water well for the farm and other houses was destroyed in this landslide according to the news. All pictures are from the police of Akureyri \/ north-east police. Side view &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Large landslide far south of Akureyri town&#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":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","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=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions\/8706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}