{"id":8837,"date":"2020-12-18T05:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:44:07","slug":"landslide-in-seydisfjordur-town-damages-houses-people-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8837","title":{"rendered":"Landslide in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur town damages houses, people evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days the town of Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in eastern Iceland has been dealing with several landslides. During the night of 18-December-2020 a landslide moved a house of its founding and damaged it. Risk of landslides are also in other towns in eastern Iceland. I don&#8217;t know anything useful about landslides but the situation has turned bad in eastern Iceland. The reason for the landslides is heavy rain in the area and rain has been more than 200mm during 24 hours according to weather reports. Currently there is no change in the weather forecast until Saturday when the rain is expected to stop. After that there is expected that snowing is going to start as the weather cools in eastern Iceland. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.vedur.is\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Icelandic Met Office<\/a> website in English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/2020\/12\/17\/landslide-and-rain-alerts-continue-in-east-iceland\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Landslide and rain alerts continue in East Iceland<\/a> (R\u00fav.is)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/2020\/12\/18\/aurskrida-hrifur-hus-med-ser-a-seydisfirdi\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aurskri\u00f0a hr\u00edfur h\u00fas me\u00f0 s\u00e9r \u00e1 Sey\u00f0isfir\u00f0i<\/a> (R\u00fav.is, Icelandic) &#8211; News report on landslide moving a house off its foundations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update at 14:43 UTC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New images from Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur town show the damage that has happened in this landslides during the night. Images can be found in this Icelandic news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/austurfrett.is\/frettir\/husidh-hefur-snuist-halfhring\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H\u00fasi\u00f0 hefur sn\u00faist h\u00e1lfhring &#8211; Myndir<\/a> (austurfrettir.is)<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nArticle updated at 14:43 UTC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days the town of Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in eastern Iceland has been dealing with several landslides. During the night of 18-December-2020 a landslide moved a house of its founding and damaged it. Risk of landslides are also in other towns in eastern Iceland. I don&#8217;t know anything useful about landslides but the situation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8837\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Landslide in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur town damages houses, people evacuated&#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":[212,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-iceland","category-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8840,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}