{"id":8883,"date":"2021-01-25T01:34:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T01:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2021-01-25T01:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T01:34:32","slug":"earthquake-in-kolbeinsey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake in Kolbeinsey island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (24-January-2021) at 09:16 UTC an earthquake with magnitude Mw3,1 took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=375010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kolbeinsey<\/a> island. Two unconfirmed earthquakes with magnitude of Mw2,5 and Mw2,6 took place at 17:37 UTC and 19:06 UTC.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8884\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/210124_2310.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/210124_2310.png\" alt=\"Green star at the edge of the image shows the location of Mw3,1 earthquake of Kolbeinsey island\" width=\"540\" height=\"477\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/210124_2310.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/210124_2310-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake in Kolbeinsey island shown by the green star. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The area is remote and it is difficult to know if there has been any more earthquake activity there. There is also a storm going on and has been going on for last several days and that limits detection of small and remote earthquakes in Iceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (24-January-2021) at 09:16 UTC an earthquake with magnitude Mw3,1 took place in Kolbeinsey island. Two unconfirmed earthquakes with magnitude of Mw2,5 and Mw2,6 took place at 17:37 UTC and 19:06 UTC. The area is remote and it is difficult to know if there has been any more earthquake activity there. There is also a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake in 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":[10,36,186,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-kolbeinsey-island","category-kolbeinsey-ridge","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}