{"id":8900,"date":"2021-02-10T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8900"},"modified":"2021-02-10T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:58:57","slug":"earthquake-swarm-east-of-grimsey-island-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8900","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm east of Gr\u00edmsey island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 4-February-2021 an earthquake swarm has been going on east of Gr\u00edmsey island in the Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone. This was not a large earthquake swarm, with mostly just earthquakes with magnitude of Mw0,0 to Mw3,0. With largest earthquake taking place on 9-February-2021 at 20:20 UTC with magnitude Mw3,0. After that earthquake activity seems to have slowed down considerable amount.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8901\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210210_1430.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210210_1430.png\" alt=\"Earthquake activity east of Gr\u00edmsey island shown by blue and orange dots on the map. The earthquakes are out in the ocean.\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210210_1430.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210210_1430-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity east of Gr\u00edmsey island. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earthquake activity is common in this area and in 2020 several large earthquake swarms took place in the Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 4-February-2021 an earthquake swarm has been going on east of Gr\u00edmsey island in the Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone. This was not a large earthquake swarm, with mostly just earthquakes with magnitude of Mw0,0 to Mw3,0. With largest earthquake taking place on 9-February-2021 at 20:20 UTC with magnitude Mw3,0. After that earthquake activity seems to have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm east of Gr\u00edmsey 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":[10,40,57,44,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8900","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\/8900","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=8900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8902,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8900\/revisions\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}