{"id":8964,"date":"2021-03-02T00:40:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T00:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2021-03-02T00:53:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T00:53:43","slug":"minor-earthquake-swarm-north-east-of-grimsey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8964","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake swarm north-east of Gr\u00edmsey island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (01-March-2021) at 19:53 UTC an magnitude Mw3,3 earthquake took place north-east of Gr\u00edmsey island. This might be a new earthquake swarm in this area since earthquake swarms in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone often star slowly. Earthquake swarms are common in this part of Iceland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8965\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210301_2300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210301_2300.png\" alt=\"Green star and yellow and red dots north-east of Gr\u00edmsey island\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210301_2300.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210301_2300-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity north-east of Gr\u00edmsey island. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is a chance of a stronger earthquake swarm in this area. Currently the activity remains small and nothing more might happen. This earthquake activity is not connected to what is happening on the Reykjanes peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Next article about Reykjanes peninsula activity is going to be written tomorrow (2-Mars-2021) unless something major happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (01-March-2021) at 19:53 UTC an magnitude Mw3,3 earthquake took place north-east of Gr\u00edmsey island. This might be a new earthquake swarm in this area since earthquake swarms in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone often star slowly. Earthquake swarms are common in this part of Iceland. There is a chance of a stronger earthquake swarm in this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor earthquake swarm north-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-8964","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\/8964","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=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}