{"id":9217,"date":"2021-03-25T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2021-03-25T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:02:00","slug":"minor-earthquake-swarm-on-tjornes-fracture-zone-east-of-grimsey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9217","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake swarm on Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone (east of Gr\u00edmsey island)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (25-March-2021) a minor earthquake swarm took place east of Gr\u00edmsey island. Earthquake swarms are common in this area. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,0. This earthquake swarm might not be over.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9218\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210325_1655.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210325_1655.png\" alt=\"earthquake activity east of Gr\u00edmsey island. Green star shows one earthquake with magnitude 3. Few red dots show smaller earthquakes\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210325_1655.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210325_1655-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earthquake activity east of Gr\u00edmsey island. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earthquake activity in the Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone often starts slowly before increasing. I don&#8217;t know if that is going to happen now since this area has been having a lot of earthquake activity in recent months.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nDonations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. That helps until the Google Adsense situation gets better. Donations also help me financially with this and other things. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nMoving Iceland geology to a bigger server<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because of current high traffic to this website I plan on moving it to a slightly larger server in the time between April to June. 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