{"id":9322,"date":"2021-04-14T17:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2021-04-14T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:06:31","slug":"earthquake-swarm-far-north-of-kolbeinsey-island-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9322","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm far north of Kolbeinsey island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning (14-April-2021) an earthquake swarm took place far north of Kolbeinsey island. Largest recorded earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,5 but it possibly was larger but because of distance from the SIL network the magnitude is underestimated. I did record this earthquake on my only seismometers and it showed a lot of surface wave activity, suggesting a larger magnitude than Mw3,5. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9323\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210414_1620.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210414_1620.png\" alt=\"Green stars far north of Iceland that show the loaction of the earthquake swarm out in the ocean\" width=\"540\" height=\"634\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210414_1620.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210414_1620-256x300.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earthquake swarm far north of Iceland. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because of remote location of this earthquake swarm it is not possible to know what is going on there. The area is also under an ocean that is 2 to 4 km deep at this location. If anything happens it is not going to be noticed outside of being detected with seismometers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want to support my work it is possible to do so with the donation button or regular donations option. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning (14-April-2021) an earthquake swarm took place far north of Kolbeinsey island. Largest recorded earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,5 but it possibly was larger but because of distance from the SIL network the magnitude is underestimated. I did record this earthquake on my only seismometers and it showed a lot of surface wave &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm far north of 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":[10,36,186,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-kolbeinsey-island","category-kolbeinsey-ridge","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322","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=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9324,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}