{"id":9348,"date":"2021-04-21T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9348"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:32:22","slug":"strong-earthquake-in-reykjanes-volcano-5-km-north-of-grindavik-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9348","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake in Reykjanes volcano 5 km north of Grindav\u00edk town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (20-April-2021) at 23:05 UTC an earthquake with magnitude Mw4,1 took place and was felt over a wide area and in Reykjav\u00edk. At 21:20 UTC and earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,1 took place and at 23:29 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,2 took place. Earthquake activity has continued today with smaller earthquakes and several earthquakes with magnitude above Mw2,0.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9349\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210421_1805.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210421_1805.png\" alt=\"Green star on the Reykjanes peninsula not far from Grindav\u00edk town\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210421_1805.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/210421_1805-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Reykjanes volcano not far from Grindav\u00edk town.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake took place in the volcano <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> based on location on the map. The map is slight unclear on the location of the Reykjanes volcano and what volcano is exactly there but this is based on best possible assumption that I can do. More earthquake activity in this area or close to it is a high possibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is possible to support my work by using the PayPal button on the website. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (20-April-2021) at 23:05 UTC an earthquake with magnitude Mw4,1 took place and was felt over a wide area and in Reykjav\u00edk. At 21:20 UTC and earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,1 took place and at 23:29 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,2 took place. Earthquake activity has continued today with smaller earthquakes and several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong earthquake in Reykjanes volcano 5 km north of Grindav\u00edk town&#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":[24,10,19,64,40,42,207,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-inflation","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348","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=9348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9350,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348\/revisions\/9350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}