{"id":9947,"date":"2021-12-30T21:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:57:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T21:57:30","slug":"felt-earthquake-on-south-icelandic-seismic-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9947","title":{"rendered":"Felt earthquake on South Icelandic Seismic zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 30-December-2021 at 04:16 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,0 was felt in Selfoss town and Hverager\u00f0i town. This earthquake was part of a swarm in the area that is ongoing at the writing of this article.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9948\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211230_1900.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211230_1900.png\" alt=\"Green star on the far right on the map with few red dots, showing the earthquake activity in SISZ \" width=\"540\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211230_1900.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211230_1900-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in SISZ. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are no volcanoes in this area so this is only a tectonic activity. It is not possible to know when this earthquake swarm ends. This might be a aftershock activity after the Mw6,3 earthquake in SISZ that took place in this location in the year 2008. I expect this earthquake swarm to continue to few more days to weeks and then just end quietly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 30-December-2021 at 04:16 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,0 was felt in Selfoss town and Hverager\u00f0i town. This earthquake was part of a swarm in the area that is ongoing at the writing of this article. There are no volcanoes in this area so this is only a tectonic activity. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Felt earthquake on South Icelandic Seismic zone&#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":[10,40,45,277,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-sisz","category-south-icelandic-seismic-zone","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","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=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}