{"id":9979,"date":"2022-01-29T05:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T05:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2022-01-29T05:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T05:49:27","slug":"earthquake-swarm-south-of-grimsey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9979","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm south of Gr\u00edmsey island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 29-January-2022 an earthquake swarm started south of Gr\u00edmsey island. This earthquake swarm is rather strong at the writing of this article.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9980\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/220129_0440.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9980 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/220129_0440.png\" alt=\"Green star south of Gr\u00edmsey island along with few red dots showing smaller earthquakes\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/220129_0440.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/220129_0440-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity south of Gr\u00edmsey island. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake swarm is ongoing at the writing of this article so there is a change of stronger earthquake happening in this area. Largest earthquakes so far had a magnitude of Mw3,3 (02:35 UTC) and Mw3,5 (02:40 UTC). There is a swarm of smaller earthquakes at the same location that started after the Mw3,3 earthquake, that is the first earthquake in this swarm. Earthquake swarms like this are common in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone (TFZ). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night of 29-January-2022 an earthquake swarm started south of Gr\u00edmsey island. This earthquake swarm is rather strong at the writing of this article.<\/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-9979","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\/9979","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=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9982,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions\/9982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}