Earthquake swarm hits North Iceland

Iceland Monitor
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:15 UTC

© Skjáskot/Veðurstofa Íslands

The earthquakes this morning with the largest shown as a green star on the map.

Almost thirty earthquakes occurred in North Iceland and the ocean north of Iceland last night. The largest earthquake of the swarm occured at 2.30 AM at a magnitude of 3.0. Its origins were around 20 km North East of Siglufjörður.

The swarm began at around 00.30 last night and most of them were at a magnitude of between 1.0 and 2.0. An earthquake of 2.8 occurred North East of Grímsey.

The Iceland Met Office sees no cause for concern but is carefully monitoring events.

Comment: Some other seismic activity from around the world this week includes:

• Powerful shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.6 hits off Papua New Guinea
• Powerful 6.5 earthquake in the Banda Sea
• Shallow 6.3-magnitude quake strikes Southeast Indian Ridge
• 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea region

See also: Scientists predict upsurge in major earthquakes for 2018 due to slowdown in Earth's rotation