42 quakes Mag. 1+

3 quakes Mag. 2+

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Latest quakes near Brennisteinsfjöll volcano in the past 7 days - list, stats and map

Updated: Apr 20, 2024 02:53 GMT - refresh

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In the past 7 days, Brennisteinsfjöll volcano has had 299 quakes of magnitudes up to 3.3:

1 quake above magnitude 3
2 quakes between magnitude 2 and 3
296 quakes below magnitude 2 that people normally don't feel.

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Latest quakes near Brennisteinsfjöll volcano in the past 7 days - list, stats and map
Date and Time	Mag Depth	Distance	Location	Details
Apr 19, 04:23 pm (Reykjavik)	1.5 4.6 km	12 km (7.6 mi) to the W	1.4 km NNW of Krýsuvík	Info
Apr 19, 12:08 pm (Reykjavik)	1.2 3.8 km	16 km (9.9 mi) to the W	3.1 km NNE of Keilir	Info
Thursday, April 18, 2024 GMT (2 quakes)
Apr 18, 09:08 pm (Reykjavik)	1.1 5.5 km	5.8 km (3.6 mi) to the W	6.5 km ENE of Krýsuvík	Info
Apr 18, 08:07 pm (Reykjavik)	1.5 6.7 km	5.8 km (3.6 mi) to the W	6.7 km NE of Krýsuvík	Info
Monday, April 15, 2024 GMT (4 quakes)
Apr 15, 04:54 pm (Reykjavik)	2.8 3.5 km	26 km (16 mi) to the NE	2.9 km NNW of Skálafell I FELT IT	Info
Apr 15, 05:19 am (Reykjavik)	1.3 4.2 km	10.5 km (6.5 mi) to the W	Iceland: 4.4 km N of Krýsuvík	Info
Apr 15, 04:34 am (Reykjavik)	2.2 4.6 km	12 km (7.3 mi) to the W	Iceland: 4.6 km N of Krýsuvík	Info
Apr 15, 03:58 am (Reykjavik)	1.8 4.2 km	10.2 km (6.3 mi) to the W	4.6 km NNE of Krýsuvík	Info
Sunday, April 14, 2024 GMT (4 quakes)
Apr 14, 10:29 pm (Reykjavik)	1.2 4.2 km	10.7 km (6.6 mi) to the W	5.2 km N of Krýsuvík	Info
Apr 14, 06:05 pm (Reykjavik)	1.3 18 km	13 km (8.2 mi) to the NE	1.8 km ENE of Bláfjallaskáli	Info
Apr 14, 02:53 pm (Reykjavik)	1.2 5.7 km	3.7 km (2.3 mi) to the W	9.2 km SSW of Helgafell	Info

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Estimated combined seismic energy released: 7.1 x 10⁹ joules (1.97 megawatt hours, equivalent to 1.7 tons of TNT) | about seismic energy

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The apparent increase in the number of quakes is not because global seismic activity has increased, but because the number of seismic networks around the world and their sensitivity to detect smaller quakes has been constantly increasing.
This is most evident if one looks at the number of smaller earthquakes (below magnitude 5). For larger quakes (magnitude 5 or more), the effect disappears after around the 1990s. Since then, the global coverage of earthquake of larger quakes has been nearly complete.

Average number of earthquakes

Based on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 19,000 quakes on average per year near Brennisteinsfjöll volcano:

Mag. 6 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 62.5 years)
Mag. 5 or higher: 1.21 quakes per year
Mag. 4 or higher: 28.2 quakes per year
Mag. 3 or higher: 234 quakes per year (or 19.5 quakes per month)
Mag. 2 or higher: 1,300 quakes per year (or 3.7 quakes per day)
Mag. 1 or higher: 7,100 quakes per year (or 19.5 quakes per day)

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Brennisteinsfjöll volcano (Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland) activity update: earthquake swarms

Time and depth of quakes (7 Oct 2012) near Brenisteinsfjöll volcano

A new earthquake swarm occurred over the weekend on the Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula, on the volcanic rift zone about 12 km SW of Brenisteinsfjöll volcano. The largest quakes was a M3.8 event at 5 km depth on Friday at 19:42 UTC. ... Read all

Tue, 4 Sep 2012, 13:46