Two earthquakes of magnitude 4 and 4.6 were strongly measured in Akureyri and Húsavík yesterday afternoon.
This earthquake is the only one in a long series of earthquakes in the North that began in June this year.
According to Icelandic Meteorological Office, almost 830 earthquakes were measured with the office’s automatic SIL measuring system this week. This marks an increase compared to last week, when about 750 earthquakes were recorded.
The series of earthquakes in both Reykjanes and the north of the country is still ongoing. There were also reports that earthquakes had been detected in Ólafsfjörður on 9 September and in the Greater Reykjavík area on 12 September.
Einar Hjörleifsson, one of the experts at the Meteorological Office, spoke RÚV in an interview that voltage changes at the Tjörnes fault zone fault line have led to the voltage being released at Húsavík and Flatey.
According to a report from Indicator, urges Ármann Höskuldsson, a volcanologist from Húsvík, to consider earthquake protection in their homes.
It is said of him: “This fissure moves every hundred years and the last movement around Húsavík was towards the end of the nineteenth century. So this is the time and most people in Húsavík know this now. “
According to Ármann, it is suspected that the largest earthquakes in the cluster at the end of the nineteenth century were about 6 in magnitude. “It has to be taken into account when there are so many and large earthquakes that are moving ever closer to Húsavík.”
This can also pose a risk to older buildings that have not been built with modern standards that allow for earthquakes as well as furniture.
Guidelines for recommendations on earthquake protection from civil protection can be found here.
Source: The Nordic Page