More than 10,000 earthquakes have struck Iceland in the week since Feb. 24. The picture shows a satellite image of Iceland taken at night.
More than 10,000 earthquakes have hit Iceland in a week since Feb. 24, including one with a Richter scale of 5.7, the country’s most violent in recent years. Experts do not know when this series of earthquakes will stop. Fortunately, none of the quakes have caused any casualties so far.
According to Danish Radio, Benedikt Halldórsson, a professor at the University of Iceland and a researcher at the Icelandic Meteorological Institute, said that since Feb. 24, there have been no continuous The earthquakes have been occurring since Feb. 24, and it is not known when they will stop.
Halldórsson said the strongest quakes usually occur first, and the aftershocks that follow get weaker and weaker until they finally stop altogether. This is when the earth’s crust releases excess energy and eventually reaches equilibrium.
Of the recent series of earthquakes, the 5.7 quake that occurred on Feb. 24 was one of the strongest, followed by another that occurred on Feb. 27 with a magnitude of 5.2.
These earthquakes have so far caused no casualties, despite the fact that many people in Iceland are currently working from Home because of the Communist pneumonia (Wuhan pneumonia) outbreak.
Haldorsson said that if these earthquakes had happened in Denmark, it would have been big news, but because Iceland is located in a seismic zone where earthquakes occur frequently, local residents are used to them and know what to do about them.
He mentioned that they have one of the strictest building codes in the world to protect against earthquakes. They also learn in school what to do in case of an earthquake. And in everyday Life, they know not to put heavy vases or stacks of books on the shelves above their beds or seats.
Trine Dahl-Jensen, a senior researcher at the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, noted that although Icelanders are used to earthquakes, it is quite rare for them to occur so intensively one after another. This happens only once every few years.
In the case of Denmark, it rarely experiences earthquakes because it is located in the middle of a continental plate. Locally, large earthquakes only occur once every few decades.
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