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The largest earthquake to date was a magnitude 3, according to the most recent measurements by the Icelandic Met Office. The Icelandic Met Office continues to warn of the “persistent likelihood ...
Iceland earthquakes: Are flights still running amid fears over volcano eruption? Residents report constant shaking in town of Grindavik. 08:40, Holly Evans. Thorvaldur Thordarson, professor in ...
The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which spewed so much ash into the atmosphere that airspaces over Europe were closed.
Pages in category "Earthquakes in Europe" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1356 Basel earthquake; 1693 Sicily earthquake; 1738 Vrancea earthquake;
The seismicity of Romania is clustered in several epicentral zones: Vrancea, Făgăraș-Câmpulung, Banat, Crișana, Maramureș, and Southern Dobrogea. [1] [2] Other epicentral zones of local importance can be found in Transylvania, in the area of Jibou and Târnava River, in the northern and western part of Oltenia, in northern Moldova, and the Wallachian Plain. [3]
Since 1900, there has not been a M w 6.0 or larger earthquake within 500 km (310 mi) of the recent earthquake's epicenter; but nine M w 5.0 and larger events have occurred to its east. [23] In another finite fault model published by Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology , the focal depth was determined at 24.7 km (15.3 mi ...
Around 900 earthquakes hit the south of the country on Monday 13 November, with tens of thousands of tremors reported in the region of Reykjanes in recent weeks.
The strongest earthquake to hit the region since 1984. One house partially collapsed, and cracks in walls appeared in some others. [334] - - 13 [335] South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands offshore, South Sandwich Islands region 6.1 10.0 IV Aftershock of the 8.1 earthquake 16 hours earlier. - - 14 [336]