Weekly overview, 14th -20th of August - week 33

Just under 1.000 earthquakes were located in Iceland between August 14^th and 20^th. The activity was scattered over the whole country, from Reykjanes Ridge in the south to Kolbeinsey Ridge in the north. Around 650 earthquakes have been manually reviewed. Six events above M3.0 were located but only one of them was on land, a M3.2 in Bárðarbunga. The rest were all off shore on Reykjanes and Kolbeinsey Ridges. Activity has dwindled on the Reykjanes Peninsula compared to last week, aroun 270 events were detected and located there this week. The largest event was a M2.9 at Mount Keilir on Saturday August 19^th.