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🌎 2000 M6.5 Iceland earthquake

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📂 The repository

This repository hosts detailed information about the 2000 M6.5 Iceland earthquake in Iceland.

Available information in the folders:

  • Impact
  • Recording stations
  • Ruptrues
  • OpenQuake_gmfs

🚀 The earthquake at a glance

The 2000 Iceland earthquakes struck southern Iceland on June 17 and 21. There were no fatalities but three people suffered minor injuries and there was considerable damage to infrastructure. The two earthquakes were the first major seismic activity in Iceland for 88 years. The recorded magnitude of both of the main quakes was 6.5 Mwc. Wikipedia

Ground shaking

The estimation of the ground shaking has The folder OpenQuake_gmfs stores the required input files to generate the ground motion fields considering different rupture solutions and conditioning the ground shaking to the recording stations for the event, when available. The figures below present an example of the results, showing the median ground motion fields with and without conditioning the ground shaking for the rupture and ground motion model that indicates the lowest nominal bias.

☄️ Consequences

The information collected for the consequences of the event and the corresponding references is available in the Impact folder. When available, information at different geographical levels is provided considering the building damage, economic losses and human impact.

A summary of the main consequences of the event is available in the earthquake_information.csv file:

FIELD DESCRIPTION
Year 2000
Country Iceland
Region Iceland
Event_Name Iceland
Local_Date 17/06/2000
Local_Time 15:40:41
Latitude 63.966
Longitude -20.487
Depth_(km) 10
Mw 6.5
Max_Intensity_(MMI) VIII
Fault_mechanism Strike-slip
Tectonic_region_type Active Shallow Crust
Fatalities nan
Injured nan
Displaced_Population 36
Affected_Population 108
Affected_Units nan
Damaged_Units 11.0 Buildings
Collapsed_Units 11.0 Buildings
Economic_Losses 12-20 M USD
Insured_Losses nan
Induced_Effects nan
USGS page https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp0009urh/executive
Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Iceland_earthquakes

🌟 Contributors

We would like to acknowledge the many contributors to the Earthquake Consequence Database.