What the records say
- When
- 17 Jun 2000
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.5
- Where
- Iceland
- Coordinates
- 63.97° N, 20.49° W
- Injuries
- 1
- Damage musd
- 20
- Houses destroyed
- 11
- Depth km
- 10
2000 Iceland earthquakes
Two earthquakes, both measuring Mw 6.5, struck southern Iceland near the town of Selfoss on 17 and 21 June 2000. There were no fatalities but were multiple minor injuries and considerable damage to infrastructure. The two earthquakes were the first major seismic activity in Iceland in 88 years.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A centennial earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page