{"id":10116,"date":"2022-05-20T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:28:26","slug":"increased-earthquake-activity-off-the-coast-of-reykjanesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10116","title":{"rendered":"Increased earthquake activity off the coast of Reykjanest\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (20-May-2022) around 18:00 UTC the earthquake activity off the coast of Reykjanest\u00e1, that is part of Reykjanes volcano, increased again after few days of little earthquake activity. The earthquake swarm is ongoing and always changing so this article is going to be short because of that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10119\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10119 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/220520_2305.png\" alt=\"Green stars out in the ocean where the main earthquake swarm is taking place just off the coastline of Reykjanest\u00e1. This is in south-west direction \" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/220520_2305.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/220520_2305-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge, close to Reykjanest\u00e1. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Largest earthquake so far had a magnitude of Mw3,8 and the second largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,5. The Mw3,8 earthquake was felt in Grindav\u00edk and on nearby towns on Reykjanes peninsula. A Mw3,0 earthquake took place just north of Grindav\u00edk and was felt in the town. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (20-May-2022) around 18:00 UTC the earthquake activity off the coast of Reykjanest\u00e1, that is part of Reykjanes volcano, increased again after few days of little earthquake activity. The earthquake swarm is ongoing and always changing so this article is going to be short because of that. Largest earthquake so far had a magnitude of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Increased earthquake activity off the coast of Reykjanest\u00e1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,64,40,42,207,23,206,57,32,205],"tags":[231,253,239,233],"class_list":["post-10116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-svartsengi","category-swarm","category-volcano","category-thorbjorn","tag-earthquake","tag-earthquake-swarm","tag-reykjanes","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10120,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions\/10120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}