{"id":10126,"date":"2022-05-23T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10126"},"modified":"2022-05-23T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:55:44","slug":"strong-earthquake-this-morning-north-east-of-grindavik-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10126","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake this morning north-east of Grindav\u00edk town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (23-May-2022) at 07:14 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,5 took place north-east of Grindav\u00edk town. This earthquake was felt in Grindav\u00edk and in Reykjav\u00edk. The earthquake was located in a area that is either inflating or on the edge of area that is inflating.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10127\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10127 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/220523_1540.png\" alt=\"Green stars both north-east and north-west of Grindav\u00edk town along with several orange dots that show smaller earthquakes in the area\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/220523_1540.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/220523_1540-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity on the Reykjanes peninsula close to Grindav\u00edk. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Icelandic Met Office news, the inflation around \u00deorbj\u00f6rn mountain since the start of this earthquake activity is currently at 45mm. I don&#8217;t know how much inflation the crust can take in this area before an eruption starts in this area. Any eruption in this area is probably going to start with few craters that shut down with time and then there is just one crater that erupts until the eruption ends.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nDonations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donation. Everything helps me from being broke. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (23-May-2022) at 07:14 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,5 took place north-east of Grindav\u00edk town. This earthquake was felt in Grindav\u00edk and in Reykjav\u00edk. The earthquake was located in a area that is either inflating or on the edge of area that is inflating. According to Icelandic Met Office news, the inflation around &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong earthquake this morning north-east of Grindav\u00edk town&#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":[24,10,19,64,40,42,207,23,57,32,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-inflation","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano","category-thorbjorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126","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=10126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10129,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10126\/revisions\/10129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}