{"id":10395,"date":"2022-10-16T12:54:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T12:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10395"},"modified":"2022-10-16T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:18:33","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-katla-volcano-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10395","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Katla volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (16-October-2022) an earthquake swarm started in Katla volcano in M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. Largest earthquake at the writing of this article had a magnitude of Mw3,8. I don&#8217;t know if it was felt in nearby towns and farms. Second largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,0.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10396\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_1210.png\" alt=\"Green star and red dots in Katla volcano caldera that is covered with M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. \" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_1210.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_1210-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Katla volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake swarm is ongoing at the writing of this article and the situation can change quickly. This might be a normal earthquake swarm and nothing more might happen. This type of earthquake swarm is not uncommon and I am not sure what is required for an eruption to start in Katla volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (16-October-2022) an earthquake swarm started in Katla volcano in M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. Largest earthquake at the writing of this article had a magnitude of Mw3,8. I don&#8217;t know if it was felt in nearby towns and farms. Second largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,0. This earthquake swarm is ongoing at the writing of this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Katla volcano&#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":[10,5,40,57,32],"tags":[225,222,260,251],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-earthquakes","tag-iceland","tag-katla-volcano","tag-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","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=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10397,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions\/10397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}