{"id":10398,"date":"2022-10-16T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2022-10-16T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T17:56:19","slug":"people-advised-not-go-to-myrdalsjokull-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"People advised not go to M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police and Icelandic Met Office have now advised people not to go to M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. This is after the earthquake swarm earlier today. According to Icelandic Met Office this earthquake swarm is similar to what happened before the minor eruption in Katla volcano in July 2011 that resulted in a glacier flood down M\u00fdrdalssand and destroyed the bridge over the glacier river in that area. All trips to see ice caves in M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier have been temporarily forbidden by the Icelandic Police.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10399\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10399 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_1440.png\" alt=\"Two green stars and few red dots in Katla volcano caldera on the east side of the volcano under M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_1440.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_1440-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Katla volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In July 2011 it took around 24 hours from the start of the earthquake activity then until something happened. If that is going to be case now I don&#8217;t know. That this activity is similar to July 2011 eruption is worrying. The eruption in July 2011 was minor and didn&#8217;t break the glacier, but it resulted in damage in that area from the glacier flood.<\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquakes now have the magnitude of Mw3,8 and Mw3,0 (few of them). Other earthquakes have been smaller in magnitude but that might change without warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police and Icelandic Met Office have now advised people not to go to M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. This is after the earthquake swarm earlier today. According to Icelandic Met Office this earthquake swarm is similar to what happened before the minor eruption in Katla volcano in July 2011 that resulted in a glacier flood down M\u00fdrdalssand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People advised not go to M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier&#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":[225,298,222,242,243],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-earthquakes","tag-glacier","tag-iceland","tag-katla","tag-myrdalsjokull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","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=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10400,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}