{"id":10411,"date":"2022-10-21T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T17:30:07","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-brennisteinsfjoll-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10411","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (21-October-2022) an earthquake swarm took place in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano. Largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,0 at 10:23 UTC. This earthquake swarm is possibly over, it is however difficult to be sure.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10412\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10412 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221021_1535.png\" alt=\"Red dots in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano on Reykjanes peninsula, located just south of Reykjav\u00edk city and east of Kleifarvatn lake. A lot of yellow and orange dots on the map in few volcanoes showing smaller earthquake activity\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221021_1535.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221021_1535-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano and other nearby volcanoes. Picture is from Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is probably just a tectonic earthquake activity. But it is worth noting that volcano activity as has been seen in Fagradalsfjall volcano (Iceland newest volcano) is going to move east on Reykjanes peninsula. How fast and how long that change is going to happen is not known because of lack of data and written records from 700 to 900 years ago are incomplete and vague on details at best. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (21-October-2022) an earthquake swarm took place in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano. Largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,0 at 10:23 UTC. This earthquake swarm is possibly over, it is however difficult to be sure. This is probably just a tectonic earthquake activity. But it is worth noting that volcano activity as has been seen in Fagradalsfjall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll 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":[149,10,40,57,32],"tags":[232,253,225,222,241],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breinnisteinsfjoll","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-brennisteinsfjoll","tag-earthquake-swarm","tag-earthquakes","tag-iceland","tag-reykjanes-peninsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411","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=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10413,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions\/10413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}