{"id":10421,"date":"2022-10-23T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10421"},"modified":"2022-10-23T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:18:25","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-west-part-of-fagradalsfjall-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10421","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in west part of Fagradalsfjall volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on 23-October-2022 an earthquake swarm took place in west part of <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371032&amp;vtab=Weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fagradalsfjall<\/a> volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm so far had a magnitude of Mw3,0.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10422\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10422 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221023_1200.png\" alt=\"Green star just west of main Fagradalsfjall volcano. Few blue, yellow and red dots on the map showing earthquakes in other nearby volcanoes\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221023_1200.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221023_1200-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity west of Fagradalsfjall volcano. Picture from Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake activity is the result of magma pushing up into the crust at around 5 km depth. This is not a large dyke intrusion and possibly won&#8217;t result in a eruption, unless there&#8217;s a sharp increase in earthquake activity and that has happened (the August 2022 eruption started this way). This is currently a situation that requires monitoring for changes. If anything is going to happen is impossible to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on 23-October-2022 an earthquake swarm took place in west part of Fagradalsfjall volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm so far had a magnitude of Mw3,0. This earthquake activity is the result of magma pushing up into the crust at around 5 km depth. This is not a large dyke intrusion and possibly won&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in west part of Fagradalsfjall 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":[24,10,204,64,40,57,32],"tags":[225,226,222,241,251],"class_list":["post-10421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-fagradalsfjall","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-earthquakes","tag-fagradalsfjall","tag-iceland","tag-reykjanes-peninsula","tag-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421","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=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}