{"id":10461,"date":"2022-11-16T00:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2022-11-16T00:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:23:05","slug":"deep-earthquake-activity-in-hekla-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10461","title":{"rendered":"Deep earthquake activity in Hekla volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This started on Monday (14-November-2022) with an earthquake of magnitude Mw2,0 at 25,6km depth. This depth is as deep as the crust goes in this location of Iceland. This earthquake activity has been followed by two micro-earthquakes of magnitude of Mw0,5 and Mw0,6 at 11,5 km depth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10463\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10463 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221116_0010.png\" alt=\"Red dot at Hekla volcano in south Iceland. With few blue dots showing smaller older earthquakes.\" width=\"540\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221116_0010.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221116_0010-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Hekla volcano. Picture from Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are no clear or obvious signs that Hekla volcano is about to do anything. But this deep earthquake activity suggests magma movements at depth or pressure changes maybe. This is clearly not a big activity and at the writing of this article I don&#8217;t expect anything to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This started on Monday (14-November-2022) with an earthquake of magnitude Mw2,0 at 25,6km depth. This depth is as deep as the crust goes in this location of Iceland. This earthquake activity has been followed by two micro-earthquakes of magnitude of Mw0,5 and Mw0,6 at 11,5 km depth. There are no clear or obvious signs that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deep earthquake activity in Hekla 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":[10,6,40,32],"tags":[225,236,222,233],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-hekla","category-monitoring","category-volcano","tag-earthquakes","tag-hekla","tag-iceland","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","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=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10464,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/10464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}