{"id":10482,"date":"2022-11-23T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10482"},"modified":"2022-11-23T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:18:14","slug":"strong-earthquake-swarm-in-oraefajokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10482","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (23-November-2022) at 10:04 UTC an earthquake with magnitude Mw3,1 took place in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. According to the news and Icelandic Met Office, this is the largest earthquake in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano since the year 2018. This earthquake was felt on nearby farms. There is no town close to \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. A smaller earthquake with magnitude of Mw2,6 was also felt in the nearby area. A swarm of smaller earthquakes also took place inside \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano caldera. Bad weather in south Iceland is preventing detection of all the earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10483\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10483 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221123_1245.png\" alt=\"Red dots and a green star in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano in south part of Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier. This is the most southern part of Iceland in south-east Iceland.\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221123_1245.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/221123_1245-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Picture from Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano last time had this type of earthquake activity in the years 2018 and 2019 when it started to quiet down again. There are signs that magma is moving inside the volcano. When and if that is going to result in a eruption is impossible to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (23-November-2022) at 10:04 UTC an earthquake with magnitude Mw3,1 took place in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. According to the news and Icelandic Met Office, this is the largest earthquake in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano since the year 2018. This earthquake was felt on nearby farms. There is no town close to \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. A smaller earthquake with magnitude &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull 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":[10,64,40,87,57,32],"tags":[253,222,310,233],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-oraefajokull","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-earthquake-swarm","tag-iceland","tag-oraefajokull","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482","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=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10485,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions\/10485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}