{"id":10554,"date":"2022-12-19T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10554"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:41:27","slug":"earthquake-swarm-3-km-north-of-grindavik-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10554","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm 3 km north of Grindav\u00edk town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (19. December 2022) and yesterday (18. December 2022) an earthquake swarm took place 3 km north of Grindav\u00edk town in the Reykjanes volcano. Largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw2,9 and was felt in Grindav\u00edk. Earthquakes with magnitude Mw2,0 are felt in Grindav\u00edk, possibly even smaller earthquakes. At the writing of this article, this earthquake swarm is ongoing but weather is blocking almost all of the automatic earthquake detection.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10555\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10555 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221219_1110.png\" alt=\"Red dots just north of Grindav\u00edk town on Reykjanes peninsula. Few other orange dots here and there on the map showing smaller earthquake activity on other places on Reykjanes peninsula.\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221219_1110.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221219_1110-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity north of Grindav\u00edk town. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most of the earthquakes are smaller in magnitude. Less than Mw1,0 in magnitude. At the writing of this article. This is unlikely to result in a eruption, but that requires (normally) more earthquake activity than has been happening now. This might change without warning, but is unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (19. December 2022) and yesterday (18. December 2022) an earthquake swarm took place 3 km north of Grindav\u00edk town in the Reykjanes volcano. Largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw2,9 and was felt in Grindav\u00edk. Earthquakes with magnitude Mw2,0 are felt in Grindav\u00edk, possibly even smaller earthquakes. At the writing of this article, this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10554\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm 3 km north of Grindav\u00edk town&#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":[24,10,64,40,42,207,57,32],"tags":[315,222,239,241,233],"class_list":["post-10554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-grindavik","tag-iceland","tag-reykjanes","tag-reykjanes-peninsula","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554","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=10554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10558,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions\/10558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}