{"id":10841,"date":"2023-02-03T18:52:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2023-02-03T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:52:54","slug":"increase-in-larger-earthquakes-in-katla-volcano-theres-no-risk-of-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10841","title":{"rendered":"Increase in larger earthquakes in Katla volcano (there&#8217;s no risk of eruption)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might not be anything at the writing of this article. Since there&#8217;s little earthquake activity in Katla volcano at the moment, its well below background noise. Over the last several months I&#8217;ve noticed an slight increase in larger earthquakes in Katla volcano, this might not mean anything, but I do not remember having seen this type of pattern in earthquake activity in Katla volcano before. Currently the earthquake activity is almost none and that means that for now there&#8217;s no risk of an eruption.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10843\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10843 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203_1705.png\" alt=\"M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier and the caldera shown as a elongated circle inside the glacier on the map from Icelandic Met Office. In the central caldera, there's a red dot showing the newest and largest earthquake of today.\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203_1705.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230203_1705-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimal earthquake activity in Katla volcano today (3. February 2023). Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Largest earthquake today (3. February 2023) had a magnitude of Mw2,7. This is what has been happening in recent months. This one or two earthquakes that are slightly larger than what I consider normal. There&#8217;s a chance this might be normal and nothing more is going to happen, but for now, it is impossible to know for sure what is happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might not be anything at the writing of this article. Since there&#8217;s little earthquake activity in Katla volcano at the moment, its well below background noise. Over the last several months I&#8217;ve noticed an slight increase in larger earthquakes in Katla volcano, this might not mean anything, but I do not remember having seen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Increase in larger earthquakes in Katla volcano (there&#8217;s no risk of eruption)&#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":[10,5,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841","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=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10844,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/10844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}