{"id":10876,"date":"2023-02-07T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10876"},"modified":"2023-02-07T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:46:17","slug":"small-earthquake-swarm-in-bardarbunga-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10876","title":{"rendered":"Small earthquake swarm in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (7. February 2023) an small earthquake swarm took place. This earthquake swarm started at 11:21 UTC with a magnitude Mw3,2 earthquake and lasted until 12:05 UTC. Other earthquakes were smaller in magnitude.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10877\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10877 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230207_1420.png\" alt=\"Green star in the west side of Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier, were the largest earthquake took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Few other red dots at the same location show the smaller earthquakes.\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230207_1420.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230207_1420-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This shows that B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano continues to inflate at high rate. Based on what happened before the eruption in 2014 to 2015 in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. When the earthquake stop for long time period it means B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is ready for an eruption. While the earthquake activity happens is it is doing today, it means inflation continues in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (7. February 2023) an small earthquake swarm took place. This earthquake swarm started at 11:21 UTC with a magnitude Mw3,2 earthquake and lasted until 12:05 UTC. Other earthquakes were smaller in magnitude. This shows that B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano continues to inflate at high rate. Based on what happened before the eruption in 2014 to 2015 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Small earthquake swarm in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga 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":[7,10,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","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=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}