{"id":10954,"date":"2023-02-21T23:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10954"},"modified":"2023-02-21T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:22:04","slug":"earthquake-swarm-close-to-geirfugladrangur-on-reykjanes-ridge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10954","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm close to Geirfugladrangur on Reykjanes ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (21. February 2023) an earthquake swarm started close to Geirfugladrangur on Reykjanes ridge. This is possibly in another volcano than Reykjanes volcano that is just east of this location, this is because of distance and its unlikely that Reykjanes volcano extends this far south. It has no other name than Geirfugladrangur. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,1 and this earthquake swarm is ongoing and stronger earthquakes are a possibility.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10956\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10956 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230221_2300.png\" alt=\"Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge, marked by orange and green star were the largest earthquake took place. A lot of yellow dots close to Reykjanest\u00e1 area.\" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230221_2300.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/230221_2300-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake swarm on Reykjanes ridge. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake pattern seems to indicate that a magma dyke intrusion is taking place. This area of the Reykjanes ridge last erupted in 16th to 18th century and has been quiet since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (21. February 2023) an earthquake swarm started close to Geirfugladrangur on Reykjanes ridge. This is possibly in another volcano than Reykjanes volcano that is just east of this location, this is because of distance and its unlikely that Reykjanes volcano extends this far south. It has no other name than Geirfugladrangur. Largest earthquake in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10954\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm close to Geirfugladrangur on Reykjanes ridge&#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":[24,10,296,64,40,23,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-geirfugladrangur","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954","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=10954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10960,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions\/10960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}