{"id":11298,"date":"2023-06-28T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T10:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2023-06-28T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T11:01:28","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-hofsjokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11298","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (28. June 2023) an earthquake swarm started in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano. At the writing of this article it seems to be over, but I am uncertain if that&#8217;s the case. This was not a large earthquake swarm, with just around eight earthquakes happening. All where below Mw3,0 magnitude in size.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11299\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11299 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230628_0930.png\" alt=\"Red dots in western part of Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano caldera. Time on map is 28. June. 23, 09:30 Icelandic time.\" width=\"540\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230628_0930.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/230628_0930-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw2,6. While other earthquakes where smaller in magnitude. I am not sure what is happening in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano. There have not been any eruptions in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano in the last 8000 to 12000 years. There might not have been any eruption in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano for more than 12000 years, how much longer is information I do not have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (28. June 2023) an earthquake swarm started in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano. At the writing of this article it seems to be over, but I am uncertain if that&#8217;s the case. This was not a large earthquake swarm, with just around eight earthquakes happening. All where below Mw3,0 magnitude in size. Largest earthquake in this swarm &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Hofsj\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":[10,29,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-hofsjokul","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298","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=11298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11302,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions\/11302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}