{"id":11373,"date":"2023-07-06T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2023-07-06T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:14:00","slug":"earthquake-swarm-close-to-eldey-and-eldeyjarboda-a-reykjanes-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11373","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm close to Eldey and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a \u00e1 Reykjanes ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that sometimes in the last 24 hours an earthquake swarm started close to Eldey and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a on the Reykjanes ridge. Largest earthquakes seems to be around Mw3,2 to Mw3,7 or in around that magnitude. Since it is close to impossible to see the earthquakes on the map in all the activity that is happening close to Keilir mountain and Fagradalsfjall mountain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11374\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11374 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230706_1125.png\" alt=\"Green stars out in the ocean is the activity on the Reykjanes ridge. There's a lot of activity on this map and the whole thing is a mess to read.\" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230706_1125.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230706_1125-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heavy earthquake activity on the Reykjanes peninsula and Reykjanes ridge. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this earthquake swarm is connected to what is happening in Fagradalsfjall mountain and Keilir mountain. It seems unlikely, but this activity might have been triggered by that earthquake swarm. What is going on there is unclear. Since this is out in the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that sometimes in the last 24 hours an earthquake swarm started close to Eldey and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a on the Reykjanes ridge. Largest earthquakes seems to be around Mw3,2 to Mw3,7 or in around that magnitude. Since it is close to impossible to see the earthquakes on the map in all the activity that is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm close to Eldey and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a \u00e1 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":[10,301,299,64,40,23,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-eldeyjarboda","category-eldeyjardrangur","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373","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=11373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11377,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions\/11377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}