{"id":11710,"date":"2023-09-27T22:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T22:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11710"},"modified":"2023-09-27T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T22:59:19","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-reykjanes-volcano-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11710","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano (ongoing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (27. September 2023) an earthquake swarm took place in Reykjanes volcano on Reykjanes peninsula. This earthquake swarm is ongoing at the writing of this article. At the writing of this article, the largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,3 and the second largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11712\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11712 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230927_2235.png\" alt=\"Green star on the Reykjanes peninsula in the Reykjanes volcano, there's also a green star at Reykjanest\u00e1 that is next to the ocean. A lot of orange and red dots at this same location.\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230927_2235.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230927_2235-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Reykjanes volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The source of this earthquake swarm seems to be magma intrusion into this part of Reykjanes volcano. I don&#8217;t know if this is going to result in a eruption, this earthquake activity seems to be too low for that to happen. That might change without warning, as sometimes happens with volcanoes. This is at least highly active time period now and what is going to happen is unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (27. September 2023) an earthquake swarm took place in Reykjanes volcano on Reykjanes peninsula. This earthquake swarm is ongoing at the writing of this article. At the writing of this article, the largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,3 and the second largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,1. The source of this earthquake &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11710\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano (ongoing)&#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":[24,10,64,40,42,207,23,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710","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=11710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11713,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions\/11713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}