{"id":12214,"date":"2023-12-18T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2023-12-18T23:53:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T23:53:49","slug":"eruption-started-close-to-hagafell-mountain-update-for-grindavik-on-18-december-2023-at-2317-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12214","title":{"rendered":"Eruption started close to Hagafell mountain (Update for Grindav\u00edk on 18. December 2023 at 23:17 UTC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update. Information here is going to get outdated quickly.<\/p>\n<p>An earthquake swarm started at 21:05 UTC in the dyke area that formed on 10. November 2023. This earthquake swarm is ongoing and seems to be connected to when the eruption fissure expands south towards Grindav\u00edk town. The eruption started at 22:17 UTC. There&#8217;s a lot of dangerous gas pollution from this eruption. Do not get close to this eruption. This is not a small tourist friendly eruption.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12216\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12216 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231218_2310.png\" alt=\"A lot of red dots showing the earthquake activity in the dyke and Svartsengi just before the eruption.\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231218_2310.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231218_2310-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earthquake activity in the dyke. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12218\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231218_2310_trace.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231218_2310_trace.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231218_2310_trace-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post new article when I know more in next few hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update. Information here is going to get outdated quickly. An earthquake swarm started at 21:05 UTC in the dyke area that formed on 10. November 2023. This earthquake swarm is ongoing and seems to be connected to when the eruption fissure expands south towards Grindav\u00edk town. The eruption started at 22:17 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eruption started close to Hagafell mountain (Update for Grindav\u00edk on 18. December 2023 at 23:17 UTC)&#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":[10,34,71,350,64,40,207,65,351,346,206,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-eruptions","category-fissures","category-hagafell","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-rift-zone","category-sundhnukagigar","category-sundhnukar","category-svartsengi","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214","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=12214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12220,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions\/12220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}