{"id":12477,"date":"2024-01-27T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12477"},"modified":"2024-01-27T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T19:08:03","slug":"earthquake-activity-in-brennisteinsfjoll-volcano-blafjoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12477","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake activity in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano (Bl\u00e1fj\u00f6ll)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (26. January 2024) and today (27. January 2024) an earthquake activity took place in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano, in the Bl\u00e1fj\u00f6ll area. The first earthquake had a magnitude of Mw2,4 at 22:54 UTC on 26. January 2024 and the second earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,1 on 27. January 2024 at 05:28 UTC. Smaller earthquakes started later today. That earthquake activity seems to have ended at the writing of this article.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12478\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12478 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/240127_1850.png\" alt=\"Green star in Bl\u00e1fj\u00f6ll area in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano to the east side of the Reykjanes peninsula.\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/240127_1850.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/240127_1850-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano and other areas on Reykjanes peninsula. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake activity, at least in the case of the Mw2,4 and Mw3,1 earthquake did show a sign that they where created by magma movement, among those signs was a strong vertical movement and low period signal that only happens when magma creates earthquake. At this point in time, I don&#8217;t think an eruption is going to happen any time soon. It is possible that magma has started to collect in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano. It is going to be several years until something more happens, it might even take decades before anything serious happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (26. January 2024) and today (27. January 2024) an earthquake activity took place in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano, in the Bl\u00e1fj\u00f6ll area. The first earthquake had a magnitude of Mw2,4 at 22:54 UTC on 26. January 2024 and the second earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,1 on 27. January 2024 at 05:28 UTC. Smaller earthquakes started &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake activity in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano (Bl\u00e1fj\u00f6ll)&#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":[200,149,24,10,64,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blafjoll","category-breinnisteinsfjoll","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477","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=12477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12479,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions\/12479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}