{"id":1275,"date":"2011-08-03T20:48:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2011-08-03T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:48:44","slug":"earthquake-swarm-starts-on-the-reykjanes-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm starts on the Reykjanes Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a earthquake swarm has started on the Reykjanes Ridge. This earthquake swarm appears to have started with a earthquake that is ML3.6 to ML4.0 in size or larger. But I don&#8217;t think it is a Mb5.0 in size. On the earthquake list on the Icelandic Met Office web site there are several ghost earthquakes. But I did just record one earthquake on my geophones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110803_2030.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110803_2030.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"110803_2030\" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110803_2030.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110803_2030-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe current area of activity on the Reykjanes Ridge. <em>Copyright of this picture belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This looks like a normal earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes Ridge. So far nothing suggests that this means a eruption is about to start in this area. But that might change without warning since this is a volcano area.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to update this blog post if there are any more strong earthquakes on the Reykjanes Ridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a earthquake swarm has started on the Reykjanes Ridge. This earthquake swarm appears to have started with a earthquake that is ML3.6 to ML4.0 in size or larger. But I don&#8217;t think it is a Mb5.0 in size. On the earthquake list on the Icelandic Met Office web site there are several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm starts on the 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":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-reykjanes-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","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=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}