{"id":12930,"date":"2024-04-21T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T15:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12930"},"modified":"2024-04-21T18:28:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:28:37","slug":"moderate-earthquake-in-bardarbunga-volcano-this-morning-21-april-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12930","title":{"rendered":"Moderate earthquake in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano this morning (21. April 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on 21. April 2024 at 06:37 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw5,4 took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Largest aftershock had a magnitude of Mw3,0. There&#8217;s no earthquake swarm going on at the time of writing of this article. This earthquake was felt in some parts of Iceland but was possibly detected over most of Iceland in a quiet locations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12931\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12931 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/240421_1350.png\" alt=\"Green star showing the location of the large earthquake. Its located in the eastern part of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano caldera.\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/240421_1350.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/240421_1350-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the strongest earthquake in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano since the eruption in Holuhraun in the year 2014 to 2015. This earthquake activity is a long term signal that inflation in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano has reached a new level. Eruption is not going to happen or is extremely unlikely to happen following this earthquake or in next few years. Shortest time between eruptions in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is around 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I recorded the earthquake on my own seismometer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12935\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/240421.063700.hvtz_.psn_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12935 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/240421.063700.hvtz_.psn_.gif\" alt=\"The wave form from the earthquake. A sharp dark spike on the recording of the seismometer. At the end there are strong separated waves that show the surface waves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The magnitude Mw5,4 earthquake as it was recorded on my own seismometer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on 21. April 2024 at 06:37 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw5,4 took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Largest aftershock had a magnitude of Mw3,0. There&#8217;s no earthquake swarm going on at the time of writing of this article. This earthquake was felt in some parts of Iceland but was possibly detected over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moderate earthquake in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano this morning (21. April 2024)&#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":[7,10,64,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","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=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12940,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions\/12940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}