{"id":1347,"date":"2011-08-22T17:34:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2011-09-13T01:17:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T01:17:36","slug":"minor-earthquake-swarm-in-oraefajokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since early this morning there has been a minor earthquake swarm in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1704-01=\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano<\/a>. This earthquake swarm is so far just minor one, with the largest earthquake being ML2.0 at 4.3 km depth.<\/p>\n<p>This earthquake swarm is most likely due to magma injection into \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. But this volcano is normally quiet and almost never has any earthquakes. But that has been changing during the past few years, but earthquake swarms have been getting more common in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Something that is in fact a big change from few years ago when no earthquakes where recorded from \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano.<\/p>\n<p>This increased activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano seems to be happening at the same time as there is increased activity in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1704-02=\" target=\"_blank\">Esjufj\u00f6ll volcano<\/a>. The two volcanoes are not connected. But this might suggest a more inflow of magma under the general area. But that is just a speculation, based on rather limited amount of data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110822_1700.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110822_1700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"110822_1700\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110822_1700.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110822_1700-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano is located to the south end of Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The earthquakes in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano have been taking place in the main crater of the volcano. But it is important to know that currently there is <strong>nothing<\/strong> to suggest that a eruption is imminent in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano or in Esjufj\u00f6ll volcano.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting reading material on \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/folk.ntnu.no\/rtronnes\/Sci-articles%20%28PDFs%29\/JVGR07-Selbekk-RhyoliteMagma-Or-1362AD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The 1362 AD \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull eruption, Iceland: Petrology and geochemistry of large-volume homogeneous rhyolite<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since early this morning there has been a minor earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. This earthquake swarm is so far just minor one, with the largest earthquake being ML2.0 at 4.3 km depth. This earthquake swarm is most likely due to magma injection into \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. But this volcano is normally quiet and almost never &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano&#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":[24,10,64,40,87,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-oraefajokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}