{"id":13732,"date":"2024-10-06T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13732"},"modified":"2024-10-06T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T21:38:55","slug":"large-earthquake-in-bardarbunga-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13732","title":{"rendered":"Large earthquake in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (06-October-2024) at 17:56 UTC an earthquake with magnitude Mw4,5 to Mw5,1 took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Icelandic Met Office reported this earthquake as Mw4,5 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emsc-csem.org\/Earthquake_information\/earthquake.php?id=1714836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EMSC<\/a> reported this earthquake as Mw5,0. USGS reported this earthquake as Mw5,1. Yesterday (05-October 2024) two magnitude Mw3,7 and Mw3,9 earthquakes took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13734\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13734 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/241006_1900.png\" alt=\"Four green stars in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. One to the north-east and the other to the south-west. There are few other points on the map, showing smaller earthquakes.\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/241006_1900.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/241006_1900-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbungna volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano happens because of inflation that is now happening in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. This inflation is going to take decades to complete and in that time, this type of earthquake activity is going to be frequent with several magnitude Mw5,0 earthquake over the year, but fewer as the time goes on from last eruption (ended in February 2015). After 10 to 30 years, there is only going to be one magnitude Mw5,0 earthquake larger every few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (06-October-2024) at 17:56 UTC an earthquake with magnitude Mw4,5 to Mw5,1 took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Icelandic Met Office reported this earthquake as Mw4,5 and EMSC reported this earthquake as Mw5,0. USGS reported this earthquake as Mw5,1. Yesterday (05-October 2024) two magnitude Mw3,7 and Mw3,9 earthquakes took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. This earthquake activity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Large earthquake in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga 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":[7,10,64,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13732","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\/13732","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=13732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13736,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions\/13736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}