{"id":13998,"date":"2024-12-13T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13998"},"modified":"2024-12-13T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:15:07","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-hofsjokull-volcano-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13998","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Iceland largest volcanoes has been having an earthquake swarm this evening on 13-December 2024. This is the Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,3 at 8,8 km depth. Other earthquakes have been smaller.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14000\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241213_2130.png\" alt=\"Green star and two blue dots and one yellow dot in north part of Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano. The green star is located in the western part of caldera edge. Hofsj\u00f6kull glacier and the volcano is on the centre on this image.\" width=\"540\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241213_2130.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/241213_2130-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in H\u00f6fsj\u00f6kull volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake swarm seems to be over. However, the problem with Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano is that earthquake activity often stops and then resumes several hours to days later in the same location. If that happens now I do not know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Iceland largest volcanoes has been having an earthquake swarm this evening on 13-December 2024. This is the Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,3 at 8,8 km depth. Other earthquakes have been smaller. This earthquake swarm seems to be over. However, the problem with Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano is that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Hofsj\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":[10,29,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-hofsjokul","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998","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=13998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14003,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998\/revisions\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}