{"id":14051,"date":"2025-02-22T23:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14051"},"modified":"2025-02-23T00:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T00:09:25","slug":"strong-earthquake-swarm-in-bardarbunga-volcano-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14051","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake swarm in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening on 22-February 2025 at 21:04 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw5,2 took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. This has been followed by several smaller earthquakes and this earthquake swarm seems to be ongoing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14053\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14053 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/250222_2305.png\" alt=\"Green stars and red dots in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano that is located to the west part of this image, not far from the center in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier. Other parts of this image show other volcanoes with limited earthquake activity.\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/250222_2305.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/250222_2305-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14053\" 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 earthquake activity is possibly magma trying to find a path to the surface. If it is going to be successful now is another story. It is possible for the magma to fail this. It is difficult to know how this is going to evolve and progress in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. However, it is clear that for now, no eruption is imminent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening on 22-February 2025 at 21:04 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw5,2 took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. This has been followed by several smaller earthquakes and this earthquake swarm seems to be ongoing. This earthquake activity is possibly magma trying to find a path to the surface. If it is going to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong earthquake swarm 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":[7,10,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051","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=14051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14057,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051\/revisions\/14057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}