{"id":14061,"date":"2025-03-12T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14061"},"modified":"2025-03-12T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:08:12","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-reykjanes-volcano-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14061","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (12-March 2025) at 14:29 UTC an earthquake swarm started in Reykjanes volcano. The largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,8. At the writing of this article. This earthquake swarm seems to be ongoing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14063\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14063 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/250312_1920.png\" alt=\"Red dots and green stars on Reykjanes peninsula at the edge where it goes out into the ocean. Dots all over Reykjanes showing other earthquake activity.\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/250312_1920.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/250312_1920-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake swarm on Reykjanes peninsula in Reykjanes volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t look like an magma related earthquake swarm. This seems to be a fracture earthquake and might be connected to stress changes in the crust because of the high inflation in Svartsengi volcano, that is not far away from this location. The earthquake swarm is at a low now, but might increase again with stronger earthquakes without warning. If needed, I&#8217;ll post an update on what is happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (12-March 2025) at 14:29 UTC an earthquake swarm started in Reykjanes volcano. The largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,8. At the writing of this article. This earthquake swarm seems to be ongoing. This doesn&#8217;t look like an magma related earthquake swarm. This seems to be a fracture earthquake and might be connected to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes 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":[10,40,42,23,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061","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=14061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14065,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions\/14065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}