{"id":14137,"date":"2025-06-17T19:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14137"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:07:21","slug":"strongest-earthquake-in-ljosufjoll-volcano-system-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14137","title":{"rendered":"Strongest earthquake in Lj\u00f3sufj\u00f6ll volcano system so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (16-June 2025) at 18:05 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,7 took place in Lj\u00f3sufj\u00f6ll volcano system at the depth of 18 km. It was felt in nearby area that does not have any dense population.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14138\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14138 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250617_1735.png\" alt=\"Green star showing the earthquake in the mountain area of Lj\u00f3sufj\u00f6ll volcano system in western part of Iceland. Just north of Borgarnes town.\" width=\"540\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250617_1735.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250617_1735-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earthquake activity in Lj\u00f3sufj\u00f6ll volcano system. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake activity continues to happen because of magma inflow into the crust at this location. Since the inflow of magma started at this location, the magma has not moved up into the crust that can be noticed. Resulting in pressure building up at the lower end of the crust in this part of Iceland. The crust in this area is not giving into the pressure from the magma easily and this crust is also old, dense and brittle. Making it much more difficult for any magma to move to the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (16-June 2025) at 18:05 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,7 took place in Lj\u00f3sufj\u00f6ll volcano system at the depth of 18 km. It was felt in nearby area that does not have any dense population. This earthquake activity continues to happen because of magma inflow into the crust at this location. Since the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strongest earthquake in Lj\u00f3sufj\u00f6ll volcano system so far&#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":[24,10,115,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-ljosufjoll","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137","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=14137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14141,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions\/14141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}