{"id":14179,"date":"2025-08-19T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14179"},"modified":"2025-08-19T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:28:00","slug":"strong-earthquake-in-brennisteinsfjoll-volcano-on-18th-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14179","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano on 18th August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18-August 2025 at 18:10 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,8 took place in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano. This earthquake was felt in Reykjav\u00edk and nearby towns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14181\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14181 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250819_2110.png\" alt=\"Green star in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll just south of Reykjav\u00edk in Iceland on Reykjanes peninsula. \" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250819_2110.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250819_2110-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake swarm in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake swarm has stopped. There is a lot of stress on the crust in this part of Reykjanes because of the ongoing inflation and deflation cycle in Svartsengi volcano. Larger earthquake might happen without warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18-August 2025 at 18:10 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,8 took place in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano. This earthquake was felt in Reykjav\u00edk and nearby towns. This earthquake swarm has stopped. There is a lot of stress on the crust in this part of Reykjanes because of the ongoing inflation and deflation cycle in Svartsengi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong earthquake in Brennisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano on 18th August 2025&#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":[149,10,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breinnisteinsfjoll","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179","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=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14183,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions\/14183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}