{"id":14243,"date":"2026-03-12T22:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:27:43","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-torfajokull-volcano-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14243","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning (12-March 2026) at 11:47 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,7 took place in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14245\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14245 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260312_2200.png\" alt=\"Green star north of M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano. Along with few dots showing smaller earthquakes.\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260312_2200.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260312_2200-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A small earthquake swarm followed the main earthquake. There are no signs of magma movement in the area. But this area doesn&#8217;t erupt basalt lava, so it might be difficult to tell or know if there is lava on the move. Magma erupted in this area most of the time is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhyolite\" target=\"_blank\">Rhyolite<\/a>. Just detecting this type of magma movement might be difficult. There has been some minor inflation in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano, but it might have stopped few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning (12-March 2026) at 11:47 UTC an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,7 took place in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano. A small earthquake swarm followed the main earthquake. There are no signs of magma movement in the area. But this area doesn&#8217;t erupt basalt lava, so it might be difficult to tell or know if there is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Torfaj\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":[10,40,57,25,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-torfajokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","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=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14247,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions\/14247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}