{"id":14258,"date":"2026-05-13T01:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14258"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:25:33","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-hengill-volcano-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14258","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Hengill volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long period of very quiet time in Iceland. A earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,6 took place in Hengill volcano, close to an area called Eiturh\u00f3ll. This area has frequent earthquake activity related to tectonic movement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14260\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260513_0055.png\" alt=\"Earthquake swarm on top of the image with one green star showing the largest earthquake. Red dots showing smaller earthquakes are spread around.\" width=\"540\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260513_0055.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260513_0055-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake swarm in Hengill volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The largest earthquake started a small earthquake swarm that is currently ongoing at the writing of this article. I am not expecting more earthquake activity then has already happened at the writing of this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long period of very quiet time in Iceland. A earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,6 took place in Hengill volcano, close to an area called Eiturh\u00f3ll. This area has frequent earthquake activity related to tectonic movement. The largest earthquake started a small earthquake swarm that is currently ongoing at the writing of this article. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Hengill 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":[10,54,40,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-hengill","category-monitoring","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258","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=14258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14263,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14258\/revisions\/14263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}