{"id":14287,"date":"2026-06-25T01:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:11:59","slug":"magnitude-mw33-earthquake-just-south-of-presthnukar-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14287","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude Mw3,3 earthquake just south of Presthn\u00fakar volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (24-June 2026) an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,3 took place just south of Presthn\u00faar volcano. This earthquake was part of an ongoing earthquake swarm in this area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14289\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14289 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260625_0050.png\" alt=\"Green star just south-west of Presthn\u00fakar volcano. Along with red dots that show smaller earthquakes in the same area.\" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260625_0050.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260625_0050-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity south west of Presthn\u00fakar volcano in Langj\u00f6kull glacier. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Based on earthquake data. I believe this earthquake activity is because of magma movement in the crust. I don&#8217;t think this is going to result in a eruption in this area. At the moment, the earthquake activity is too small for that too happen. This type of earthquake activity can go on for months and sometimes years before it stops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (24-June 2026) an earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,3 took place just south of Presthn\u00faar volcano. This earthquake was part of an ongoing earthquake swarm in this area. Based on earthquake data. I believe this earthquake activity is because of magma movement in the crust. I don&#8217;t think this is going to result in a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude Mw3,3 earthquake just south of Presthn\u00fakar 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":[10,195,55,64,40,56,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-langjokull","category-langjokull-glacier-south","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-presthnjukar","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287","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=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14290,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}