{"id":1988,"date":"2012-01-03T00:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T00:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2012-01-03T00:53:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T00:53:41","slug":"hekla-volcano-is-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Hekla volcano is quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been seeing some rumors about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1702-07=\" target=\"_blank\">Hekla volcano<\/a> might be about to erupt. This is wrong. For the moment Hekla volcano is quiet as it has been since the last eruption in the year 2000. For few years Hekla volcano did erupt for about every 10 years. That might have change already. Nobody is sure on that now. But one thing is clear Hekla volcano is going to erupt one day. But when is always the question.<\/p>\n<p>People have been speculating on the earthquakes west of Hekla volcano. This earthquakes do not belong to Hekla volcano. They are part of activity in the SISZ (<a href=\"http:\/\/hraun.vedur.is\/ja\/prepared\/SouthIcelandEarthq2000\/node3.html\" target=\"_blank\">South Icelandic Seismic Zone<\/a>). Earthquakes in this area tectonic in nature, not volcanic. So in worst case, this earthquakes might be sign of new major earthquake preparing to take place some day in the future.<\/p>\n<p>For the moment however. Everything is quiet in Hekla volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been seeing some rumors about Hekla volcano might be about to erupt. This is wrong. For the moment Hekla volcano is quiet as it has been since the last eruption in the year 2000. For few years Hekla volcano did erupt for about every 10 years. That might have change already. Nobody is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hekla volcano is quiet&#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":[10,6,38,40,45,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-hekla","category-iceland","category-monitoring","category-sisz","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}