{"id":2743,"date":"2012-07-08T21:40:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2012-07-08T21:40:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:40:51","slug":"minor-earthquake-swarm-in-katla-volcano-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake swarm in Katla volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday is not quiet when it comes to earthquake activity in Iceland. Earlier today a small earthquake swarm started in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1702-03=\" target=\"_blank\">Katla volcano<\/a>. The largest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude 2.3 according to the automatic SIL system. The largest earthquake did appear clearly on Skei\u00f0fl\u00f6t and Heklubygg\u00f0 geophone stations. But Skei\u00f0fl\u00f6t geophone station is closest to the area where this earthquake swarm was taking place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708_1915.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708_1915.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"120708_1915\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708_1915.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708_1915-252x300.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake swarm in Katla volcano. <em>Copyright of this picture belongs to Iceland Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708.174810.sktz_.psn_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708.174810.sktz_.psn_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"120708.174810.sktz.psn\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708.174810.sktz_.psn_.gif 800w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708.174810.sktz_.psn_-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake trace on Skei\u00f0fl\u00f6t geophone station. This is filtered at 1Hz. I have not located this earthquake trace (no P and S wave markers). <em>This image is released under Creative Commons Licence. Please see CC Licence page for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708.174900.hkbz_.psn_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708.174900.hkbz_.psn_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"120708.174900.hkbz.psn\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708.174900.hkbz_.psn_.gif 800w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120708.174900.hkbz_.psn_-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake trace from Heklubygg\u00f0 geophone station. This is filtered at 1Hz. I have not located this earthquake trace (no P and S wave markers). <em>This image is released under Creative Commons Licence. Please see CC Licence page for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to know what happens next in Katla volcano. But it is monitored heavily, so if anything happens. It is going to show up almost in real time on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GPS monitoring of Ice cauldron on M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the news on R\u00fav yesterday (07.07.2012) they did tell about real time GPS monitoring of ice cauldron in M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. But it is hoped that with this real time GPS monitoring they can give out warning sooner when a ice cauldron empties it self of the water it holds.<\/p>\n<p>The news about this can be found here on R\u00fav News in Icelandic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/gps-taeki-komid-i-sigketilinn\" target=\"_blank\">GPS-t\u00e6ki komi\u00f0 \u00ed sigketilinn<\/a> (R\u00fav.is, Icelandic, video)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday is not quiet when it comes to earthquake activity in Iceland. Earlier today a small earthquake swarm started in Katla volcano. The largest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude 2.3 according to the automatic SIL system. The largest earthquake did appear clearly on Skei\u00f0fl\u00f6t and Heklubygg\u00f0 geophone stations. But Skei\u00f0fl\u00f6t geophone station &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor earthquake swarm in Katla 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":[10,5,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}