{"id":3048,"date":"2012-10-03T21:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2020-07-05T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:38:03","slug":"magnitude-3-1-earthquake-in-katla-volcano-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 3.1 earthquake in Katla volcano this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 08:26 UTC this morning a magnitude 3.1 earthquake took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1702-03=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katla volcano<\/a>. There was minor pre-earthquake activity before the magnitude 3.1 earthquake took place, the depth of this earthquake was around 100 meters (0.1 km). There was also some minor aftershock activity following this earthquake. No change in harmonic tremor took place following this earthquake. So there is a good chance this was just part of normal autumn activity in Katla volcano. This earthquake activity did appear clearly on my geophone network. It can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simnet.is\/jonfr500\/earthquake\/tremoren.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> on my geophone network web page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003.082405.sktz_.psn_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003.082405.sktz_.psn_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"121003.082405.sktz.psn\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003.082405.sktz_.psn_.gif 800w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003.082405.sktz_.psn_-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake as it did appear on my geophone station in Skei\u00f0fl\u00f6t. <em>This image is released under Creative Commons licence. See CC licence page for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003.082500.hkbz_.psn_-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003.082500.hkbz_.psn_-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8511\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake as it did appear on my geophone station in Heklubygg\u00f0. <em>This image is released under Creative Commons licence. See CC licence page for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003_1830.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003_1830.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"121003_1830\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003_1830.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121003_1830-252x300.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe location of the earthquake in Katla volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More earthquakes like this should be expected in Katla volcano. But it is impossible to know if there is going to be an eruption in Katla volcano any time soon. But so far everything is quiet in Katla volcano. Besides occasional earthquake swarm that is taking place in Katla volcano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic news about this earthquake activity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/jardskjalfti-i-kotlu-32-ad-staerd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jar\u00f0skj\u00e1lfti \u00ed K\u00f6tlu &#8211; 3,2 a\u00f0 st\u00e6r\u00f0<\/a> (R\u00fav.is)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2012\/10\/03\/3_2_stiga_skjalfti_i_kotlu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3,2 stiga skj\u00e1lfti \u00ed K\u00f6tlu<\/a> (mbl.is)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visir.is\/snarpur-skjalfti-i-kotlu\/article\/2012121009650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snarpur skj\u00e1lfti \u00ed K\u00f6tlu<\/a> (V\u00edsir.is)<\/p>\n<p><em>Blog post updated at 19:34 UTC on 03.10.2012<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Blog post updated at 05:45 UTC on 04.10.2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 08:26 UTC this morning a magnitude 3.1 earthquake took place in Katla volcano. There was minor pre-earthquake activity before the magnitude 3.1 earthquake took place, the depth of this earthquake was around 100 meters (0.1 km). There was also some minor aftershock activity following this earthquake. No change in harmonic tremor took place &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude 3.1 earthquake in Katla volcano this morning&#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-3048","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\/3048","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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8512,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/8512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}