{"id":3060,"date":"2012-10-05T22:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T20:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2012-10-05T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T21:02:00","slug":"magnitude-3-8-earthquake-in-breinnisteinsfjoll-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3060","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 3.8 earthquake in Breinnisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earthquake with the magnitude of 3.8 took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1701-04=\" target=\"_blank\">Breinnisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano<\/a> at 19:42 UTC. This earthquake was felt in Reykjav\u00edk and nearby area. Many aftershocks have followed this earthquake. Most of them are however below 2.0 in magnitude. There was also pre-earthquake activity before the magnitude 3.8 earthquake did take place. Most of those earthquakes where below 2.0 in magnitude. Last month an earthquake with the magnitude 4.3 took place in this same area. Earthquake activity is currently ongoing with smaller earthquakes for the time being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121005_2030.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121005_2030.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"121005_2030\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121005_2030.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121005_2030-300x222.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGreen star marks the place where the magnitude 3.8 earthquake took place. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So far there is nothing to suggests that current earthquake activity is nothing but tectonic. But this area is a riftzone. So there are earthquake swarm often take place there without them being related to any volcano activity in this area. This earthquake swarm appears clearly on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simnet.is\/jonfr500\/earthquake\/tremoren.htm\" target=\"_blank\">geophone network<\/a> in Iceland. I am going to continue to monitor this earthquake activity. As more strong earthquakes in this area can take place in the next few hours to days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic news about this earthquake activity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/jardskjalfti-upp-a-38-i-blafjollum\" target=\"_blank\">Jar\u00f0skj\u00e1lfti upp \u00e1 3,8 \u00ed Bl\u00e1fj\u00f6llum<\/a> (R\u00fav.is)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2012\/10\/05\/jardskjalftar_vid_blafjoll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jar\u00f0skj\u00e1lftar vi\u00f0 Bl\u00e1fj\u00f6ll<\/a> (mbl.is)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visir.is\/jardskjalfti-i-blafjollum-\/article\/2012121009269\" target=\"_blank\">Jar\u00f0skj\u00e1lfti \u00ed Bl\u00e1fj\u00f6llum<\/a> (V\u00edsir.is)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2012\/10\/05\/skjalftinn_var_3_8_stig\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skj\u00e1lftinn var 3,8 stig<\/a> (mbl.is)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthquake with the magnitude of 3.8 took place in Breinnisteinsfj\u00f6ll volcano at 19:42 UTC. This earthquake was felt in Reykjav\u00edk and nearby area. Many aftershocks have followed this earthquake. Most of them are however below 2.0 in magnitude. There was also pre-earthquake activity before the magnitude 3.8 earthquake did take place. Most of those earthquakes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude 3.8 earthquake in Breinnisteinsfj\u00f6ll 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":[149,10,40,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breinnisteinsfjoll","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","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=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}