{"id":3100,"date":"2012-10-20T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2012-10-20T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:51:35","slug":"earthquake-activity-update-on-20-10-2012-at-1424-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake activity update on 20.10.2012 at 14:51 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (20.10.2012) has been busy in terms of earthquake activity in Iceland. So I am expecting to write a second update later today on this activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hekla volcano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At 05:28 UTC there was an earthquake in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1702-07=\" target=\"_blank\">Hekla volcano<\/a>. This earthquake had the magnitude of ML1.1 with the depth   of 0.6 km. No other earthquakes have followed this single earthquake. What this means is impossible to know at this time. But so far everything remains quiet in Hekla volcano.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1320.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1320.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"121020_1320\" width=\"540\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1320.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1320-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake in Hekla volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earthquake activity continues in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1703-05=\" target=\"_blank\">Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano<\/a>. This earthquake activity is the result of dike intrusion into Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano. So far this earthquake activity is taking place in short burst of earthquake swarm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1345.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1345.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"121020_1345\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1345.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1345-271x300.jpeg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At 02:07 UTC earthquake activity did start in TFZ. Just off the coast of Iceland. This earthquake activity is taking place in area that last had earthquake swarm in <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2960\" target=\"_blank\">September<\/a>. I did cover that earthquake activity in details on this blog. So far the largest earthquakes in this area of TFZ have had the magnitude of ML2.9. This is purely tectonic earthquake activity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1420.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1420.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"121020_1420\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1420.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/121020_1420-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in TFZ. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to know what happens next in TFZ earthquake activity. But it likely going to continue for the next few hours to days like earlier. It is best to keep an eye on this earthquake activity. This earthquake activity also sometimes stops for few hours before it continues again. Most of this earthquake activity can be seen on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simnet.is\/jonfr500\/earthquake\/tremoren.htm\" target=\"_blank\">geophone network<\/a> web page.<\/p>\n<p>If anything major happens in this earthquake activity. I am going to post new blog post with updated information on that activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (20.10.2012) has been busy in terms of earthquake activity in Iceland. So I am expecting to write a second update later today on this activity. Hekla volcano At 05:28 UTC there was an earthquake in Hekla volcano. This earthquake had the magnitude of ML1.1 with the depth of 0.6 km. No other earthquakes have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake activity update on 20.10.2012 at 14:51 UTC&#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":[24,10,11,6,50,64,40,57,44,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-geophone-network","category-hekla","category-kverkfjoll","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-tfz","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","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=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}