{"id":3414,"date":"2013-02-16T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2013-02-16T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T17:31:32","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-torfajokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3414","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (16.02.2013) at 15:11 UTC an earthquake swarm started in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1702-05=\" target=\"_blank\">Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano<\/a>. This is so far small earthquake swarm. With largest earthquake only having magnitude 2.6 (automatic result). Depth of this earthquake swarm is around 2 to 4 km. This earthquake swarm is taking place inside the volcano. So they might be magma related. But it is hard to know that for sure at the moment. This might just be normal tectonic earthquakes in this area. Earthquakes are common in this volcano. But major swarm activity does not seem to be for some reason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130216_1710.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130216_1710.jpeg\" alt=\"130216_1710\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130216_1710.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/130216_1710-252x300.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano. The earthquakes are the red dots on this image. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is hard to know exactly what happens next. But most often the earthquake activity in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano stops after few hours. Last documented eruption in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano took place in the year 1477 according to Global volcanism program (GVP). This earthquake activity appears clearly on my Heklubygg\u00f0 geophone and Skei\u00f0fl\u00f6t geophone. The web site for my webicorders can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonfr.com\/webicorders\/tremoren.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (16.02.2013) at 15:11 UTC an earthquake swarm started in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano. This is so far small earthquake swarm. With largest earthquake only having magnitude 2.6 (automatic result). Depth of this earthquake swarm is around 2 to 4 km. This earthquake swarm is taking place inside the volcano. So they might be magma related. But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Torfaj\u00f6kull 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":[10,57,25,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-swarm","category-torfajokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","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=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}