{"id":3473,"date":"2013-03-16T17:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2013-03-16T17:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:46:43","slug":"minor-earthquake-swarm-in-skjaldbreid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake swarm in Skjaldbrei\u00f0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the night a small earthquake swarm started in Skjaldbrei\u00f0 south of Langj\u00f6kull glacier (might be part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1701-07=\" target=\"_blank\">Presthnj\u00fakar volcano<\/a>). This earthquake swarm is minor. With largest earthquake only being magnitude 1.9. While this is an minor earthquake swarm there seems to be more activity taking place then appears on reviewed and automatic SIL map. The reason for that is the earthquakes in questions are small to be located by three or more SIL stations in the area. While this unseen earthquake activity does not appear on Icelandic Meteorological Office maps it can be seen on the SIL station closest to the earthquake locations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/130316_1600.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/130316_1600.jpeg\" alt=\"130316_1600\" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/130316_1600.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/130316_1600-291x300.jpeg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLocation of the earthquake swarm in Skjaldbrei\u00f0. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/asb.svd_.16.03.2013.16.08.utc_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/asb.svd_.16.03.2013.16.08.utc_.gif\" alt=\"asb.svd.16.03.2013.16.08.utc\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3475\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nActivity at the end of this tremor plot suggests more earthquakes are taking place. But they are not being located as they are not detected on three or more SIL stations. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earthquake activity is common in this area. Since it is on the tectonic plate boundaries in Iceland. It is difficult to know how this earthquake swarm is going to behave in the next few hours. But so far it has stopped for few hours before continuing again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night a small earthquake swarm started in Skjaldbrei\u00f0 south of Langj\u00f6kull glacier (might be part of Presthnj\u00fakar volcano). This earthquake swarm is minor. With largest earthquake only being magnitude 1.9. While this is an minor earthquake swarm there seems to be more activity taking place then appears on reviewed and automatic SIL map. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor earthquake swarm in Skjaldbrei\u00f0&#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":[10,155,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-skjaldbreid","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","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=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}