{"id":3502,"date":"2013-03-20T18:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2013-03-20T18:53:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:53:53","slug":"earthquake-swarm-on-the-reykjanes-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (20.03.2013) at 10:51 UTC an earthquake swarm started on the Reykjanes ridge. This earthquake swarm was about 850 km away from Reykjav\u00edk so it was not felt. This also gives little information on what is happening in this location. Since the depth of the ocean at this location is around 2 to 3 km. The largest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude of 4.8 according to automatic EMSC results. The range of magnitude that was detected is from 4.6 to 4.8. The estimated depth is around 10 km. But that might not be correct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/308986.regional.svd_.20.03.2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/308986.regional.svd_.20.03.2013.jpg\" alt=\"308986.regional.svd.20.03.2013\" width=\"907\" height=\"858\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/308986.regional.svd_.20.03.2013.jpg 907w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/308986.regional.svd_.20.03.2013-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe location of the strongest earthquake in this swarm on the Reykjanes ridge. Copyright of this image belongs to EMSC.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the strongest earthquake in this swarm can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emsc-csem.org\/Earthquake\/earthquake.php?id=308986#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, on the EMSC web site. I do not know if activity is going to continue in this place. This location is just too remote to know that for sure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (20.03.2013) at 10:51 UTC an earthquake swarm started on the Reykjanes ridge. This earthquake swarm was about 850 km away from Reykjav\u00edk so it was not felt. This also gives little information on what is happening in this location. Since the depth of the ocean at this location is around 2 to 3 km. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge&#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":[10,40,23,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","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=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}