{"id":3859,"date":"2013-09-05T01:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2013-09-05T01:18:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T23:18:30","slug":"earthquake-activity-in-several-volcanoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3859","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake activity in several volcanoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (04-September-2013) had some minor earthquake activity in several volcanoes in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier. All of this earthquakes were small and less than magnitude 3.0 in size. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The deepest earthquake activity was in Kverkfj\u00f6ll, with earthquakes at 31 km depth and 24 km depth. This deep earthquake activity is possible connected to magma movements since tectonic earthquakes are unlikely to take place this deep in the crust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gr\u00edmsfjall volcano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One earthquake was recorded in Gr\u00edmsfjall volcano, it was minor and shallow. This might even just be a glacier quake, rather than normal earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano did see two earthquake today, at the depth of 4 to 5 km. Both were small and tectonic in nature from the looks of it. Earthquakes are not common in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano so I am not sure why this increase has now taken place. It is worth noticing that sil network is now more sensitive in this area than before since new stations have been added in this area. This means that smaller earthquakes are now being detected than before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esjufj\u00f6ll volcano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esjufj\u00f6ll volcano had two earthquake, the third earthquake might be a ice-quake. I am not sure if it was an real earthquake or not. Esjufj\u00f6ll volcano normally do not have any earthquake activity, but few years ago an earthquake activity started with earthquakes that had magnitude of 2.5 to 3.0 so there is something going on in this volcano. What that might be I am not sure of yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130904_2225.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130904_2225.jpeg\" alt=\"130904_2225\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130904_2225.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130904_2225-271x300.jpeg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Kverkfj\u00f6ll, \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull, Esjufj\u00f6ll, Gr\u00edmsfjall volcanoes. All small earthquakes. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I do not expect anything major to take place in Vatnaj\u00f6kull volcano. Since the current quiet period in Iceland just seems to be ongoing as is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (04-September-2013) had some minor earthquake activity in several volcanoes in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier. All of this earthquakes were small and less than magnitude 3.0 in size. Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano The deepest earthquake activity was in Kverkfj\u00f6ll, with earthquakes at 31 km depth and 24 km depth. This deep earthquake activity is possible connected to magma movements &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake activity in several volcanoes&#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":[24,10,26,14,12,50,64,40,87,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-esjufjoll","category-grimsvotn-grimsfjall","category-hamarinn","category-kverkfjoll","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-oraefajokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","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=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}