{"id":4022,"date":"2013-10-18T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2013-10-18T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:10:00","slug":"possible-volcano-eruption-in-the-year-2002-off-the-coast-of-north-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4022","title":{"rendered":"Possible volcano eruption in the year 2002 off the coast of north Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donation notice:<\/strong> If you can donate please do so. It helps me run this website and keeping up my work here. Information on how to donate can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?page_id=212\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Thanks! \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Few years ago there was an strong earthquake swarm 45 km north of Gr\u00edmsey island, the earthquake swarm location was between Gr\u00edmsey island and Kolbeinsey island. The strongest earthquake in that swarm had the magnitude of 5,5. It&#8217;s now considered a possibility that an minor eruption took place at this location when this earthquake swarm took place in the year 2002. This is according to an recent study into the volcano activity in this area. Since this part of the rift zone where volcanic activity continues where the Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone ends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/unnamed.volcano.svd_.18-October-2013.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/unnamed.volcano.svd_.18-October-2013-1024x621.jpeg\" alt=\"unnamed.volcano.svd.18-October-2013\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/unnamed.volcano.svd_.18-October-2013-1024x621.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/unnamed.volcano.svd_.18-October-2013-300x182.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nStoragrunn volcano. <em>Image from V\u00edsir.is news, copyright belongs to Brynd\u00eds Brandsd\u00f3ttir and other people connected to this work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This volcano is located at depth at this location so any minor eruption is not going to get noticed on the surface of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tfz.svd_.18-October-2013.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tfz.svd_.18-October-2013.gif\" alt=\"tfz.svd.18-October-2013\" width=\"614\" height=\"520\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4025\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm in this area in the <a href=\"http:\/\/hraun.vedur.is\/ja\/viku\/2002\/vika_38\/index.html#mark\" target=\"_blank\">year 2002<\/a> (vedur.is, Icelandic, images). Earthquakes larger than 3,0 are marked by green dots. <em>Copyright on this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Icelandic News about this. Beware Google Translate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visir.is\/vid-misstum-af-sidasta-eldgosi-vid-nordurland\/article\/2013131019077\" target=\"_blank\">Vi\u00f0 misstum af s\u00ed\u00f0asta eldgosi vi\u00f0 Nor\u00f0urland<\/a> (V\u00edsir.is, Icelandic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donation notice: If you can donate please do so. It helps me run this website and keeping up my work here. Information on how to donate can be found here. Thanks! \ud83d\ude42 Few years ago there was an strong earthquake swarm 45 km north of Gr\u00edmsey island, the earthquake swarm location was between Gr\u00edmsey island &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Possible volcano eruption in the year 2002 off the coast of north Iceland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,159,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monitoring","category-storagrunn","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","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=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}