{"id":4481,"date":"2014-05-09T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T12:33:45","slug":"earthquake-swarm-on-the-reykjanes-ridge-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4481","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake swarm that has been taking place on the Reykjanes Ridge for the past few days did increase today (09-May-2014). The largest earthquake had the magnitude of 3,6 with the depth of 15,6 km. So far around 70 earthquakes have been recorded in this area. The earthquake swarm is taking place in area considerable distance from land and next populated area, so it might not be felt at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/140509_1205.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/140509_1205.jpeg\" alt=\"140509_1205\" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/140509_1205.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/140509_1205-300x247.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes Ridge. Green star marks the magnitude 3,6 earthquake. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/140509.101700.hkbz_.psn_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/140509.101700.hkbz_.psn_.gif\" alt=\"140509.101700.hkbz.psn\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4483\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe magnitude 3,6 earthquake on the Reykjanes Ridge as it did appear on my Heklubygg\u00f0 geophone. <em>This image is released under Creative Commons Licence. Please see CC Licence page for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to know for sure what is taking place on the Reykjanes Ridge. There are clues this might be due to magma movement at depth, possibly dike intrusion. So far there are no signs of eruption taking place at this location at current point in time. It is possible to see any earthquake that takes place (at least large one) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonfr.com\/webicorders\/tremoren.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> on my webicorder website. It is also possible to see earthquake activity in Iceland at Icelandic Meteorological Office <a href=\"http:\/\/en.vedur.is\/earthquakes-and-volcanism\/earthquakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Donation notice: Please remember to donate to support my work. I have just social welfare income and it is quite low. More details can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4440\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Thanks for the support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake swarm that has been taking place on the Reykjanes Ridge for the past few days did increase today (09-May-2014). The largest earthquake had the magnitude of 3,6 with the depth of 15,6 km. So far around 70 earthquakes have been recorded in this area. The earthquake swarm is taking place in area considerable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4481\" 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":[24,10,64,40,23,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","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=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}