{"id":4709,"date":"2014-08-18T01:09:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2014-08-18T01:27:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:27:27","slug":"magnitude-33-earthquake-in-kverkfjoll-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4709","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 3,3 earthquake in Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A minor earthquake swarm took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373050\" target=\"_blank\">Kverkfj\u00f6ll<\/a> volcano today (17-August-2014). This earthquake swarm might have been triggered by the earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano that is next to it, that is however not confirmed and can be considered a speculation. Since connections between volcanoes is difficult to prove. The earthquake had the magnitude of 3,3 and depth of 9,5 km. This earthquake was felt by summer tourists in the area of Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140817_2155.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140817_2155.jpeg\" alt=\"140817_2155\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140817_2155.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140817_2155-271x300.jpeg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe green star in the Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano system shows the location of the earthquake. Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano are located were the &#8220;W&#8221; shape of the Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier appears. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No other activity has been detected from Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano today and that volcano appears to be quiet, even if it has a noise neighbour at the moment. I am not expecting more activity in Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano, but it cannot be ruled out at this moment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update at 23:27 UTC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A minor earthquake swarm took place in Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano today (17-August-2014). This earthquake swarm might have been triggered by the earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano that is next to it, that is however not confirmed and can be considered a speculation. Since connections between volcanoes is difficult to prove. The earthquake had the magnitude of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4709\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude 3,3 earthquake in Kverkfj\u00f6ll volcano&#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":[10,50,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-kverkfjoll","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","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=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}