{"id":513,"date":"2011-01-30T15:07:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=513"},"modified":"2011-01-30T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T15:26:08","slug":"glacier-quakes-in-vatnajokull-following-a-lot-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Glacier quakes in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier following a lot of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quiet time in Iceland continues with few to no earthquakes. Besides the strong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emsc-csem.org\/Earthquake\/earthquake.php?id=207777\">Mw6.2 earthquake<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1706-01=\">Jan Mayen Island<\/a> (Belongs to Norway, regional to Iceland geological area in my personal view) there is nothing happening.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of 25th of January there where ice-quakes in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier. This appears to have happened due to heavy rain in that area from the 21st of January. But that can make the glacier move suddenly and that makes the ice-quakes. Icelandic Met Office has some pictures of this activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tremkreskr20110125.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tremkreskr20110125-300x191.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"tremkreskr20110125\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tremkreskr20110125-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tremkreskr20110125.png 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/hraun.vedur.is\/ja\/viku\/2011\/vika_04\/index.html#mark\">Picture<\/a> is from Icelandic Met Office web site. Copyright belongs to them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ice-quakes in this plot appear as spikes. As can be seen a lot of ice-quakes took place in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier during the heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/skr20110125_0438.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/skr20110125_0438-300x205.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"skr20110125_0438\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/skr20110125_0438-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/skr20110125_0438.png 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/hraun.vedur.is\/ja\/viku\/2011\/vika_04\/index.html#mark\">Picture<\/a> is from Icelandic Met Office web site. Copyright belongs to them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A high detail of the ice-quakes. As can be seen, the ice-quakes look different then normal earthquakes. This is because ice is not as dense then rock and is under less pressure, and therefor breaks in a different way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quiet time in Iceland continues with few to no earthquakes. Besides the strong Mw6.2 earthquake in Jan Mayen Island (Belongs to Norway, regional to Iceland geological area in my personal view) there is nothing happening. On the night of 25th of January there where ice-quakes in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier. This appears to have happened due &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glacier quakes in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier following a lot of rain&#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":[52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glacier-quakes","category-vatnajokull-glacier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}