{"id":5386,"date":"2015-01-13T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2015-01-13T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:26:08","slug":"new-earthquake-swarm-in-tungafellsjokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5386","title":{"rendered":"New earthquake swarm in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New earthquake swarm started in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373040\" target=\"_blank\">Tungafellsj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano earlier today (13-January-2015). The earthquakes start at 13 km depth and go up to around 2 km depth far as I can tell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150113_2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150113_2025.png\" alt=\"150113_2025\" width=\"540\" height=\"611\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150113_2025.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150113_2025-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano for the last 48 hours. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am having problems knowing at the moment if this earthquake swarm is growing or slowing down, at the moment however it appears to be steady in number of earthquakes taking place at the moment. Largest earthquake that has taken place in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano had the magnitude of 3,1. More strong earthquakes are to be expected. Some of this activity can be traced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano eruption and stress changes it is creating in nearby volcanoes. This is just half the story, since from the year 2013 there have been deep earthquakes (20 &#8211; 30 km depth) been taking place in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano. Suggesting that magma had already at that time started to move into the volcano at depth. It remains unclear if an eruption is going to take place in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano, it cannot be ruled out at this moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3446\" target=\"_blank\">Deep earthquake swarm in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano<\/a> (jonfr.com, 2013)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New earthquake swarm started in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano earlier today (13-January-2015). The earthquakes start at 13 km depth and go up to around 2 km depth far as I can tell. Earthquake activity in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano for the last 48 hours. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office. I am having problems knowing at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New earthquake swarm in Tungafellsj\u00f6kull 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":[24,10,64,40,57,140,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-tungnafellsjokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386","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=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5388,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions\/5388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}