{"id":5635,"date":"2015-04-30T20:13:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2015-04-30T20:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:13:18","slug":"dyke-intrusion-in-bardarbunga-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5635","title":{"rendered":"Dyke intrusion in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (30-April-2015) a minor dyke intrusion took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano. This dyke intrusion was small and appears to be over for now. This does show that current activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is not over even if the eruption in Holuhraun has ended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150430_1845.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150430_1845.png\" alt=\"150430_1845\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150430_1845.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150430_1845-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe dyke intrusion in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is a small cluster of earthquakes, it can be found on this image as three orange dots and one red dot. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquake that appeared in the following earthquake swarm took place had the magnitude of 2,1. Depth of this earthquake swarm was around 17 km and going up to 5,3 km. Nothing suggest that at current time this dyke has reached the surface and no harmonic tremor was detected during the time this dyke intrusion took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. More dyke related activity should be expected in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano in next few months to years. Other earthquakes in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano are due to stress changes in the crust due to deflation the volcano came under during the eruption in Holuhraun, total subsidence of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano during that eruption has been measured 62 meters. Current rifting activity is not over in this area even if no eruptions are taking place at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (30-April-2015) a minor dyke intrusion took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. This dyke intrusion was small and appears to be over for now. This does show that current activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is not over even if the eruption in Holuhraun has ended. The dyke intrusion in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is a small cluster of earthquakes, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5635\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dyke intrusion in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga 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":[7,24,10,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","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=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}