{"id":5755,"date":"2015-07-23T23:54:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T23:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2015-07-23T23:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T23:54:33","slug":"minor-earthquake-swarm-in-torfajokull-volcano-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5755","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake swarm in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since last weekend there has been a minor earthquake swarm taking place in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372050\" target=\"_blank\">Torfaj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. This appears to be normal earthquake activity for this volcano, it often has this type of swarm activity, mostly due to changes in hot springs and hydrothermal activity in the volcano.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150723_2240.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150723_2240.png\" alt=\"150723_2240\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150723_2240.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150723_2240-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTorfaj\u00f6kull volcano is located north of Katla volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Meteorological Office.<\/p>\n<p>This is normal earthquake activity in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano as it looks at the moment. Since this has happened before, this earthquake swarm might last for few more days to weeks. It is difficult to know for sure. New hot springs might open up and old one close while this is taking place, so people who are travelling in this area need to be aware of that risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since last weekend there has been a minor earthquake swarm taking place in Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano. This appears to be normal earthquake activity for this volcano, it often has this type of swarm activity, mostly due to changes in hot springs and hydrothermal activity in the volcano. Torfaj\u00f6kull volcano is located north of Katla volcano. Copyright &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5755\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor earthquake swarm in Torfaj\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":[10,64,40,57,25,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-torfajokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","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=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}