{"id":5788,"date":"2015-08-18T00:54:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T00:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5788"},"modified":"2015-08-18T00:54:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T00:54:32","slug":"deep-earthquake-activity-in-katla-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5788","title":{"rendered":"Deep earthquake activity in Katla volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (17-August-2015) a swarm of small earthquakes took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372030\" target=\"_blank\">Katla<\/a> volcano. This type of activity has been happening place this summer and has been happening for several years now. The reason for this is that magma is pushing or moving in the magma chamber of Katla volcano.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150817_2320.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150817_2320.png\" alt=\"150817_2320\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150817_2320.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150817_2320-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Katla volcano, the cluster of earthquakes is the deep earthquake activity. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dept of this earthquake swarm was around 27 &#8211; 18 km. Meaning it was taking place deep inside the magma chamber of Katla volcano. No other activity has been detected at Katla volcano today. This type of earthquake activity might continue for next few days to weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (17-August-2015) a swarm of small earthquakes took place in Katla volcano. This type of activity has been happening place this summer and has been happening for several years now. The reason for this is that magma is pushing or moving in the magma chamber of Katla volcano. Earthquake activity in Katla volcano, the cluster &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deep earthquake activity in Katla 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":[10,5,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788","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=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}