{"id":5793,"date":"2015-08-25T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2017-11-18T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T15:01:03","slug":"earthquake-in-kerlingafjoll-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake in Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kerlingarfj%C3%B6ll\" target=\"_blank\">Kerlingafj\u00f6ll<\/a> volcano (no GVP profile) did have a earthquake today (25-August-2015). This was just one earthquake. Not of any special magnitude. Earthquakes are rare in Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano and they don&#8217;t have any known historical eruptions. This one earthquake had the magnitude of 2,2 and depth of 11,1 km.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150825_1405.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150825_1405.png\" alt=\"150825_1405\" width=\"540\" height=\"611\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150825_1405.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150825_1405-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA rare earthquake in Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano. Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano are located south-west of <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371090\" target=\"_blank\">Hofsj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes appear to be extremely rare in Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano. There were no earthquakes during the large earthquakes in 2000 and 2008 from SISZ due to stress changes that follows such large earthquakes. Since I started monitoring earthquakes in the current form this is the first earthquake I&#8217;ve seen in Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano and that is over 9 year period. In that time, it is worth noting more SIL stations have been added, making the network more sensitive to smaller earthquakes around Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missing person<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Body of person unknown was found in Iceland on 17-August-2015. The remains where of a male that was 186cm, with blond\/white shoulder long hair, in a hood that had &#8220;quicksilver&#8221; written on it. He was also wearing a shoe that had a star on the side. According to latest news the police now believe this might be a young French man that did come to Iceland in the summer of 2014, he did go to H\u00f6fn \u00ed Hornafir\u00f0i in October-2014 (date unknown). He never left Iceland. This is being investigated by authorities in Iceland in cooperation with authorities in France. If you have any details or more information please contact the police in Iceland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logreglan.is\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Latest Icelandic news about this can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/kom-til-hafnar-i-hornafirdi-i-oktober\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> in Icelandic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Article updated at 22:36 UTC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano (no GVP profile) did have a earthquake today (25-August-2015). This was just one earthquake. Not of any special magnitude. Earthquakes are rare in Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano and they don&#8217;t have any known historical eruptions. This one earthquake had the magnitude of 2,2 and depth of 11,1 km. A rare earthquake in Kerlingafj\u00f6ll volcano. Kerlingafj\u00f6ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake in Kerlingafj\u00f6ll 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":[10,110,64,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-kerlingarfjoll","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","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=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}