{"id":5827,"date":"2015-09-21T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2015-09-21T23:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:15:22","slug":"increased-activity-in-bardarbunga-and-tungnafellsjokull-volcanoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5827","title":{"rendered":"Increased activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga and Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcanoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have the time or the energy to write a long article about what is going on in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga and Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcanoes. What I do know is that magma appears to be pressuring <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373040\" target=\"_blank\">Tungafellsj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano, creating earthquakes, the largest earthquakes so far have reached magnitude 2,9. Other earthquakes have been smaller. Some of the earthquakes appear volcanic in nature based on what I&#8217;m seeing on my geophones (at poor resolution at the moment).<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano there has also been earthquake activity today. I don&#8217;t know yet if its due to inflation or deflation of the magma system in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Largest earthquake today (21-September-2015) had the magnitude of 3,2. Other earthquakes have been smaller, this earthquake activity has been small so there is a chance this does not mean anything yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150921_2235.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150921_2235.png\" alt=\"150921_2235\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150921_2235.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150921_2235-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga and Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcanoes. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The activity in Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcano is likely to continue and might increase. I&#8217;m not sure what happens in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Working schedule:<\/strong> In September and until end of October I&#8217;m working Monday to Friday from 07:00 &#8211; ?? (Monday\/Wednesday\/Friday) and 10:00 &#8211; ?? (Tuesday\/Thursday). Due to the nature of the work (its a slaughterhouse work) I don&#8217;t have my mobile phones with me and therefor I don&#8217;t know what is going on if anything happens. The longest days are now in process and are going to last until second or third week of October I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have the time or the energy to write a long article about what is going on in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga and Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcanoes. What I do know is that magma appears to be pressuring Tungafellsj\u00f6kull volcano, creating earthquakes, the largest earthquakes so far have reached magnitude 2,9. Other earthquakes have been smaller. Some of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Increased activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga and Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcanoes&#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":[7,10,64,40,57,140,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","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\/5827","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=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5830,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions\/5830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}