{"id":5854,"date":"2015-10-23T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2015-10-23T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T22:02:11","slug":"rare-earthquakes-in-hreppar-micro-plate-and-other-activity-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5854","title":{"rendered":"Rare earthquakes in Hreppar micro-plate and other activity in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to family obligations I won&#8217;t be able to write a long post until Sunday (I hope). So here is a short overview of activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hreppar micro-plate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rare swarm of earthquakes took place on the Hreppar micro-plate today. All of the earthquakes had less magnitude than 1,0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151023_2150.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151023_2150.png\" alt=\"151023_2150\" width=\"540\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151023_2150.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151023_2150-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHreppar micro-plate earthquake activity on its edge with the American plate. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Icelandic Seismic Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A swarm of earthquakes took place in SISZ this week. Largest earthquake had the magnitude of 2,5 and was felt in nearby populated areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151021_2020.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151021_2020.png\" alt=\"151021_2020\" width=\"540\" height=\"751\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151021_2020.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151021_2020-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake swarm on SISZ. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week a magnitude 3,2 earthquake took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano. This don&#8217;t appear to be deflation earthquakes, they rather look like inflation earthquakes. I don&#8217;t have time to write about it now, so details have to wait for now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151017_0120.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151017_0120.png\" alt=\"151017_0120\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151017_0120.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/151017_0120-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe magnitude 3,2 earthquake in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope to write more on Sunday if I have time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to family obligations I won&#8217;t be able to write a long post until Sunday (I hope). So here is a short overview of activity. Hreppar micro-plate A rare swarm of earthquakes took place on the Hreppar micro-plate today. All of the earthquakes had less magnitude than 1,0. Hreppar micro-plate earthquake activity on its edge &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rare earthquakes in Hreppar micro-plate and other activity in Iceland&#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":[7,10,179,40,45,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-earthquakes","category-hreppar-micro-plate","category-monitoring","category-sisz","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}