{"id":5919,"date":"2015-12-11T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5919"},"modified":"2015-12-11T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T14:26:20","slug":"earthquake-swarm-south-west-of-langjokull-volcano-prestahnukur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5919","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm south-west of Langj\u00f6kull volcano (Prestahn\u00fakur)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (10-December-2015) a earthquake swarm started in south-west Langj\u00f6kull (<a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371070\" target=\"_blank\">Prestahn\u00fakur<\/a> volcano [Wikipedia page <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prestahn%C3%BAkur\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>]). Currently the earthquake swarm is ongoing. This is a slow earthquake swarm so far, not creating many earthquake over period of one hour. Largest earthquake so far had the magnitude of 3,2. Other earthquakes have been smaller, but many earthquakes are over 2,5 in magnitude. The largest earthquake was felt in nearby town of Hvanneyri and possibly other farms close to the location where the earthquake swarm is taking place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151211_1315.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151211_1315.png\" alt=\"151211_1315\" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151211_1315.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151211_1315-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm in south Langj\u00f6kull volcano (Prestahn\u00fakur). The earthquake swarm is located in one spot. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This earthquake activity is appearing on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonfr.com\/webicorders\/tremoren.htm\" target=\"_blank\">geophones<\/a> when it comes to earthquakes over magnitude 1,9. Every 10 to 20 years this area has earthquake swarms that creates earthquakes with magnitude 4,0 and above. Last such earthquake swarm was something over 10 years ago if my memory is correct. At the moment there is nothing suggesting that eruption might happen at this volcano any time soon. Last eruption took place 3500BCE (GVP information).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (10-December-2015) a earthquake swarm started in south-west Langj\u00f6kull (Prestahn\u00fakur volcano [Wikipedia page here]). Currently the earthquake swarm is ongoing. This is a slow earthquake swarm so far, not creating many earthquake over period of one hour. Largest earthquake so far had the magnitude of 3,2. Other earthquakes have been smaller, but many earthquakes are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5919\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm south-west of Langj\u00f6kull volcano (Prestahn\u00fakur)&#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":[10,55,40,107,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-langjokull-glacier-south","category-monitoring","category-prestahnukur","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919","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=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5923,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}