{"id":6062,"date":"2016-02-03T22:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2016-02-03T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:53:29","slug":"magnitude-39-earthquake-in-reykjanes-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6062","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 3,9 earthquake in Reykjanes peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at 19:50 UTC a magnitude 3,9 earthquake took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371030\" target=\"_blank\">Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk<\/a> volcano. This earthquake is not volcano related, this is a tectonic earthquake and has started a minor earthquake swarm in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk area. Other earthquakes so far have been small, with largest aftershock having the magnitude of 1,6. The magnitude 3,9 earthquake was felt in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and in the Reykjav\u00edk area (and nearby towns).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160203_2215.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160203_2215.png\" alt=\"160203_2215\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160203_2215.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160203_2215-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk volcano tonight. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This earthquake swarm is currently ongoing, but it doesn&#8217;t appear to be a strong or a highly active earthquake swarm at the moment. It&#8217;s unclear if that is going to change since it&#8217;s impossible to predict how this earthquake swarms behave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at 19:50 UTC a magnitude 3,9 earthquake took place in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk volcano. This earthquake is not volcano related, this is a tectonic earthquake and has started a minor earthquake swarm in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk area. Other earthquakes so far have been small, with largest aftershock having the magnitude of 1,6. The magnitude 3,9 earthquake was felt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude 3,9 earthquake in Reykjanes peninsula&#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":[10,40,42,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062","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=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6064,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions\/6064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}