{"id":6159,"date":"2016-03-24T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6159"},"modified":"2016-03-24T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:32:00","slug":"minor-earthquake-activity-in-oraefajokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6159","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks there has been a slight increase in earthquakes in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. Due to glacier quake activity I&#8217;m only using earthquakes that have confirmed depth of 1,5 km or deeper. This earthquake activity is minor and doesn&#8217;t suggest that an eruption is imminent, it however does suggest that <em>something<\/em> is going on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160324_1900.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160324_1900.png\" alt=\"160324_1900\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160324_1900.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160324_1900-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano is to the south on this image (two red dots). <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This activity has a long history, it started happening in 2012 at the earliest that I know of and has been going on slowly since then. \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano did go from having no earthquakes and up to having two to five earthquakes a year. Sometimes more. There are clues in this activity that magma might be starting to push it self up into the volcano, but at the moment it doesn&#8217;t seems to be going far up into the volcano. Based on the current depth and low seismicity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. I don&#8217;t expect this to change any time soon. Since most of the time, at least for the moment there is little to no earthquake activity taking place in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks there has been a slight increase in earthquakes in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Due to glacier quake activity I&#8217;m only using earthquakes that have confirmed depth of 1,5 km or deeper. This earthquake activity is minor and doesn&#8217;t suggest that an eruption is imminent, it however does suggest that something is going &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6159\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull 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":[10,64,40,87,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-oraefajokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159","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=6159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}