{"id":6177,"date":"2016-04-08T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2016-04-08T13:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T13:40:04","slug":"magnitude-42-earthquake-in-bardarbunga-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6177","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4,2 earthquake in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after midnight of 8-April-2016 a magnitude 4,2 earthquake took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano. This earthquake activity was shallow, most depth was around 3 to 5 km. Few earthquakes took place at 7 to 11 km depth, suggesting a magma movement at depth. Nothing suggest that magma reached shallow depth this time around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160408_1240.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160408_1240.png\" alt=\"160408_1240\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160408_1240.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160408_1240-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second largest earthquake in this activity had the magnitude of 3,5 at the depth of 4,3 km. Other earthquakes in this swarm where smaller in magnitude at different depths. Magma did not reach the surface in this earthquake swarm, this appears to have been a movement of fault lines do to stress changes at depth due to magma inflow. I&#8217;m expecting continued earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano in coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations and move to Denmark<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want to remind people of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6164\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I also want to remind people to support my work with donations. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after midnight of 8-April-2016 a magnitude 4,2 earthquake took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. This earthquake activity was shallow, most depth was around 3 to 5 km. Few earthquakes took place at 7 to 11 km depth, suggesting a magma movement at depth. Nothing suggest that magma reached shallow depth this time around. The earthquake &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnitude 4,2 earthquake in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga 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":[7,24,10,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177","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=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6181,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}