{"id":6297,"date":"2016-06-30T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2016-06-30T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:07:25","slug":"deep-earthquakes-in-root-of-eyjafjallajokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6297","title":{"rendered":"Deep earthquakes in root of Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (30-June-2016) three earthquakes took place in the root system of <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372020\" target=\"_blank\">Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano I <em>think<\/em>. The most depth for those earthquakes was 14,3 km and the most shallow one 1,3 km. The largest magnitude was 1,1 the other two earthquakes had the magnitude of 0,7. Nothing to worry about magnitude wise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160630_2055.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160630_2055.png\" alt=\"160630_2055\" width=\"540\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160630_2055.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160630_2055-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity close to Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano (three yellow dots). <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano extends to this area, however at this area there are no surface craters. If there where they are long lost due to erosion. Unlike many other volcanoes, Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano does not have an extensive fissure swarm extending outwards for it, that should limit the path the magma can travel in theory. While I am <strong>not expecting any type of eruption<\/strong> from Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano in near future. If this earthquake activity continues I might have to review that outlook. I don&#8217;t expect this earthquake activity to continue, since next eruption in Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano won&#8217;t happen (based on my model) until the year 2199 at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>It is also question of this earthquake activity belongs to <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372010\" target=\"_blank\">Vestmannaeyjar<\/a> volcano system. Over the past few years deep earthquakes have been taking place there at regular time. Not many, just one or two at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (30-June-2016) three earthquakes took place in the root system of Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano I think. The most depth for those earthquakes was 14,3 km and the most shallow one 1,3 km. The largest magnitude was 1,1 the other two earthquakes had the magnitude of 0,7. Nothing to worry about magnitude wise. The earthquake activity close &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deep earthquakes in root of Eyjafjallaj\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":[10,4,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-eyjafjallajokull","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297","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=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}