{"id":6371,"date":"2016-09-07T21:55:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T21:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2016-09-07T21:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T21:55:42","slug":"deep-earthquake-activity-in-bardarbunga-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6371","title":{"rendered":"Deep earthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (06-September-2016) and today (07-September-2016) deep earthquake activity happened in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano system. Most depth was at 25,9km in Tr\u00f6lladyngja, it is one of several deep earthquakes that have happened in that area. Few earthquakes at depth of 20,8 km took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano (outside of the caldera).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160907_2120.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160907_2120.png\" alt=\"160907_2120\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160907_2120.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160907_2120-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe deep earthquakes on this image are at south-east to B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga (in the direction of Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn, north-east of Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn) and in Tr\u00f6lladyngja (one blue dot). <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Iceland earthquakes at this depth only happens due to movement of magma. Crust stresses do have effects at this depth far as I know. At the moment no magnitude 3,0 earthquakes have happened in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga, that might be unusual since normally after a swarm of deep earthquake few strong earthquakes happens in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga. That has at time of writing of this article not happened. If that happens remains to be seen. I got the feeling there might be something more in the works, but I&#8217;m going to wait and see what is going on now. At least wait for a word from Iceland Met Office about what is going on, if anything is going on at all.<\/p>\n<p>All that can be done now is to wait for what happens next. (This is what geology is mostly about, endless waiting for something to happen.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (06-September-2016) and today (07-September-2016) deep earthquake activity happened in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano system. Most depth was at 25,9km in Tr\u00f6lladyngja, it is one of several deep earthquakes that have happened in that area. Few earthquakes at depth of 20,8 km took place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano (outside of the caldera). The deep earthquakes on this image &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deep earthquake activity 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":[7,10,9,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-earthquakes","category-harmonic-tremors","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","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=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}