{"id":6443,"date":"2016-10-06T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T09:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2016-10-06T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T09:50:35","slug":"increase-in-earthquake-activity-in-katla-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6443","title":{"rendered":"Increase in earthquake activity in Katla volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (6-October-2016) a magnitude 3,2 earthquake took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372030\" target=\"_blank\">Katla<\/a> volcano. This earthquake had smaller earthquake activity before it happened and after it took place. Currently bad weather in the Katla volcano area is preventing detection of the smallest earthquakes. That bad weather is going to last at least until tomorrow and then a new storm might arrive few hours later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161006_0930.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161006_0930.png\" alt=\"161006_0930\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161006_0930.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161006_0930-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity in Katla volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain in south Iceland has prevented a good reading on conductivity in M\u00falakv\u00edsl glacier river. Since freshwater mixing into the glacier water results in drop of conductivity with increase amount of water. This has also resulted in some glacier quake activity in M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Off-line warning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due to hurricane Matthews there is a risk of this website going off-line from tomorrow as the hurricane hits Florida and Orlando, where this website is hosted. I will take a backup of it later today just in case. At worst some comments might be lost and even some articles (if I update the website after I take my backup).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (6-October-2016) a magnitude 3,2 earthquake took place in Katla volcano. This earthquake had smaller earthquake activity before it happened and after it took place. Currently bad weather in the Katla volcano area is preventing detection of the smallest earthquakes. That bad weather is going to last at least until tomorrow and then a new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Increase in earthquake activity in Katla 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":[10,5,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443","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=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}