{"id":6730,"date":"2017-03-18T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2017-03-18T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T18:51:07","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-tugnafellsjokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6730","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small earthquake swarm took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373040\" target=\"_blank\">Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano during the night of 18-March-2017. All earthquakes that happened where minor in magnitude with many earthquakes having depth from 3 to 13 km.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170318_1805.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170318_1805.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170318_1805.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170318_1805-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity in Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcano (yellow dots, north of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano). <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is not clear why this earthquake activity happened in Tugnafellsj\u00f6kull volcano. This might be a dyke intrusion at depth or it might also just be a stress adjustment in the crust due to the inflation happening in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. It is not known at the moment if this is due to magma or stress adjustment in the crust. This is the first earthquake activity in Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcano after considerable period of quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small earthquake swarm took place in Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcano during the night of 18-March-2017. All earthquakes that happened where minor in magnitude with many earthquakes having depth from 3 to 13 km. The earthquake activity in Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcano (yellow dots, north of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano). Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office. It is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Tungnafellsj\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":[10,40,57,140,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-tungnafellsjokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","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=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}