{"id":6871,"date":"2017-06-11T21:39:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T21:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2017-06-11T21:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T21:39:31","slug":"earthquake-swarm-west-of-langjokull-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6871","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few weeks ago an earthquake swarm started west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier and is on the edge of western fracture zone. That earthquake swarm then stopped and has now started again and it appears that the magnitude of the earthquakes is increasing. The magnitude has gone from mostly 1,0 and up to mostly 2,0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170611_1900.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170611_1900.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170611_1900.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/170611_1900-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This earthquake swarm has all the signs of being intra-plate earthquake swarm, but due to location of it&#8217;s hard to be sure if that is the case. No fault lines are document at this location, that means no major earthquake activity has taken place there for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. I am currently going trough a difficult month. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few weeks ago an earthquake swarm started west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier and is on the edge of western fracture zone. That earthquake swarm then stopped and has now started again and it appears that the magnitude of the earthquakes is increasing. The magnitude has gone from mostly 1,0 and up to mostly 2,0. The earthquake &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier&#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":[10,40,57,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-western-fracture-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","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=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}