{"id":6950,"date":"2017-07-23T23:33:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2017-07-25T23:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:11:04","slug":"earthquake-activity-in-katla-volcano-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6950","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake activity in Katla volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 22-July-2017 and on Saturday 23-July-2017 earthquake swarm activity took place inside <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372030\" target=\"_blank\">Katla<\/a> volcano caldera. Largest earthquake on Friday 22-July was magnitude 3,1 and on Saturday a magnitude 3,2 earthquake took place. Before and after the main earthquakes a swarm of smaller earthquakes took place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/170723_1805.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/170723_1805.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/170723_1805.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/170723_1805-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity in Katla volcano during the last 48 hours. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interesting earthquake activity has been appearing in the south-west part of the caldera. That area had a minor eruption in 1999 (lasted for ~6 hours maybe). This is directly above S\u00f3lheimaj\u00f6kul glacier (tourist attraction). Currently Katla volcano is quiet but that can change without warning given recent history of earthquake activity in the volcano.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nDonations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. It helps me to keep writing here and to keep this website going. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 22-July-2017 and on Saturday 23-July-2017 earthquake swarm activity took place inside Katla volcano caldera. Largest earthquake on Friday 22-July was magnitude 3,1 and on Saturday a magnitude 3,2 earthquake took place. Before and after the main earthquakes a swarm of smaller earthquakes took place. The earthquake activity in Katla volcano during the last &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=6950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;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-6950","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\/6950","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=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}