{"id":7090,"date":"2017-09-29T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2017-09-29T00:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:30:36","slug":"earthquake-swarm-west-of-langjokull-glacier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7090","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (28-September-2017) a earthquake swarm has been taking place west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier, it is close to a volcano named <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371070\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Presthnj\u00fakar<\/a>. It is the same system and inside its fissure swarm. The area in question has known faults from the modern era (12.000 years).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170928_2320.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170928_2320.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170928_2320.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170928_2320-292x300.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>Largest earthquakes that happened had the magnitude of 2,8 and 3,1 both where felt by staff of a tourist company that operates in this area. There is no permanent population in this part of Iceland. I don&#8217;t know when this area last erupted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (28-September-2017) a earthquake swarm has been taking place west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier, it is close to a volcano named Presthnj\u00fakar. It is the same system and inside its fissure swarm. The area in question has known faults from the modern era (12.000 years). The earthquake activity west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier. Copyright of this image &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7090\" 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":[10,194,195,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-hafrafell","category-langjokull","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090","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=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7092,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions\/7092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}