{"id":7203,"date":"2017-11-28T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:58:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:58:37","slug":"magma-movement-in-askja-volcano-dyngjufjoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7203","title":{"rendered":"Magma movement in Askja volcano (Dyngjufj\u00f6ll)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days there has been a earthquake activity in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373060\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Askja<\/a> volcano. All of the earthquakes so far have been small in magnitude and only few have reached magnitude above 1,0. This earthquake activity is due to magma movements and its the first time I have seen it reported at this shallow depth (above 10 km depth).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171128_1235.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171128_1235.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171128_1235.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171128_1235-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Askja volcano. North of Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier. There is also activity in Her\u00f0ubrei\u00f0 to the east, but that&#8217;s an unrelated activity and is due to tectonic forces in the area. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are no clear signs that an eruption is about to happen in Askja volcano or in Dyngjufj\u00f6ll as this area is also called. If an eruption starts in this area outside of any major water area its only going to erupt lava with minimal risk. Explosive eruption due to water is also a possibility but those are impossible to predict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days there has been a earthquake activity in Askja volcano. All of the earthquakes so far have been small in magnitude and only few have reached magnitude above 1,0. This earthquake activity is due to magma movements and its the first time I have seen it reported at this shallow depth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magma movement in Askja volcano (Dyngjufj\u00f6ll)&#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":[63,10,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-askja","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203","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=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7205,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions\/7205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}