{"id":7222,"date":"2017-12-07T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:33:20","slug":"cauldron-in-oraefajokull-volcano-continues-to-get-deeper-and-get-wider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7222","title":{"rendered":"Cauldron in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano continues to get deeper and wider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news of the cauldron that has formed in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano is not good. According to the news on mbl.is the cauldron got larger by 20 meters over a 9 day time period. Current shape of the cauldron now is close to the one of water droplet (according to the news). The hydrothermal activity is expanding to the south at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171207_1315.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171207_1315.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171207_1315.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171207_1315-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCurrent earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano is constant, sometimes bad weather is preventing detection of earthquakes. There has been a small increase in magnitude of earthquakes being detected at the moment that change is not large as most earthquakes are below magnitude 1,0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic News (in English)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandmonitor.mbl.is\/news\/nature_and_travel\/2017\/12\/07\/oraefajokull_caldera_has_deepened_considerably\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull caldera has deepened considerably<\/a> (mbl.is)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. Everything helps me running this website. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest news of the cauldron that has formed in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano is not good. According to the news on mbl.is the cauldron got larger by 20 meters over a 9 day time period. Current shape of the cauldron now is close to the one of water droplet (according to the news). The hydrothermal activity is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cauldron in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano continues to get deeper and wider&#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":[41,64,40,87,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hydrothermal","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-oraefajokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","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=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7225,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}