{"id":7389,"date":"2018-02-25T16:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2018-02-25T16:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T16:02:13","slug":"fresh-earthquake-activity-in-oraefajokull-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7389","title":{"rendered":"Fresh earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (24-February-2018) and today (25-February-2018) earthquake activity increased in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano after a long quiet time. Largest earthquake recorded had a magnitude of 2,2. Other magnitude where from 0,6 and up to 1,2. All earthquakes are marked as at shallow depth, but that might not be correct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180225_1225.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180225_1225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180225_1225.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180225_1225-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano (south to the right on this image). <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano is due to magma pushing up into the volcano. This is above background level of activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano since background level activity is around 1 &#8211; 2 earthquake a year (up to 10 earthquakes a year).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (24-February-2018) and today (25-February-2018) earthquake activity increased in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano after a long quiet time. Largest earthquake recorded had a magnitude of 2,2. Other magnitude where from 0,6 and up to 1,2. All earthquakes are marked as at shallow depth, but that might not be correct. Earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano (south to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fresh earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull 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":[10,64,40,87,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-oraefajokull","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389","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=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}