{"id":7430,"date":"2018-04-07T13:20:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2018-04-07T13:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T13:20:34","slug":"monthly-update-on-oraefajokull-volcano-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7430","title":{"rendered":"Monthly update on \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano &#8211; March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update on the activity in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past month the earthquake activity in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano has been mostly stable and majority of the earthquakes happening are small in magnitude and most in the range of 0,0 &#8211; 1,0. One magnitude 2,8 and magnitude 3,0 earthquake have happened in this time period (article <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7416\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180406_1415.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180406_1415.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180406_1415.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180406_1415-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity yesterday in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This earthquake activity is easily masked by strong winds and bad weather in the area. As summer approaches in Iceland risk of such storms is now smaller than during high winter. It is only when larger earthquakes start to appear that the risk of an eruption becomes serious. Until then this is just earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano that needs to be monitored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update on the activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Over the past month the earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano has been mostly stable and majority of the earthquakes happening are small in magnitude and most in the range of 0,0 &#8211; 1,0. One magnitude 2,8 and magnitude 3,0 earthquake have happened in this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monthly update on \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano &#8211; March 2018&#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-7430","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\/7430","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=7430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}