{"id":7547,"date":"2018-06-21T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2018-06-21T00:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:15:01","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-oraefajokull-volcano-on-20-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7547","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano on 20-June-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (20-June-2018) a swarm of small earthquake happened in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. Current earthquake activity is vastly different than what appeared during the months and weeks before the eruption in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. There was less earthquake activity happening in the months and weeks before an eruption eventually happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180620_2155.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180620_2155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180620_2155.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180620_2155-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of 1,8 and all other earthquakes where smaller. Most around magnitude 0,5. Depth is 5 to 8 km at present time. In my view this earthquake activity suggests that \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano is going to be a major problem in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (20-June-2018) a swarm of small earthquake happened in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Current earthquake activity is vastly different than what appeared during the months and weeks before the eruption in Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano. There was less earthquake activity happening in the months and weeks before an eruption eventually happened. Earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Copyright of this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano on 20-June-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-7547","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\/7547","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=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7549,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}