{"id":7567,"date":"2018-06-30T00:44:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T22:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7567"},"modified":"2018-06-30T00:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T22:54:52","slug":"ongoing-earthquake-swarm-in-oraefajokull-volcano-update-29-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7567","title":{"rendered":"Ongoing earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano (update 29-June-2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently ongoing earthquake swarm in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. This earthquake swarm started on 26-June-2018 with the magnitude 3,1 and it has been mostly ongoing since then. All earthquakes are minor in the volcano at the moment. A magnitude 2,1 earthquake happened outside the volcano (but those earthquakes appears to be connected to it) and suggest crustal stresses are changing at the moment at expectational speed (my view).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180629_2230.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180629_2230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180629_2230.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180629_2230-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano (red dots). <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What also appeared today is a earthquake swarm in the side of \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. If this earthquake activity continues it is worrying as it suggests that an eruption might happen in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano side and that might be a major issue if a eruption vents opens up in such area. Since this is close to Road 1 and warning time might be limited or close to none in worse case. This type of activity warrants more monitoring in my view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently ongoing earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. This earthquake swarm started on 26-June-2018 with the magnitude 3,1 and it has been mostly ongoing since then. All earthquakes are minor in the volcano at the moment. A magnitude 2,1 earthquake happened outside the volcano (but those earthquakes appears to be connected to it) and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ongoing earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano (update 29-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-7567","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\/7567","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=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7571,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions\/7571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}