{"id":7603,"date":"2018-07-24T23:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2018-07-24T23:56:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:56:45","slug":"small-earthquake-swarm-in-oraefajokull-volcano-monday-23-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7603","title":{"rendered":"Small earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano Monday 23-July-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 23-July-2018 there was an small earthquake swarm in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. This type of earthquake swarm is a common activity at the moment. Around 100 to 200 earthquakes now happen in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano each week. Almost all of them are small and less than 1,0 in magnitude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180724_1655.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180724_1655.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180724_1655.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180724_1655-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquake so far this week had a magnitude of 1,2 and it had a depth of 4,9 km. Other earthquakes where smaller in magnitude. When a earthquake swarm happens in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano it is because magma is pressuring it self upwards inside the volcano. Earthquakes far outside \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano are because of stress changes in the crust and that re-activates fault lines in the area. This might increase as more magma collects into \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano along with stronger magnitude. That process might take weeks or months from what it is today.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 23-July-2018 there was an small earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. This type of earthquake swarm is a common activity at the moment. Around 100 to 200 earthquakes now happen in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano each week. Almost all of them are small and less than 1,0 in magnitude. The earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Copyright &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Small earthquake swarm in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano Monday 23-July-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":[24,10,64,40,87,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","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\/7603","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=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}