{"id":7863,"date":"2019-03-17T17:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2019-03-17T17:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T17:51:50","slug":"earthquake-activity-in-presthnjukar-volcano-south-langjokull-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7863","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake activity in Presthnj\u00fakar volcano (south Langj\u00f6kull glacier)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (16-March-2019) an earthquake swarm took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371070\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Presthnj\u00faka<\/a>r volcano (south-Langj\u00f6kull) or a volcano connected to it (there is a chance this volcano does not have a Global Volcanism Program profile). This earthquake swarm has been slow moving and only around 21 earthquakes have taken place in this earthquake swarm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190317_1400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190317_1400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190317_1400.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190317_1400-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm in Langj\u00f6kull glacier. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of 3,0 and other earthquakes that took place were smaller in magnitude. It is unclear why this earthquake activity is taking place, there is a chance this is just a tectonic movement. Last eruption in this volcano took place more than 5000 years ago. It appears that this earthquake swarm is now over. There is always a possibility that new earthquake swarm is going to start at the same or close to this earthquake swarm location.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. I am getting rather broke this month. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (16-March-2019) an earthquake swarm took place in Presthnj\u00fakar volcano (south-Langj\u00f6kull) or a volcano connected to it (there is a chance this volcano does not have a Global Volcanism Program profile). This earthquake swarm has been slow moving and only around 21 earthquakes have taken place in this earthquake swarm. The earthquake swarm in Langj\u00f6kull &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake activity in Presthnj\u00fakar volcano (south Langj\u00f6kull glacier)&#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":[10,55,40,56,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-langjokull-glacier-south","category-monitoring","category-presthnjukar","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863","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=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7866,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions\/7866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}