{"id":8170,"date":"2019-11-16T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8170"},"modified":"2019-11-16T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T21:20:09","slug":"update-on-the-earthquake-swarm-on-the-reykjanes-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8170","title":{"rendered":"Update on the earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake swarm that started today (16-November-2019) on the Reykjanes ridge in the volcano called <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> [Eldey] continues. At the writing of this article 29 earthquakes larger than magnitude Mw3,0 have happened at this location on the Reykjanes ridge. Largest earthquake so far had a magnitude of Mw4,5. The earthquake swarm slowed down after 17:00 and has remained in slow activity since then but it is ongoing as of writing of this article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191116_2055.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191116_2055.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191116_2055.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191116_2055-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191116_2055_trace.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191116_2055_trace.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"175\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191116_2055_trace.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191116_2055_trace-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDensity of the earthquake swarm. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquakes in this area have reached magnitude Mw5,0 and last time that happened was in <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?m=201506\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">June<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?m=201507\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">July<\/a>-2015. I wrote about all those earthquakes swarms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. They help me with this website and normal life. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake swarm that started today (16-November-2019) on the Reykjanes ridge in the volcano called Reykjanes [Eldey] continues. At the writing of this article 29 earthquakes larger than magnitude Mw3,0 have happened at this location on the Reykjanes ridge. Largest earthquake so far had a magnitude of Mw4,5. The earthquake swarm slowed down after 17:00 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on the earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes ridge&#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":[10,203,40,23,65,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-eldey","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-rift-zone","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170","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=8170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}