{"id":8335,"date":"2020-03-25T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8335"},"modified":"2020-03-25T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:46:14","slug":"two-strong-earthquakes-in-reykjanes-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8335","title":{"rendered":"Two strong earthquakes in Reykjanes volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (25-March 2020) two earthquakes happened in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> volcano. Largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,1 and the second earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,9. Other earthquakes were smaller in magnitude but this earthquake swarm seems to be over for now but activity in this area is ongoing and there is no signs that activity is going to stop in this area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200325_1820.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200325_1820.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200325_1820.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200325_1820-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity on the Reykjanes peninsula in the volcano Reykjanes. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Inflation is ongoing in the area around Grindav\u00edk village and even if it is slower than in January it has not stopped. This explains the earthquake activity in this area. Activity happens in swarms and it is quiet between swarms. What is interesting is that time between swarms seems to be getting shorter and magnitude of some of the earthquakes seems to be getting stronger. I am not sure why that is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work. It helps me to keep this website going and writing on here. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (25-March 2020) two earthquakes happened in Reykjanes volcano. Largest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,1 and the second earthquake had a magnitude of Mw3,9. Other earthquakes were smaller in magnitude but this earthquake swarm seems to be over for now but activity in this area is ongoing and there is no signs that activity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two strong earthquakes in Reykjanes volcano&#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":[24,10,19,64,40,42,57,32,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-inflation","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-swarm","category-volcano","category-thorbjorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335","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=8335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8338,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions\/8338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}