{"id":8390,"date":"2020-05-30T22:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T22:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8390"},"modified":"2020-05-31T00:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T00:19:57","slug":"earthquake-swarm-north-of-grindavik-town-east-of-thorbjorn-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8390","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm north-east of Grindav\u00edk town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (30-May-2020) at 01:07 UTC an earthquake swarm started north-east of Grindav\u00edk town in the volcano of <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> (Svartsengi part). Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw2,7 and other earthquakes have been smaller in magnitude. This earthquake swarm is currently ongoing and this information is going to get outdated quickly. Current activity doesn&#8217;t suggest that an eruption is about to happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200530_2110.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200530_2110.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200530_2110.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200530_2110-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm north-east of Grindav\u00edk town. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This signals that the inflation in this part of the volcano has started again at earlier speed possibly but this requires a confirmation from GPS data and such confirmation takes a few days. This is information that I don&#8217;t have access to because its from satellites that NASA runs to monitor volcanoes. Only Icelandic Met Office and University of Iceland has access to this type of information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (30-May-2020) at 01:07 UTC an earthquake swarm started north-east of Grindav\u00edk town in the volcano of Reykjanes (Svartsengi part). Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw2,7 and other earthquakes have been smaller in magnitude. This earthquake swarm is currently ongoing and this information is going to get outdated quickly. Current activity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm north-east of Grindav\u00edk town&#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":[24,10,64,40,42,207,206,57,32,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-svartsengi","category-swarm","category-volcano","category-thorbjorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390","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=8390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8393,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions\/8393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}