{"id":8414,"date":"2020-06-13T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2020-06-13T21:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T21:09:57","slug":"sharp-increase-in-earthquakes-in-thorbjorn-mountain-svartsengi-reykjanes-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8414","title":{"rendered":"Sharp increase in earthquakes in \u00deorbj\u00f6rn mountain (Svartsengi\/Reykjanes volcano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since around 06:00 this morning (13-June-2020) a sharp increase in earthquake activity took place north of Grindav\u00edk town. The most dense earthquake swarm was located west of the Blue lagoon with other minor swarms in other nearby areas. The active volcano is <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> and Svartsengi (no Global Volcanism profile). Map can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandicvolcanos.is\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ni.is\/midlun\/utgafa\/kort\/jardfraedikort\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (go to H\u00f6ggunarkort).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earthquakes-skjalfta-lisa-13-06-2020.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earthquakes-skjalfta-lisa-13-06-2020-1024x609.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earthquakes-skjalfta-lisa-13-06-2020-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earthquakes-skjalfta-lisa-13-06-2020-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earthquakes-skjalfta-lisa-13-06-2020-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earthquakes-skjalfta-lisa-13-06-2020.png 1189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe clusters of earthquake activity close to Grindav\u00edk town. This map can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/skjalftalisa.vedur.is\/#\/page\/map\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (Icelandic only). <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200613_2045.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200613_2045.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200613_2045.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/200613_2045-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCurrent earthquake activity close to Grindav\u00edk town. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquakes at the writing of this article have a magnitude of Mw3,5 (at 20:27 UTC) but since this earthquake swarm in ongoing that number can change without warning.<\/p>\n<p>There was also considerable noise during the earthquake swarm earlier. Suggesting that something is going on but I do not know what might be for now. The noise results in the blue band thickens during the earthquake swarm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/grv-svd-13-06-2020-2024.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/grv-svd-13-06-2020-2024.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8418\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe termor plot during the earthquake swarm. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current GPS data (can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/notendur.hi.is\/~hgeirs\/iceland_gps\/rnes\/rnes_100p.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) doesn&#8217;t show any major changes at the writing of this article. That might change in next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since around 06:00 this morning (13-June-2020) a sharp increase in earthquake activity took place north of Grindav\u00edk town. The most dense earthquake swarm was located west of the Blue lagoon with other minor swarms in other nearby areas. The active volcano is Reykjanes and Svartsengi (no Global Volcanism profile). Map can be found here and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sharp increase in earthquakes in \u00deorbj\u00f6rn mountain (Svartsengi\/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":[24,10,19,64,40,42,207,23,206,57,32,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-inflation","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-svartsengi","category-swarm","category-volcano","category-thorbjorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414","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=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}