{"id":8521,"date":"2020-07-10T20:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2020-07-10T20:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T20:11:21","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-reykjanes-volcano-close-to-grindavik-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8521","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano close to Grindav\u00edk town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (9-July-2020) an earthquake swarm took place north-east of Grindav\u00edk town in the <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,3 and the reason for this earthquake swarm was a magma injection at 4 to 6 km depth into a sill that is forming north-east of Grindav\u00edk town, close to what seems to be a old fissure in that area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200710_1820.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200710_1820.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200710_1820.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200710_1820-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm in the Reykjanes volcano yesterday. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a chance that the magma that is pushing this activity might be as shallow as 3 km but currently it is difficult to know for sure but deformation that can be monitored by <a href=\"https:\/\/notendur.hi.is\/~hgeirs\/iceland_gps\/rnes\/rnes_100p.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">GPS data<\/a> is going to give more clear picture in next few days. Currently there doesn&#8217;t seems to be enough magma in the higher level of the crust to start and eruption or the magma is blocked by some other unknown factors in the crust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (9-July-2020) an earthquake swarm took place north-east of Grindav\u00edk town in the Reykjanes volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,3 and the reason for this earthquake swarm was a magma injection at 4 to 6 km depth into a sill that is forming north-east of Grindav\u00edk town, close to what &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano close to 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":[24,10,64,40,42,206,32,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-svartsengi","category-volcano","category-thorbjorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","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=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8523,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions\/8523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}