{"id":8524,"date":"2020-07-11T21:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2020-07-11T22:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:46:06","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-herdurbreidartogl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8524","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Her\u00f0urbrei\u00f0art\u00f6gl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (10-July-2020) an earthquake swarm took place in Her\u00f0urbrei\u00f0art\u00f6gl mountains. There is no known volcano in this area and the source of this earthquake swarm is most likely an tectonic stresses in this area. The largest earthquake had a magnitude Mw3,2 (14:15 UTC) and Mw3,1 (17:47 UTC). This earthquake swarm is still ongoing but there aren&#8217;t many earthquakes happening at the writing of this article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200711_1855.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200711_1855.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"616\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200711_1855.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200711_1855-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquakes swarm in Her\u00f0ubrei\u00f0art\u00f6gl area. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mountains in this area where created in eruptions during last glacier period around 12.000 years ago or earlier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. It helps me to get by and work on this website. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (10-July-2020) an earthquake swarm took place in Her\u00f0urbrei\u00f0art\u00f6gl mountains. There is no known volcano in this area and the source of this earthquake swarm is most likely an tectonic stresses in this area. The largest earthquake had a magnitude Mw3,2 (14:15 UTC) and Mw3,1 (17:47 UTC). This earthquake swarm is still ongoing but there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Her\u00f0urbrei\u00f0art\u00f6gl&#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":[10,166,40,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-herdubreidartogl","category-monitoring","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524","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=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8528,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/8528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}