{"id":8540,"date":"2020-07-19T20:54:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T20:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2020-07-19T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:23:34","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-the-reykjanes-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8540","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in the Reykjanes volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few hours there has been an earthquake swarm close to mountain called Fagradalsfjall in or close to the volcano called <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a>. At the writing of this article no earthquake with magnitude over Mw2,0 have happened. That might change without a warning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200719_2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200719_2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200719_2025.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/200719_2025-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm in the volcano Reykjanes or close to it. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Currently there isn&#8217;t anything suggesting that magma is on the move at the writing of this article. This earthquake swarm is something to watch out for since this might increase in size and magnitude over the next few hours. Inflation data from <a href=\"https:\/\/notendur.hi.is\/~hgeirs\/iceland_gps\/rnes\/rnes_100p.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">GPS measurements<\/a> from this area are still unclear. There is also ongoing earthquake swarm north of Grindav\u00edk town but it has quieted down in last few hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few hours there has been an earthquake swarm close to mountain called Fagradalsfjall in or close to the volcano called Reykjanes. At the writing of this article no earthquake with magnitude over Mw2,0 have happened. That might change without a warning. The earthquake swarm in the volcano Reykjanes or close to it. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in the 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":[24,10,19,64,40,42,207,206,57,32,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8540","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-svartsengi","category-swarm","category-volcano","category-thorbjorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","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=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8543,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions\/8543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}