{"id":8561,"date":"2020-08-01T02:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T02:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2020-08-01T02:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T02:24:21","slug":"two-strong-earthquakes-in-reykjanes-volcano-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8561","title":{"rendered":"Two strong earthquakes in Reykjanes volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (31-July-2020) two earthquakes with magnitude Mw3,4 and Mw3,0 took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> volcano. This earthquake activity is part of the inflation that is happening north of Grindav\u00edk town in the Reykjanes volcano.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/200731_1745.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/200731_1745.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/200731_1745.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/200731_1745-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity close to Fagradallsfjall mountain. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earthquake activity in Reykjanes volcano is now mostly continues but it peaks with earthquake activity swarm like this one every few days to weeks. How much earthquake activity depends on how magma inflow is taking place at 3 to 10 km depth. It seems that flow rate is different between hours to days. Since the earthquake activity is continuous in Reykjanes volcano there is a permanent risk of magnitude Mw5,0 to Mw6,0 earthquake in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (31-July-2020) two earthquakes with magnitude Mw3,4 and Mw3,0 took place in Reykjanes volcano. This earthquake activity is part of the inflation that is happening north of Grindav\u00edk town in the Reykjanes volcano. Earthquake activity close to Fagradallsfjall mountain. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met office. Earthquake activity in Reykjanes volcano is now &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two strong earthquakes in 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":[24,10,64,40,42,206,57,32,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-svartsengi","category-swarm","category-volcano","category-thorbjorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","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=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8563,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions\/8563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}