{"id":8584,"date":"2020-08-21T22:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2020-08-21T22:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:07:47","slug":"new-earthquake-swarm-in-tjornes-fracture-zone-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8584","title":{"rendered":"New earthquake swarm in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone (volcano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (21-August-2020) an earthquake swarm started in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373100\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone<\/a> volcano. It is unclear if this earthquake activity is because of tectonic activity. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,2 at the writing of this article. Other earthquakes in this swarm had smaller in magnitude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/200821_1950.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/200821_1950.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/200821_1950.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/200821_1950-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe earthquake swarm (green star) in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a new earthquake swarm and is not connected to the earthquake swarm in the western part of Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone. This are two separate earthquake swarms now happening. This earthquake activity is ongoing at the writing of this article in both earthquake swarms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (21-August-2020) an earthquake swarm started in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone volcano. It is unclear if this earthquake activity is because of tectonic activity. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,2 at the writing of this article. Other earthquakes in this swarm had smaller in magnitude. The earthquake swarm (green star) in Tj\u00f6rnes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New earthquake swarm in Tj\u00f6rnes Fracture Zone (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":[10,40,57,44,189,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-tfz","category-tjornes-fracture-zone","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","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=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8586,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}