{"id":8849,"date":"2020-12-29T22:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T22:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8849"},"modified":"2020-12-29T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T23:03:10","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-reykjanes-volcano-earthquake-activity-on-reykjanes-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8849","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano and earthquake activity on Reykjanes ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (29-December-2020) an earthquake swarm took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> volcano. This was just small earthquakes but the amount is considerable. This earthquake activity happens because of magma inflation in this area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201229_2240.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201229_2240.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201229_2240.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201229_2240-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Reykjanes volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reykjanes ridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today (29-December-2020) and earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,1 took place on Reykjanes ridge. This earthquake was far out in the ocean. Only one other smaller earthquake seems to have happened in that same area after the largest earthquake. Otherwise there has not been any more earthquake activity today out on the Reykjanes ridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201229_2210.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201229_2210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201229_2210.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201229_2210-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity on Reykjanes ridge. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (29-December-2020) an earthquake swarm took place in Reykjanes volcano. This was just small earthquakes but the amount is considerable. This earthquake activity happens because of magma inflation in this area. Earthquake activity in Reykjanes volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office. Reykjanes ridge Today (29-December-2020) and earthquake with magnitude of Mw3,1 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8849\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano and earthquake activity on Reykjanes ridge&#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":[10,64,40,42,23,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849","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=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8853,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions\/8853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}