{"id":8890,"date":"2021-01-28T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T08:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2021-01-28T08:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T08:29:23","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-prestahnukur-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8890","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Prestahn\u00fakur volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (27-January-2021) an earthquake swarm started in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371070\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prestahn\u00fakar<\/a> volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,0 and other earthquakes where smaller in magnitude.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8891\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/210128_0555.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/210128_0555.png\" alt=\"Yellow earthquake on the south-west side of the volcano. In the former glacier Ok. \" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/210128_0555.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/210128_0555-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in the volcano Prestahn\u00fakar. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake swarm has stopped but it might start again since earthquake activity in this area is often slow to start and goes on for a long time, up to 1 to 3 years. There is no sign that magma is at work in this earthquake swarm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (27-January-2021) an earthquake swarm started in Prestahn\u00fakar volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,0 and other earthquakes where smaller in magnitude. This earthquake swarm has stopped but it might start again since earthquake activity in this area is often slow to start and goes on for a long time, up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Prestahn\u00fakur 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":[10,40,107,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-prestahnukur","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","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=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8892,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}