{"id":8903,"date":"2021-02-11T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8903"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:25:00","slug":"update-on-ongoing-earthquake-swarm-in-reykjanes-volcano-on-11-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8903","title":{"rendered":"Update on ongoing earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano on 11-February-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake swarm that started more than one year ago in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> volcano continues to be ongoing. Largest earthquake on 11-February 2021 at 07:56 UTC had the magnitude of Mw3,0. Other earthquakes had smaller magnitude as has been ongoing since 20-January-2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8904\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210211_1425.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210211_1425.png\" alt=\"Earthquake activity on Reykjanes peninsula and is mostly east of Grindav\u00edk town. Newest earthquakes are red dots and oldest are blue dots. Some earthquake activity west of Grindav\u00edk town.\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210211_1425.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210211_1425-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity east of Grindav\u00edk town. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since this magma activity in Reykjanes volcano started around 20-January 2020 there has been ongoing earthquake activity in this area. I don&#8217;t expect this to stop. When a eruption is going to happen is not something that is possible to know. Currently <a href=\"https:\/\/notendur.hi.is\/~hgeirs\/iceland_gps\/rnes\/rnes_100p.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GPS data<\/a> does not show any interesting change and doesn&#8217;t suggest anything is about to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake swarm that started more than one year ago in Reykjanes volcano continues to be ongoing. Largest earthquake on 11-February 2021 at 07:56 UTC had the magnitude of Mw3,0. Other earthquakes had smaller magnitude as has been ongoing since 20-January-2020. Since this magma activity in Reykjanes volcano started around 20-January 2020 there has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on ongoing earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano on 11-February-2021&#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":[24,10,64,40,42,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903","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=8903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8905,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903\/revisions\/8905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}