{"id":8957,"date":"2021-03-01T19:49:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:40:54","slug":"magma-injection-confirmed-in-reykjanes-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8957","title":{"rendered":"Magma injection confirmed in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk volcano [Updated article]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (1-March-2021) it was confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371030\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk<\/a> volcano is having a large magma injection from depth into the shallower layers of the crust. Resulting in the current earthquake swarm. At the writing of this article it seems that the magma is located at around 6 km depth. Detected displacement by GPS recordings is now more than 30cm according to the news and scientists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8959\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/inflation-Reykjanes-volcano-01-03-2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/inflation-Reykjanes-volcano-01-03-2021.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow map showing the displacement. Largest dispacement is more than 30cm currently\" width=\"659\" height=\"515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/inflation-Reykjanes-volcano-01-03-2021.jpg 659w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/inflation-Reykjanes-volcano-01-03-2021-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inflation map of Reykjanes peninsula showing displacement. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The image above is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Vedurstofan\/photos\/a.431284043605831\/3881421708592030\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> on Facebook. What is also interesting is the activity in<a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Reykjanes<\/a> volcano. There have also been earthquakes in Reykjanes volcano but they have been fewer but not necessarily smaller in magnitude<\/p>\n<p>Next article is going to be tomorrow (02-March-2021) if nothing major happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2-March-2021 at 13:40 UTC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This morning it was confirmed that the volcano that is having a major dyke intrusion is the volcano Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk and not the volcano Reykjanes as I first thought since earthquake activity for the last 14 months has been most active in this volcano. This article has been corrected in light of this information. The border between the two volcanoes is little unclear on the map and even different between maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (1-March-2021) it was confirmed that Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk volcano is having a large magma injection from depth into the shallower layers of the crust. Resulting in the current earthquake swarm. At the writing of this article it seems that the magma is located at around 6 km depth. Detected displacement by GPS recordings is now more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magma injection confirmed in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk volcano [Updated article]&#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":[24,10,37,64,40,207,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-krysuvik","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","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=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8971,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions\/8971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}