{"id":9137,"date":"2021-03-19T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2021-03-19T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T21:38:08","slug":"inflation-slows-in-krysuvik-trolladyngja-volcano-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9137","title":{"rendered":"Inflation slows in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short article that because the situation can change without warning and article is written on 19-March-2021 at 21:07 UTC. There have been updates to names used and now <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371030\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja<\/a> name is used by Global Volcanism Program and Icelandic Met Office. Suggesting that the magma that is about to erupt has its origin in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk volcano system eat of current centre of activity. This sometimes happens in Iceland when magma travels long distances deep underground.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9139\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210319_2055.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210319_2055.png\" alt=\"Earthquake activity in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano system with two green stars showing two earthquakes with magnitude larger than three\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210319_2055.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210319_2055-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano system. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today at 15:01 an earthquake took place with magnitude of Mw3,1. This earthquake has in my view clear signs of magma movement close to the surface as the depth of this earthquake was just 0,1 km (100 meter).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9140\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210319.150100.hvtz_.psn_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/210319.150100.hvtz_.psn_.gif\" alt=\"A magnitude 3,1 earthquake that took place. Image shows P wave and a S wave and a long period after the S wave \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9140\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A magnitude Mw3,1 earthquake that took place today at 15:01 UTC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake strongly suggests that magma created it at shallow depth. It has not yet resulted in an eruption but it is a question if this the final sign before an eruption happens. The current quiet time might last up to 2 months but it is impossible to know for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short article that because the situation can change without warning and article is written on 19-March-2021 at 21:07 UTC. There have been updates to names used and now Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja name is used by Global Volcanism Program and Icelandic Met Office. Suggesting that the magma that is about to erupt has its origin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inflation slows in Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano system&#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":[24,10,71,17,89,19,213,37,64,40,57,180,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-fissures","category-gps-data","category-gps-monitoring","category-inflation","category-keilir","category-krysuvik","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-trolladyngja","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137","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=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9142,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions\/9142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}