{"id":9519,"date":"2021-06-25T23:55:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2021-06-25T23:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T23:55:39","slug":"earthquake-activity-in-hekla-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9519","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake activity in Hekla volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 06:00 few minor earthquakes took place in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372070\" target=\"_blank\">Hekla<\/a> volcano.  This is unusual since Hekla volcano normally doesn&#8217;t have earthquakes until an eruption is just about to start. No eruption happened and currently there are no signs that an eruption is about to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/210625_1650.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/210625_1650.png\" alt=\"Earthquake activity in western part of Hekla volcano. Shown by few orange dots on this image.\" class=\"wp-image-9520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/210625_1650.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/210625_1650-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The earthquake activity in western part of Hekla volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is going on is difficult to know but this might just be a pressure change or a fault line giving in to pressure changes. The last earthquake had the time  09:36 UTC and since then there has been no additional earthquake activity in Hekla volcano. That might change without warning as has happened before in history of Hekla volcano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fagradalsfjall mountain eruption<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am delaying an article about the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain. There might be something going on there but I don&#8217;t know what yet, if there is anything going on to start with. The area has been hidden in fog all day making estimation on what is going on impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 06:00 few minor earthquakes took place in Hekla volcano. This is unusual since Hekla volcano normally doesn&#8217;t have earthquakes until an eruption is just about to start. No eruption happened and currently there are no signs that an eruption is about to start. What is going on is difficult to know but this might &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake activity in Hekla 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":[10,6,32],"tags":[225,236,222],"class_list":["post-9519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-hekla","category-volcano","tag-earthquakes","tag-hekla","tag-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519","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=9519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9521,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions\/9521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}