{"id":9614,"date":"2021-07-21T17:44:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9614"},"modified":"2021-07-21T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:44:59","slug":"deep-earthquakes-in-fagradalsfjall-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9614","title":{"rendered":"Deep earthquakes in Fagradalsfjall mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today (21-July-2021) few deep earthquakes took place in Fagradalsfjall mountain that is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja<\/a> volcano system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This earthquake activity was not big and the largest magnitude recorded was a magnitude of Mw0,8. Most depth that appeared had a depth of 13,4km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/210721_1555.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/210721_1555.png\" alt=\"Earthquake activity in Fagradalsfjalli mountain shown by a red dot, orange dots and few blue dots on Reykjanes peninsula.\" class=\"wp-image-9615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/210721_1555.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/210721_1555-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The earthquake activity in Fagradalsfjall mountain on Reykjanes peninsula. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is difficult to know what this means. What is possibly happening is that more magma is pushing up in the magma feeding that now exist where the eruption has been happening. If that is happening, it can result in new craters or fissure opening up and start erupting. At the writing of this article this earthquake activity seems to be ongoing, but at slow rate and small earthquakes only so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fog continues to block view to the crater and Fagradalsfjall mountain. But harmonic tremor data shows that the Fagradalsfjall mountain eruption is currently not erupting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (21-July-2021) few deep earthquakes took place in Fagradalsfjall mountain that is part of Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano system. This earthquake activity was not big and the largest magnitude recorded was a magnitude of Mw0,8. Most depth that appeared had a depth of 13,4km. It is difficult to know what this means. What is possibly happening is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deep earthquakes in Fagradalsfjall mountain&#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":[230,10,215,204,214,9,37,219,82,64,40,96,207,57,32],"tags":[221,226,222,237,228,229,241],"class_list":["post-9614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crater","category-earthquakes","category-eruption","category-fagradalsfjall","category-geldingadalur","category-harmonic-tremors","category-krysuvik","category-krysuvik-trolladyngja","category-lava","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-mountain","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-eruption","tag-fagradalsfjall","tag-iceland","tag-krysuvik","tag-lava","tag-magma","tag-reykjanes-peninsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614","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=9614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9618,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions\/9618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}