{"id":9803,"date":"2021-10-13T20:36:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9803"},"modified":"2021-10-13T20:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:36:32","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-reykjanes-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9803","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday (12-October-2021) an earthquake swarm took place in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371020\" target=\"_blank\">Reykjanes<\/a> volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,3 and the earthquake swarm was out in the ocean not far from the coastline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/211013_2020.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/211013_2020.png\" alt=\"Two green stars out in the ocean shows the location of the earthquake swarm that was happening on Reykjanes ridge in the volcano of Reykjanes. Green star is also close to Keilir volcano that had an activity yesterday also.\" class=\"wp-image-9804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/211013_2020.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/211013_2020-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Earthquake activity out in the ocean on Reykjanes ridge. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is impossible to know for sure if this earthquake activity is directly connected to magma movements in this area. It is possible, but there have been some sign of magma moving in the crust in this area. The magma is moving but is not erupting or starting an eruption. Earthquake activity seems to be growing in this area of Reykjanes peninsula and Reykjanes ridge after the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (12-October-2021) an earthquake swarm took place in Reykjanes volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of Mw3,3 and the earthquake swarm was out in the ocean not far from the coastline. It is impossible to know for sure if this earthquake activity is directly connected to magma movements in this area. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Reykjanes 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":[10,42,23,57,32],"tags":[225,222,239,250,233],"class_list":["post-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-earthquakes","tag-iceland","tag-reykjanes","tag-reykjanes-ridge","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","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=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9805,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions\/9805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}