{"id":9912,"date":"2021-12-13T20:26:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2021-12-13T20:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:35:18","slug":"earthquake-swarm-in-vatnafjoll-mountain-south-of-hekla-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9912","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm in Vatnafj\u00f6ll mountain (south of Hekla volcano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (13-December-2021) at 16:04 UTC an earthquake swarm started in Vatnafj\u00f6ll mountains. This looks like a aftershock activity from the Mw5,2 earthquake in this area few weeks back. Three earthquakes with magnitude above Mw3,0 took place. The earthquake magnitudes where Mw3,0 (at 16:04), magnitude Mw3,2 (at 16:07) and magnitude Mw3,5 (at 16:08). <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9913\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211213_2015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9913 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211213_2015.png\" alt=\"Gr\u00e6n stjarna su\u00f0ur af Heklu s\u00fdnir sta\u00f0setningu jar\u00f0skj\u00e1lftanna \u00ed Vatnafj\u00f6llum mountains\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211213_2015.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211213_2015-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity south of Hekla volcano in Vatnafj\u00f6ll mountains. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There continues to be a risk of more aftershocks in this area. It remains a question if there is going to be a stronger earthquake activity in this area in next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (13-December-2021) at 16:04 UTC an earthquake swarm started in Vatnafj\u00f6ll mountains. This looks like a aftershock activity from the Mw5,2 earthquake in this area few weeks back. Three earthquakes with magnitude above Mw3,0 took place. The earthquake magnitudes where Mw3,0 (at 16:04), magnitude Mw3,2 (at 16:07) and magnitude Mw3,5 (at 16:08). There continues to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm in Vatnafj\u00f6ll mountain (south of 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":[10,6,40,57,283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-hekla","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-vatnafjoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912","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=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}