{"id":9938,"date":"2021-12-25T02:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T02:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2021-12-25T02:52:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T02:52:48","slug":"strong-earthquake-activity-in-fagradalsfjall-mountain-krysuvik-trolladyngja-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9938","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake activity in Fagradalsfjall mountain, Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This information is going to get outdated quickly.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a constant earthquake swarm activity in Fagradalsfjall mountain, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja<\/a> volcano system. More than a dozen of earthquakes have been larger than magnitude 4,0 and it doesn&#8217;t look like this earthquake activity is doing to stop soon. Largest earthquakes in last few hours had a magnitude of Mw4,8 and Mw4,5. The earthquake north of Grindav\u00edk town appears to be a tension breaking earthquakes because of magma inflation in Fagradalsfjall mountain. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9939\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211225_0215.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9939 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211225_0215.png\" alt=\"A lot of earthquakes on Reykjanes peninsula, more than a dozen green stars, hundres of red dots showing smaller earthquakes\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211225_0215.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211225_0215-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earthquake activity on Reykjanes peninsula. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9940\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211225_0215_trace.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9940 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211225_0215_trace.png\" alt=\"Heavy earthquake activity shown on Icelandic Met Office earthquake tracker. The density of earthquake activity has the image swamped with activity\" width=\"540\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211225_0215_trace.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/211225_0215_trace-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity on Reykjanes peninsula in Fagradalsfjall mountain for the last 48 hours. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This earthquake swarm is close to Grindav\u00edk town, this is a similar situation that happened earlier in the year 2021. Just before the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain. This earthquake activity is going to continue to grow until an eruption starts. This earthquake activity also happens in a wave, resulting in it lower earthquake activity between powerful earthquake activity. I am expecting more strong earthquakes in next few days, unless an eruption starts in Fagradalsfjall mountain or nearby area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This information is going to get outdated quickly. There is now a constant earthquake swarm activity in Fagradalsfjall mountain, part of the Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano system. More than a dozen of earthquakes have been larger than magnitude 4,0 and it doesn&#8217;t look like this earthquake activity is doing to stop soon. Largest earthquakes in last few &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong earthquake activity in Fagradalsfjall mountain, Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja 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":[24,10,37,219,64,40,42,207,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-krysuvik","category-krysuvik-trolladyngja","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","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=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9941,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}