{"id":9975,"date":"2022-01-26T01:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T01:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9975"},"modified":"2022-01-26T01:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T01:56:03","slug":"earthquake-swarm-south-west-of-langjokull-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9975","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake swarm south-west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since December 2021 an earthquake swarm has been ongoing south-west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier. This area is not part of any known fault zone or any volcano. This is just tectonic earthquakes and is outside of main earthquake areas. This intra-plate earthquakes happens sometimes in Iceland. Why that is remains unknown, but best idea is this happens because of stress changes because of tectonic movement. Earthquake magnitude can go up to Mw5,5 or larger. But such events are extremely rare, but do happen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9977\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/220125_2005.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9977 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/220125_2005.png\" alt=\"Earthquake swarm south-west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier. Green star shows a magnitude Mw3,3 earthquake\" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/220125_2005.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/220125_2005-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake south-west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the second earthquake with magnitude Mw3,3 in this area, with the earlier one happening on 18th January 2022. The hill this earthquake swarm is happening in is called H\u00fasafell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since December 2021 an earthquake swarm has been ongoing south-west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier. This area is not part of any known fault zone or any volcano. This is just tectonic earthquakes and is outside of main earthquake areas. This intra-plate earthquakes happens sometimes in Iceland. Why that is remains unknown, but best idea is this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earthquake swarm south-west of Langj\u00f6kull glacier&#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":[10,40,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","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=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}