Best El Hierro Thread On GLP - Canary Islands - ACTIVITY HAS RETURNED - AGAIN!

Here's some interesting information I have found about the Lanzarote eruption of 1730.

"From 1730 to 1736 (for 2,053 days), the island was hit by a series of volcanic eruptions, producing 32 new volcanoes in a stretch of 18 km. The minister of Yaiza Don Andrés Lorenzo Curbelo documented the eruption in detail until 1731. Lava covered a quarter of the island's surface, including the most fertile soil and eleven villages. One hundred smaller volcanoes were located in the area called Montañas del Fuego."

6yrs.. 32 new volcanoes. We could be in for the long haul.

Sorry, that was from Wikipedia.

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damn, looking at this graphic, doesn´t look so well..

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yes we could, indeed.

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Holy Crappamoly!!!!

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She's gone solid again. I expect a new vent to be opening soon!

Seems like the IGN graph for El Hierro is saturated again. Commenting at Jon's blog suggests that it is already been clipped too many times, so the tremors we're seeing now could be orders of magnitude larger than when the event started.

Which corroborates the reports of islanders who are reporting the feeling of constant vibrations now. :(

I've been reading the facebook posts and the people on the island, if evacuated, will NOT be allowed to bring their pets and they've been told to release them if it happens.

Ok, I know people must come first but come on...leaving behind a pet you love dearly is really, really wrong imo

:(

Yo!!!!!!!!!!!!

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If you look at that and try to visualize what is happening beneath the surface.. it seems to me like magma is moving, coming up solid and then subsequently breaking through repeatedly. Not good.. of course my amateur visualization could be completely wrong lol

yes, not only has the general magnitude of the
harmonic tremors increased, but, also, all the
places were you see intermittent increases above
that indicated that the magma is going "BOOM" as it
pushes a fissure further apart on its relentless
march to the surface.

Quote: Yesterday, 99 earthquakes occured in the area of El Hierro. 4 of them were stronger than M3.0, with M4.4 as strongest.

Some data indicates that magma is definitely moving underground. Will something happen soon? We will keep you updated.

The first half of today, IGN didn't count much earthquakes in the area of El Hierro (around 25). For now; it looks like a quiet day. End Quote

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As always, it's a wait and see game.

99.999% of our universe is in a plasma state and magma is plasma state

plasma is the most effective conductor of electricity

what is conducting through the plasma/magma forcing it to express those visuals


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by default how much of earths material is in a plasma state?

Last Edited by aether on 11/03/2011 09:31 AM

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Whole Lotta Shakin’ at El Hierro Suggests New Eruption Might Be Imminent

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Good information and contains lots of good links too.

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it tells you something when people finally start evacuating of their own volition. the 'authorities' couldnt organised a piss up in a brewery

yes, i know. fact is that the entire Canary Islands
is sitting on a giant caldera, as evidenced by the
fact that Gran Canaria has been exhibiting significant
harmonic tremors all along.

For those that have the Google Earth program, go to the Canary Islands with an 'eye altitude' of around 300 ft. The ocean floor topography is absolutely facinating. It really gives you an idea how all these islands are connected. And you can see many of what appear to be 'cones' around all the islands, under the ocean. Quite interesting.

For those that don't have Google Earth, you might want to download it. It is worth the few minutes it takes to download and install it, and it is free.

I use it very often....love it.

You can see all of that on google maps now too if you don't want to install GE. In fact, if you install the plugin, you can access GE right from your browser now too.

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My apologies if this is a repeat.

The sea south of El Hierro.

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Info from: [link to twitter.com]

these booms are starting to look like regular
pulsating. (what does "resonance" mean when
talking about volcanic harmonic tremors? i wonder...)

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Wow...we're on a real roll here

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Gomera is picking up the vibrations too

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Very true, I have used both. Google Earth is just my personal preference. It offers so much more. But for anyone who is not interested in downloading Google Earth, Google Maps will show good information also.

La Palma picking it up too now

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Lanzarote has steady yellow building, per chart [link to www.ign.es] in the 6 Hz range. Seems that was determined to be large underground features being opened/destroyed if I remember correctly.

When all of this started there were tons of 1.5 magnitude quakes, and less...now...they're almost all over 1.5

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Wow...not good!!!! Fuerteventura picking up the vibrations too!!! That means that magma is probably pushing through the earth over there too...and it's REALLY far from Hierro

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Now at 2.15E+12...HUGE energy jump over night

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Lanzarote also picking up vibrations

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