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

earthquake2012-09-15 13:13:24.4
30min ago 27.72 N 17.98 W 24 ML
3.2 CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION [link to www.emsc-csem.org]

"The webpage cannot be found"

Update 15/09 – 11:59 UTC

- 88 earthquakes listed by IGN until the time of this update, more to come
- since midnight we have counted 16 earthquakes of M2.5 or stronger
- The strongest earthquake was not a M2.8 but a M3.1, late yesterday.
- Epicenters are moving a little to the east (see and compare Avcan epicenter images of this and other updates)
- IGN has not registered any Felt earthquake so far (although this has to be taken with a grain of salt as only very few people will report this. People are getting accustomed to these more vibration like patterns, not really shakers … so far)

Time for another posting of these pics to give you all these perspectives on just two of the cliffs on El Hierro that could give way with enough shaking. I am NOT a doomer by any means...just saying..look and consider.

Tigiday:

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Las Puntas

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And these cliffs most likely have been formed by previous landslides...........

"Landslides and tsunami

There is evidence of at least three major landslides that have affected El Hierro in the last few hundred thousand years.[12] The most recent of these was the 'El Golfo' landslide that occurred about 15 thousand years ago, involving collapse of the northern flank of the island. The landslide formed the El Golfo valley and created a debris avalanche with a volume of 150–180 km3. Turbidite deposits related to this landslide have been recognized in drill cores from the Agadir Basin to the north of the Canary Islands.[13] Detailed analysis of these deposits suggests that the slope failure did not occur as a single event but a series of smaller failures over a period of hours or days. Local tsunami are likely to have been triggered by these landslides but no evidence has been found to confirm this."

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] (This address won't link so you will have to copy and paste.)

Last Edited by shenue on 09/15/2012 10:22 AM

Something is very wrong, check out the EQ's for today only, right under the island this time

[link to www.ign.es]

Are you talking about the number of quakes?

Tenerife quakes VERY active today:

[link to www.ign.es]

[link to www.ign.es]

Update 15/09 – 13:57 UTC

- just received an Email stating that a M3.2 struck at El Hierro on 13:13. Epicenter, just north of El Pinar. This earthquakes was generated at a depth of 24 km some 2 km north of El Pinar . It was felt by the people.
- Today’s total has reached 97 earthquakes

[link to earthquake-report.com]

15772 quakes so far at El Hierro....on our way to the biggest volcanic swarm ever?

[link to twitter.com (secure)]

[link to www.google.co.uk (secure)]

try that one Shenue. for some reason I can't supply the original link. on that search there's only one link. click 'quick view' on it.

very interesting shit in there!

DAMNIT!

try it again, but manually take the brackets away from the 'h' in the http after 'search?q=' when copying and pasting the link. I just put the brackets around it to stop the system automatically making a link out of it. i hope it works this time.

it works. i just tried it.

this is hard work.

OK, what you have to do is hit 'reply' to this post, then C+P the link as it appears in the post!

Wonder how he is getting that number?

Sorry its a bad link

I went to the main site and typed in el hierro and alot of articles came up. What is the doc name?

type in search browser

CRcnetbase.com and then search el hierro, a bunch of docs come up so I need the name of the article a\c

Ok never mind I found it, its called chapter 24 slope stability in the canary volcanoes, i will give it a look and post anything important.....

What happened to Id*gits??

He said he had to delete his account for personal reasons and then starts posting under a different name saying he is popping in and out....

If he is popping in & out, why didn't he keep his old account? His name has been taken off all his threads, is that what happens when you delete an account??

Just find it weird.....

He deletes his account and then there is renewed activity...

Has he got the feds after him??....

He said it was for personal reasons. So I'm not asking. Just take it for what it is.

Update 15/09 – 16:12 UTC

- 110 earthquakes. Depth 20 to 22 km. All of the epicenters (last 10) below the historic main crater. It looks like the magma has settled below the current area

updated pic....15780 and counting...
[link to twitter.com (secure)]

enter 'Slope stability in the Canary volcanoes based on geotechnical criteria' into Google and click 'quick view' on the top link

Thanks

This Blog is from a German resident, if you look at the second picture you see the epicentric line. That would cut the island in half and I live 100Km away...but fortunately at 1000m altitude. (I can see the N-west-side of El Hierro from my desk here) But I think the eruption will take place in the southern oceanfloor again. At least I hope so. [link to elhierro1.blogspot.com.es]

But they´re still deep, this could continue for a very long time as well.

Good Morning

Update 16/09 – 12:00 UTC

- 100 earthquakes until 11:19 UTC

Update 16/09 – 12:00 UTC

- The activity subsided a bit, but there have been some more quakes after 08:48 where IGN has stopped listing

Update 16/09 – 09:38 UTC

- 85 earthquakes so far (until 08:48). the last earthquake was a M3.0 at a depth of 19 km
- It looks like IGN is also listing weaker earthquakes now. A 0.9 figures in the list.
- Epicenters are moving a little south

Update 16/09 – 07:46 UTC

- Until 07:35 today, IGN has listed 73 earthquakes. Magnitudes vary from M1.4 (the weakest they are listing but there are hundreds more below this Magnitude) to M2.7. Maximum magnitude decreased a little bit from yesterday (up to M3.2).
- Focal depth remains the same (no penetration into shallower layers)
- Epicenter location is fairly stable (see image below and compare it to the last images yesterday)
- NO more (listed) earthquakes in the El Golfo bay at the 10 km depth layer.
- In line with what could be expected is that the deformations are up again.
- Frontera GPS station has moved North for about 1.5 cm and was also lifted with about 2 cm.
- El Pinar GPS station showed the same movement.
- Restinga GPS station moved a little eastward, did not move along his latitude axis and was inflated most of these 3 stations.
All these data were Ultra Rapid data coming from Prof. Sagiya, a GPS authority in Japan working at the University of Nagoya.
All the mentioned stations operate automatically, which means that nu human is needed to send the data to the computers of the University. Check PINA, FRON and REST stations here.

[link to earthquake-report.com]

if those el julan cliffs go, even that might not be high enough locally

imagine the deformation affecting those cliffs, which is one of the precursors mentioned in that link you can access by typing 'Slope stability in the Canary volcanoes based on geotechnical criteria' into Google and hitting 'quick view' on the first link shown

Just had another 2.8.

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]