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

Now it seems it has been malfunction of the seismographs, basically you cannot trust any data at the moment. It could be more, or none at all.. Makes it more exciting :)

I am so sorry. I hope you stay safe when the quakes come.

Thread: Undersea Quakes Near Cumbre Vieja

Yesterday 1,5 at only 2km depth, magma coming up?!

A swarm of tremors ocurred at new-year's day in the north of the island. [link to 3.bp.blogspot.com] Let's see if it is just a "burp" or if activity is picking up again..

Oh ok, then it must be true indeed.

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Apart from scientific data, the press conference returned to leave out the existing problem between the different bodies involved in the monitoring and control of the volcanism in the Canary Islands. Both González Vallejo and Nemesio Pérez claimed that the IGN - EU is the body which legally has control and volcanic surveillance in the Canary Islands - and which is the linchpin of the Pevolca (where are involved all the authorities and Civil Protection) "met the same day, via email, the existence of these five plumes of gaseous and solid material" that found the ship Hespérides. To the question of why they did not public or rejected it? researchers refer to the IGN. "We have to ask them."

Nemesio Pérez remarked that the eruption (although technically do not want it to call it that but issuance of magmatic material) he had no great importance for the security of the population but "confirms that the magmatic building herrero is more complex than previously thought and instead of form with bags autonomous of lava has a Trident shape". Thus, these data could confirm that the approach of the scientific research in the iron should be reviewed.

Vallejo insisted that it is essential that "there is greater scientific coordination among the institutions involved in this matter because without it, we are lost".

Tufts and acoustic images

The plumes that have become the linchpin to say that there was a second eruption - denied at the time by scientists of the Pevolca - June 27, 2012 "were recorded through acoustic images that have identified the existence of volcanic material emitted from the seabed and to form Tufts which reached 48 meters of height".

The researchers also explained that Tufts (of which it had knowledge a few months ago) were accompanied by a series of warning signs as it is the case that Involcan HIE02 geochemistry station in the West of the island recorded an increase of the activity of the gas radon from the end of April at the beginning of June 2012 reaching values peak 10 times higher than considered normal for this season.

In addition, also noted in the documentation delivered in the press conference that "follow-up and measure the isotopic ratios 3He /4I have in helium dissolved in groundwater from the well San Simón, located in the eastern part of the island, accused the highest level of emission of helio-3 registered since the beginning of the magmatic reactivation of iron".

In addition to these precursor geochemical signals, Involcan announces that at that moment, "increase very accused of the seismic energy released and number of earthquakes of magnitude greater than 2.5 on June 25, 2012".

At the same time, the stations of the network GPS Canaria (Nagoya-Grafcan Involcan-University) measured very significant displacement both vertical and horizontal, accusing elevations from the ground about 3 inches during the first two days of the sismico-deformacional crisis from June 25 to July 9, 2012. To this is added the photographs taken by the Civil Guard helicopter in those days is detected where a patch similar to that produced in La Restinga in the early days of the eruption, although at that time it was credited to swell.

With all this data, Involcan scientists assert that there was this second submarine eruption in El Hierro. That Yes, insist to give absolute certainty is essential to a "dredging of the area" because these data, although conclusive for them, are indirect.


A new scientific controversy opens with respect to surveillance volcanological of El Hierro. Will there be consequences?

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Involcan Researchers Show There Were Two Underwater Erruptions In El Hierro.

scientific team of the Instituto Vulcanológico de Canarias (Involcan) confirms an second submarine in El Hierro eruption in 2012. This eruption took place in the area of El Julan. A rash which was not detected even though there were moments that earthquakes and some other data pointed out that this could have happened. This eruption took place in July 2012 at the same time that was producing and monitoring the eruption of La Restinga.

The results were presented this morning in the Cabildo of Tenerife by several members of Involcan such as the director of this Center, Nemesio Pérez; at the Complutense University of Madrid Luis González Vallejo geologist and volcanologist from Involcan, Pedro Hernández.

In this sense, Vallejo stressed during the press conference that these data have to reflect on surveillance volcanological on the island since the phenomenon went largely unnoticed at the time, although he also made clear that it was an event without the slightest involvement for the population, and that that took place in La Restinga.

Nemesio Pérez pointed out that these data come to put on the table the magmatic complex model of the island of El Hierro.


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Magnitude: 2.7
DateTime: Monday February 18 2013, 16:39:58 UTC
Region: Canary Islands, Spain Region

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El Hierro Volcano activity report – Strong new earthquake swarm has started at El Hierro!

Is this the real life? Is this just El Hierro?
Caught in a landslide, No escape from the volcano
Open your eyes, Look up to the hills and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'ts easy come, easy go, Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me

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easy come easy go -- will you let me go?
Bismillah no -- we will not let you go!

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what does this mean?
is it gonna fall into the ocean

hmmmm

off we go again then!

Very VERY small chance of a landslide, but I wouldn´t count on a mega-tsunami..

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comparison between El Golfo, which collapsed into the sea thousands of years ago, and El Julan sea cliffs, directly over all the action at El Hierro..

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If El Julan goes, any mega tsunami generated, and the generation of a mega tsunami is not a widely accepted theory for events like this, will head for Brazil, at least the strongest part of it will

that's IF you accept the theory. what does your gut tell you? Tens of millions of tons of rock plunging a couple of miles to the bottom of the sea. Ocean Basin Mega tsunami? yes or no?

The science community is split about it, so basically, we're on our own. WE have to figure it out.

According Berkley University (California) these can`t be tremors as the typical signals aren´t there. It should have another cause, but what?

why do you say 'very small' chance?

let's talk facts here. these islands have produced dozens of large slides these past couple of million years, and every one happened DURING volcanic activity, and an unstable cliff is what went

both of those situations are present. why 'small chance' again?