Undersea Quakes Near Cumbre Vieja

This isn´t near and the whole Cumbre Vieja theory is nonsense anyway. Doom-off..

[link to tudelft.nl]

You must know that the original research had been sponsored by USA insurance company...hmmm...

2012-12-17 10:08:21.01hr 27min ago 28.85 N 15.58 W 40 4.6 CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

First, I believe that the risk for any future vulcanic eruptions on La Palma is extraordinally small, as we lie on a tectonic plate that is drifting away eastwards from the hot spot that formed the Canaries in first place.

Second, as far as I know there is virtually no water in the southern section of la Palma, this is why we have the canal that takes down water all the way from Barlovento on the northern coast. So even if there was an eruption there would hardly be a question of the water boiling and expanding to the extent it would crack up the island.

Third, we´ve had 7 eruptions in the last 500 years, all of them on the southern side, and God knows how many before (no records before the Conquest). So why did nothing happen then?

Fourth, even if there was an eruption, and even if there was a huge landslide, you simply can´t know if it would be a gradual or a sudden collapse. In fact, somewhere in the Hawaiis (which are considered to be very similar in their geology to the Canaries) this is exactly what is happening – a slope sliding down into the sea at a rate of a couple of millimeters each year, since about forever.

Fifth, first time this theory was launched no one took any particular interest. But then we had that tragic tsunami in South East Asia, and then it was promtly re-launched, getting, of course, an inmediate and worldwide reaction. To use a great humanitarian tragedy as a basis to launch a personal theory is not serious science, period.

Simon Day evidently choose the wrong career, he would make a fortune as a Hollywood screenwriter.

Day's theory and the media around it were out in 2000 and before. Its also been a long time subject of study before that by German geophysics institutes.