Canary Islands, El Hierro probably is going to erupt today

17/10/2011 @ 17:25 – Canarian government maintains ‘level 1′ emergency status for the area of La Restinga on El Hierro as the underwater eruption causes magma flow to reach near the coast if the island. This ‘emergency level’ includes an exclusion for all air traffic within a radius of 5 miles and sea traffic within a radius of 4 miles.

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reply to post by drphilxr


I see that before think they have equipment out of service ..

For now I see that 3 times, nothing specially ..

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And the latest.
Reports of stream vapours upto 100m above the sea surface of El Hierro & geyser type effects suggest eruption is now close to sea surface.

Ok, So far there have been 11 earthquakes in the Canary Islands today registering over 1.5 on the Richter scale.
The strong sulphur smell and the change in the direction of the tide has delayed the residents of La Restinga returning to their homes. The El Roquillo tunnel opening will go ahead as planned.

reply to post by Tzavros

Hi TZ,
I think the tunnel is only going to be opened for restricted time and for
"- Another decision which has been taken was the reopening of the Los Roquillos tunnel from 08:00 until 20:00 (8 AM until 8 PM) but only for emergency vehicles, trucks of more than 3,500 kilos and transport of dangerous goods"
From

earthquake-report.com...

OT...but isn't Etna running a bit late?
Rainbows
Jane

Some stronger changes on spectrogram graph from El Hierro ..

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reply to post by Dalke07


This is getting very worriesome.
Thank you for keeping us updated, it is very difficult for us 'learners' to understand these charts.
Rainbows
Jane

excellent vids Dalke70, definitely an eruption this time, no doubt about it with that pumice floating (some of it still steaming) on the water and the bubbling sea

Hard to tell from the helicopter position how far it is from La Restinga.
I put the co-ordinates of the Mag 1.1 quake today that had 0km depth which may have been the eruption happening ona composite map, its quite a few km NW of where the two 0km depth quakes were on the 9th when there was a disturbance on the graphs.
Does this match up with the coastline landscape in the vid?

Red markers are 0km events
White markers are the 17th events
Aqua marker events of the 9th



edit: just watched the vid again a few times, seems to be closer to La Restinga than the marker on the map, maybe it wan't it then.
There are no events in IGN data list that match up with the vid location.

reply to post by angelchemuel

Latest info from canariesnews
18/10/2011 @ 08:50 – The continuous tremors detected on the island of El Hierro seem to have decreased in intensity,
OT and yes, Etna is having a little snooze hoping we won't notice when she has the next episode.

reply to post by Tzavros


Over at Eruptions (now moved to Wired.com) they seem to be thinking Etna tomorrow/48 hours....this could be a busy few days for you TZ!
Also I have just posted this on the EQ link....any thoughts?
OK...El Hierro activity seems to be reducing, but could someone tell me if I am right saying that there seems to be increased activity ALL OVER the Canaries generally?
Here is a link to seismo charts for the region all neatly put on one page.
www.01.ign.es...#

Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by angelchemuel

Yes, I agree about the activity but I am not an El Hierro expert, this is a new one for me. Canaries News just tweet me when something happens. Today there have been 3 earthquakes registered around the island of El Hierro, all measuring over 2 degrees on the Richter scale. Strangley wonderful to watch a possible new island being born.
As for Etna, they could be spot on if they are looking at the same signs as me. Yesterday showed all the signs that in 2 days she could go again. Had nothing today yet.

reply to post by Tzavros


What's the weather like over the Canaries? PuterMan seems to think storms are the cause of the seismic readings in the Canaries.
Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by angelchemuel

This could cause storms.
The Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has raised to yellow the alert for high temperatures expected tomorrow, Tuesday 11th October 2011 for temperatures over 36 degrees Celsius in the Canary Islands. The alert will remain active between 10.00 and 19.00, will mainly affect mountainous areas. Temperatures of up to 36 degrees will affect the islands of Gran Canaria (high areas, east, south and west coasts) and Tenerife (La Orotava and Vilaflor, east, south and west coasts), while 34 degrees is expected in Gran Canaria (north), Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma (west) and Tenerife (north coast).
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Earthquakes and pressure moving slowly to north of El Hierro ..

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1106563 20/10/2011 13:37:10 27.6643 -18.0698 18 2.0 4 SW EL PINAR.IHI [+]
1106537 20/10/2011 11:49:10 27.7696 -18.0474 23 1.8 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106544 20/10/2011 11:46:34 27.7806 -18.0809 23 1.7 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106549 20/10/2011 11:40:15 27.7986 -18.0671 22 1.6 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106492 20/10/2011 11:08:29 27.6772 -18.0406 18 1.5 4 SW EL PINAR.IHI [+]
1106448 20/10/2011 09:19:33 27.9209 -18.1141 11 1.7 4 ATLÁNTICO-CANARIAS
1106346 20/10/2011 00:13:27 27.6580 -18.0820 16 1.5 4 SW EL PINAR.IHI [+]
1106342 19/10/2011 23:24:12 27.7909 -18.0610 22 2.0 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106332 19/10/2011 19:29:22 27.7857 -18.0542 23 2.3 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106331 19/10/2011 18:05:35 27.6391 -18.0220 15 1.8 4 SW EL PINAR.IHI [+]
1106323 19/10/2011 18:03:17 27.7842 -18.0557 22 2.6 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106315 19/10/2011 16:23:14 27.7661 -18.0587 23 1.8 4 W FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106301 19/10/2011 14:15:18 27.7953 -18.0689 21 1.5 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106300 19/10/2011 13:02:20 27.7435 -18.0772 23 1.8 4 W FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106273 19/10/2011 12:18:37 27.7873 -18.0464 21 1.7 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106341 19/10/2011 03:57:13 27.8089 -18.0406 25 2.0 4 NW FRONTERA.IHI

Some new update ..

Last 48 hours some stronger earthquake activity, pressure still going to north of El Hierro ..

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www.01.ign.es...

The major risk in the current eruption cycle of El Hierro is the risk that new eruption vent is going to open up nearby a human population without warning. But El Hierro has a lot of cinder cones from earlier eruption cycles. That creates the risk that a new eruption vent is going to open up on dry land without warning. But it is impossible to know when and where that might happen.

Little seems to have changed in the eruption of El Hierro since my last update on it. That was on 19 October, 2011. Harmonic tremor is constant, but appears to have dropped a little in the past few days. But with the fluctuation that is often increases again before it drops down again. This means that the eruption is ongoing, but is loosing power to continue at current eruption vent. This was not unexpected. This has however not slowed down inflation in El Hierro from what I can gather on GPS data on El Hierro.

As the current eruption vents close down it seems that earthquakes have started again under El Hierro. But the earthquakes have the depth from 28 km and up to around 5 km. This strongly suggests that new magma is entering under El Hierro and is again increasing the pressure inside the El Hierro magma sill (or chamber, but note that El Hierro does not have a stable magma chamber it seems). This increases earthquakes while the magma does not have any good path up to the surface. When a new path for the magma starts to form again, a large earthquake swarm is going to take place in El Hierro. It is not going to be anything bigger then already has taken place in El Hierro already. With the largest earthquakes going up to Mb5.0 in size. That is at least my opinion.

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Is similar situation like yesterday ..

Last 3 days some stronger earthquake activity, pressure still going to north of El Hierro ..

1107005 22/10/2011 11:51:47 27.8855 -18.1250 17 1.9 mbLg ATLÁNTICO-CANARIAS [+]
1107003 22/10/2011 11:19:55 27.7854 -18.0563 23 2.3 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107001 22/10/2011 10:50:45 27.8338 -18.0774 20 1.8 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107002 22/10/2011 10:47:25 27.8795 -18.0727 2 1.6 mbLg ATLÁNTICO-CANARIAS [+]
1106993 22/10/2011 10:31:48 27.7717 -18.0415 21 2.8 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106992 22/10/2011 09:46:16 27.7631 -18.0392 22 1.9 mbLg W FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106979 22/10/2011 08:21:10 27.7329 -18.0219 24 2.1 mbLg SW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106976 22/10/2011 04:10:40 27.8268 -18.0506 20 1.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106972 22/10/2011 03:52:50 27.8417 -18.0484 20 1.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106959 22/10/2011 02:47:22 43.0968 -0.3002 2.2 mbLg E ARUDY.FRA [+]
1106970 22/10/2011 02:40:14 27.7871 -18.0417 23 1.7 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106969 22/10/2011 02:38:59 27.8023 -18.0554 21 1.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106968 22/10/2011 02:32:57 27.7982 -18.0558 23 1.7 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106946 22/10/2011 02:30:57 27.7484 -18.0313 22 2.3 mbLg W FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106967 22/10/2011 01:58:58 36.3797 -9.7262 15 1.8 mbLg SW CABO DE SAN VICENTE [+]
1106942 22/10/2011 00:17:52 27.7721 -18.0421 21 1.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106945 22/10/2011 00:15:36 27.8031 -18.0596 21 1.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1106941 22/10/2011 00:10:58 27.8467 -18.0841 20 1.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI



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Yes indeed, the tremors have moved offshore to the NW, quite dramatically so today 22nd UTC


and the energy released (so far today) 0.494 tonnes of TNT, up from 0.303, 0.135, 0.231, 0.122, 0.172, 0.130, 0.272 going backwards 7 days
compare with the last week
Hierro Daily Maps

Update for 23.10, for first 12 hours ..

Earthquakes are still rising ..

1107202 23/10/2011 09:19:47 27.7822 -18.0538 21 1.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107191 23/10/2011 07:02:18 27.7873 -18.0313 21 2.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107201 23/10/2011 06:47:18 27.8184 -18.0712 22 2.1 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107180 23/10/2011 05:19:56 27.7861 -18.0362 25 1.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107163 23/10/2011 05:18:20 36.8082 -2.9208 Sentido 2.0 mbLg SW DALÍAS.AL [+]
1107157 23/10/2011 05:07:20 27.7976 -18.0503 21 2.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107147 23/10/2011 04:52:33 27.7760 -18.0442 21 3.1 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107177 23/10/2011 04:45:48 27.7720 -18.0415 22 1.8 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107178 23/10/2011 04:44:42 27.7960 -18.0560 22 2.1 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107131 23/10/2011 04:07:26 27.7960 -18.0467 22 2.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107137 23/10/2011 03:37:52 27.8625 -18.0619 19 1.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107136 23/10/2011 03:36:02 27.8005 -18.0352 23 1.7 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107135 23/10/2011 03:30:50 27.6282 -17.9945 16 1.7 mbLg S EL PINAR.IHI [+]
1107123 23/10/2011 03:25:28 27.7909 -18.0349 20 1.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107122 23/10/2011 03:20:50 27.8011 -18.0484 22 1.7 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107120 23/10/2011 02:59:44 27.7836 -18.0549 22 1.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107119 23/10/2011 02:50:57 27.6661 -18.0923 17 1.7 mbLg SW EL PINAR.IHI [+]
1107117 23/10/2011 02:14:05 27.8382 -18.0662 19 1.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107116 23/10/2011 02:05:27 27.8326 -18.0557 20 1.7 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107115 23/10/2011 02:00:19 27.7973 -18.0502 21 2.1 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107114 23/10/2011 01:56:28 27.7822 -18.0467 23 2.3 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107094 23/10/2011 01:45:28 27.7931 -18.0474 21 2.2 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107113 23/10/2011 01:42:00 27.8370 -18.0548 20 1.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107112 23/10/2011 01:39:19 27.8281 -18.0521 21 1.7 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107111 23/10/2011 01:37:40 27.7245 -18.0301 22 1.6 mbLg SW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107110 23/10/2011 01:37:01 27.7887 -18.0582 23 1.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107109 23/10/2011 01:33:34 27.7943 -18.0517 23 2.0 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107108 23/10/2011 01:30:39 27.7368 -18.0588 21 1.6 mbLg SW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107107 23/10/2011 01:27:17 27.8006 -18.0496 20 1.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107106 23/10/2011 01:23:49 27.7981 -18.0435 22 2.2 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107105 23/10/2011 01:20:21 27.8062 -18.0337 22 1.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107104 23/10/2011 01:14:43 27.8448 -18.0767 22 1.8 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107103 23/10/2011 01:11:51 27.8129 -18.0573 17 1.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107102 23/10/2011 01:03:11 27.7685 -18.0375 23 1.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107101 23/10/2011 00:58:51 27.7644 -18.0382 24 1.7 mbLg W FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107087 23/10/2011 00:56:42 27.8324 -18.0642 21 1.7 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107090 23/10/2011 00:56:05 27.7850 -18.0541 23 1.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107086 23/10/2011 00:54:50 27.7974 -18.0634 24 1.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107082 23/10/2011 00:52:55 27.8029 -18.0517 23 2.5 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107088 23/10/2011 00:47:16 27.8262 -18.0678 21 1.6 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107089 23/10/2011 00:28:02 27.7679 -18.0423 23 1.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI [+]
1107099 23/10/2011 00:23:37 36.3355 -4.6728 92 1.7 mb ALBORÁN OESTE

Some stronger pressure built today around other islands, eartqvekes are stronger and frequent ..

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