Canary Islands, El Hierro probably is going to erupt today

Some strange changes today on Fuerteventura graphs ..

Maybe is some equipment error ..

WOW.....what is that? And on another island too!
Are these islands starting to talk to each other?
Rainbows
Jane

reply to post by angelchemuel


All Island are connected with one big magma chamber, I read that somewhere ..

Is very strange, probably some error ..

Will see very soon ..

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Peace ..

Ha! I read that somewhere too....but have to admit I just thought "possible". If this is the case and these readings at Fuerteventura are showing something new happening here.....then the whole Canary Islands could be in big trouble!
Have you still no idea what these 'spkes' and 'curves' mean? May be PuterMan should throw his eye over it?
Rainbows
Jane

Glitch on that graph, nothing to worry about.
The entire graph for that days is useless by the way and back to normal since today.

From what I understood and read (not exact science but from people with better knowledge of that zone) there's no real magma chamber beneath there. It seems it's magma rising from the mantle (upper mantle) and making it's way to the surface through fractured layers.
I've also read, I think it was on Jon's blog that there are a lot of sub terrain galeries and conduites there at the Canary Islands making it easy for the magma to rise.
As I said, not exact science, confirmed by the local authorities. ;-)

Latest update from canariesnews

28/10/2011 @ 09:19 – New 3D video released by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación showing shape and form of the underwater volcano on El Hierro.

We have stronger eartqvekes every day, pressure building up ..

Today we have two M 3.9, looks like it's going to surface slowly ..

1108809 30/10/2011 13:05:54 27.7698 -18.0398 22 3.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI

1108771 30/10/2011 07:46:35 27.7866 -18.0447 22 3.9 mbLg NW FRONTERA.IHI

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Pressure and tremors slowly build on south Canary islands area ..

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Latest news from canariesnews

01/11/2011 @ 20:32 – Experts advising the Canarian Government on the El Hierro volcano eruption crisis have advised of the possibility of a new eruption to the north of the island after a series of earthquakes, reaching up to 3.9 on the Richter scale.

Just in from canariesnews
There has been a 4° earthquake detected this morning to the north coast of El Hierro as the government prepare for new eruption - More soon.

Update.

Military personnel & materials sent to El Hierro as experts predict new eruption on or near coast of El Hierro.
Not looking good.

First underwater images from El Hierro.
Not much life to see, all plants are gone, didn't see any fish either.
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That is interesting. I had never thought what happens to the environment after an underwater eruption. After the eruption has stopped how will the recovery be? On land the soil is more fertile with extra nitrates etc. But if fertiliser, with extra nitrate gets into my local waterways, the Norfolk Broads it is disastrous as all the extra nutrients cause algae to grow and native plants and fish can be choked.
I will have to do some research.

Another update
02/11/2011 @ 16:21 – So far today there have been 72 earthquakes around the island of El Hierro, the largest one so far to hit the island was a 4.3° quakes this morning at 07:54.
The 4.3 was upgraded from this mornings 4° earthquake to the north of Frontera.

I am afraid that another eruption is going to happen very soon

Could be tonight or tomorrow.

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 (after revision) occurred at 18:10 UTC at a depth of 23 km. Epicenter was in the El Golfo bay. And it was felt by inhabitants of the island. Furthermore, a strong earthquake took place this morning (magnitude 4.3) as a spike on the harmonic tremor graph.

According to Involcan, the amount of CO² in the air at El Hierro has never been so high than now and remember that CO² in the air is part of the pre-eruptive signals of a volcano...

Yes, it is going to happen.
If I were living there, I would get out NOW.


Regards,
Ptolomeo

reply to post by Ptolomeo


I'm with you on they need to get out now or at the very least have a substantial plan that can be expidited immediately (and they may not be quick enough). The thing with is that They are uncertain where the next eruption/fissure/large quake will occure. There is Magma under the whole of the Island - remember the Island /Islands in the area was formed by just what is happening now. Next event IMHO is going to be much bigger than what we have seen before in the area for a great many, many years. My prayers to all of the folks in the whole of the Canary Islands area.

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Why waiting for the pre-eruption signs? Why waiting for the eruption to leave?

I would evacuate the whole island now as a precautionary measure.


Regards,
Ptolomeo

I would just like to say thanks to all the contributors to this thread. If it wasn't for you guys, I'd have no idea that this was going on right now. It does appear that a new eruption is imminent. I agree that they should be looking at evacuating by now, as we can't be certain of how dangerous this could get. All the best to the people on El Hierro, and the rest of the Canary Islands.

Not looking great on the graphs and I agree with an eruption being immenent now if it didn't already occur.

We're moving from volcanic tremors to harmonic tremors again (can be clearly seen on the CHIE graph).
Also the quake at around 8:56 (graph time) could clearly be a sign that an eruption is immenent.

I've been looking for anything to do with this in the mainstream media and found absolutely nothing..

I've also looked on several Geology, Earthquake and Volcano reporting websites and no mention of it on them either. Including the USGS website that has no reported earthquakes in that area at all in the last week.

So if your getting 4.0's and above, why isn't it being recorded anywhere else on the planet ?



Peace

Rock Ape.

Originally posted by Rock Ape
I've been looking for anything to do with this in the mainstream media and found absolutely nothing..

I've also looked on several Geology, Earthquake and Volcano reporting websites and no mention of it on them either. Including the USGS website that has no reported earthquakes in that area at all in the last week.

So if your getting 4.0's and above, why isn't it being recorded anywhere else on the planet ?



Peace

Rock Ape.

Espcially for you brother

www.01.ign.es...

so you can check it out for yourself.