El Hierro eruption

[aspasia]

IGN registered eleven tremors between 4.30 am and 8am this morning in the general La Frontera area. They ranged between 1.7 and 2.8 on the Richter scale at a depth of between 20 and 24 km. It doesn't appear that any of the activity was felt by the public. JA

[aspasia]

 IGN recorded another cluster of tremors between 6pm yesterday and 2.50 this afternoon. There were 16 in total, all between 1.6 and 2.3 degrees on the Richter scale and at a depth of between 15 and 19 km; 14 of them occurred within the space of two and a half hours, between 9.52 and half past midnight, and all but one were in the El Golfo region – the last one was northeast of Valverde. None were felt by the public. JA

[aspasia]

IGN has recorded more than 60 tremors in El Hierro since 9.30 last evening. Three of the stronger ones have been felt by the public, the largest was just after 9am this morning, of 3.8 on the Richter scale, at a depth of 19 km. Geologists are following the evolution of the situation in case a new eruption phase is about to start.

[Nova]

Ooh how exciting!   

[aspasia]

117 tremors since midnight is the count from El Hierro as at 1.30 this afternoon. Six have registered either 3 or 3.1 on the Richter scale: one at 2.41am, then two within a minute of each other at 4.10 and 4.11am, others followed at 8.40, 8.49  and 10.40am. All have been at a depth of between 18 and 20km. JA

[Nova]

It's starting again! 

[Perikles]

It's starting again! 

It didn't really start much last time.

[aspasia]

 More and stronger - 165 tremors over 1.5 on the Richter scale were recorded today, and  between 4.15 and 6pm, nine were registered between 3 and 3.5, several of which were felt by the public. All were located under the peak of El Hierro, and appeared to be moving southwards towards La Restinga, at a depth of between 17 and 23km. Geologists say that since the present quakes started at 9.30pm on Sunday evening, they have not stopped, which is how the last eruption started. JA

[aspasia]

The Canarian Government, in collaboration with IGN (Instituto Geológico Nacional) and Involcan (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias), has activated a yellow volcanic alert for the areas of El Julan and La Dehesa, unpopulated regions in the south and southwest of El Hierro. The yellow alert allows for information and the activation of vigilance resources for eruptive processes, said the director general de Seguridad y Emergencias del Gobierno de Canarias, Juan Manuel Santana, who explained that the decision was taken after detecting a significant increase of seismic movement and land deformation, said to have been created rapidly and increasing to 3cm since activity restarted three days ago (in the whole of the previous eruptive process the maximum deformation was 5cm). Experts say they don't expect an eruption imminently, but confirmed there is magma movement  – and that the eruption has reactivated. JA

[aspasia]

A tremor of 4 on the Richter scale was registered this evening at 7.55pm, large enough to be easily felt by the public in the Frontera/El Pinar area, and which set car alarms off in La Restinga. This is the strongest quake since the volcano reactivated. Today more than 160 tremors over 1.5 have been recorded. JA