Seismic tremor off south Tenerife felt by public

[Malteser Monkey]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5015221/Experts-called-monitor-La-Palma-volcano.html

[Janet]

Mostly true, as it happens ... apart from "after fears that an active volcano may erupt." It's also wrong that "La Palma is ... considered the most 'active' in the archipelago" ... that's Gran Canaria, actually!

They're not anticipating an eruption, as is hidden in the comment that "a team is to be sent to La Palma to carry out CO2 profiles and structural studies of Cumbre Vieja". If Cumbre Vieja does anything, it will split and fall because of the effective hot water boiler inside it, odd in terms of the structure of our volcanoes here.

What I'm reading from seismologists and vulcanologists here is that there is absolutely no deformation of the peak so no eruption is considered remotely likely. They are saying it's pretty much unchartered territory, with an "anomaly" that could redefine what is normal for such a volcano, but which might be leading to something. What they're studying is the potential for the slip that they know is coming at some point.

[Malteser Monkey]

Well let's hope the don't probe too deeply 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

I am just grateful they've called in experts rather than José Bloggos. 

[Nova]

Did anyone else feel a tremor at about 3.30am this morning??  I know I watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose yesterday but I can usually tell when something's a dream and I was so sure it was real that I opened my eyes and checked the time.

Ok, so I would have been a bit freaked out if it had been 3:00am exactly    but it was about 3.27am so I decided it was an earthquake and went back to sleep.

[Michael]

Krakatoa could go off next door at 03.30 and I wouldn't feel it. 

[Janet]

there's no record of one last night ... 

[lynno52]

Oh @Pyewacket  - the earth moved for you, but only in your dreams     

[Marion]

Nada

[Nova]

Oh @Pyewacket  - the earth moved for you, but only in your dreams     

sounds about right