El Hierro

[kevin2003]

Shine on you crazy diamond![]

[kevin2003]

quote:Originally posted by fifi

I had great taste in music when I was a child.

Wha Happened?

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[fifi]

It improved later. I used to follow a great band one time.[][]

[kevin2003]

[:I][:I][:I][:I]

[nacnud]

My wife just heard Sean Dunphy and has told me to get a life, this from a woman that still goes to see Dickie Rock. OMG

[fifi]

The Christmas Polka really rocks[][][][] I used to love Joe Dolan, his concerts were great fun. I saw Dickie a few times but wasnt mad about him.

[kevin2003]

....great bunch of lads.[]

[fifi]

Indeed [] Sean Dunphy was the one at the front with the cravat.

[kevin2003]

Tooooo much information![]

[longships]

The concrete and the Clay

 My mate after being hit by a IED was singing this!!!

[longships]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceY2zAMkCqQ

[longships]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fa6awpRP1Q&feature=related

[longships]

8 songs to listen to during the Earthquake!!


http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/10/top_8_songs_to_listen_to_durin.php

[fifi]

Your poor friend. Hope he was ok. Some very funny song suggestions there Longships.[][][]


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AVCAN have been discussing the possibilities tonight of what MAY happen. At the moment the eruptions are still at stage one of what may be a four stage event. This is their statement. (Translated)

Now what? The seismicity of the last two weeks was decreasing in activity, indicating that the volcanic system would relax, until 3 days ago, when it began to rise again giving a Carnot function or a devil's staircase which confirms the start of a second volcanic reactivation without having finished the first, and then there are two questions Is it the same system or another? What can happen?

To know if the same volcanic system or not is difficult to know, but seeing that the first swarm began on the same area, although a little higher is sobering that is the same. Right now there is more data to confirm and perhaps is an independent, two bags of magma and not just one. This course is a hypothesis.

As can happen, we have 5 possibilities:

1 - follow the underwater eruption as before and is finished in a couple of weeks.
2 - follow the underwater eruption several months and rise to an Island ....
3 - to open new points near land or on land near the sea with a phreatomagmatic eruption on the surface in NNW-SSE alignment, including a chance to do so in the north of the island
4 - to open up the dorsal mouths with a strombolian eruption and several mouths of lava and ash walking along the NNW-SSE fissure.
5 -  an eruption like the San Juan, in 1949 Tanganasoga area by interaction with the aquifer dating a VEI2-3-4, a pen of 4-5km in height (the St. John expelled 10 million m cubic ash) and as in the case of Chaorra with specialized mouths and several lava mouths will drop from the summit area, possibly on both sides, the Gulf and the Julan area NNW-SSE fissure.

Tanganasoga volcano area.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXBmh-qND_8

[jand]

Update 24/10 – 22:35 UTC:  Earthquake-Report.com is disappointed that the Ramon Margalef is not openly communicating on what is observed. El Pais wrote a couple of hours ago "Por su parte, los 10 científicos pertenecientes a la tripulación del buque oceanográfico Ramón Margalef continúa en la zona de las Calmas en donde tienen previsto estudiar la erupción submarina con la ayuda de un vehículo submarino de observación remota." Translated, it means that the 10 scientists are continuing their observation of the Las Calmas sea with the help of the remotely operated robot. Why all this secrecy? People are constantly criticizing politicians but they are at least open communicators at El Hierro. We hope that the Margalef scientists will have a meeting with the Pevolca committee tomorrow, will explain the results of their findings  and will also show the first video footage from the ROV, even at a distance from the supposed fissure (where water quality and temperature allows the ROV to dive).

[jand]

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Jón Frímann
Few days ago a new magma intrusion did start in El Hierro volcano, Canary Islands, Spain. But this means that the pressure is increasing inside El Hierro current magma still. The new magma is going the same path as before, and is forming a new sill north-west part of El Hierro volcano. It seems that this magma has not yet encountered the magma that is already inside El Hierro volcano. What happens when the new magma encounters the slightly older magma is a open question. But I am sure what happens is going to be interesting and is going to create a new eruption vent in my opinion.

The new magma intrusion in El Hierro. It is not yet in contact with the existing magma in El Hierro. It is hard to know exactly what happens when the new magma gets into contact with the magma that is already in El Hierro. Copyright of this picture belongs to Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

What is really interesting about this new magma is that this seems to be a new intrusion from a new conduct below El Hierro. This conduct does not appear in the earthquakes that started in July 2011 to today. There is a great risk that more new conducts are going to open up under El Hierro in this same manner. But this means that new magma can start to flow into El Hierro at new point under El Hierro. But that is always marked by a increase in earthquake activity where a new magma intrusion starts in El Hierro. This new magma intrusion into El Hierro appears to be rather small at the moment. But it is most likely going to grow over the next few weeks.


Current harmonic tremor levels in El Hierro volcano. Given by the current harmonic tremor level this eruption remains small. But the harmonic tremor is poorly to not being detected on nearby Canary Islands. The spike in the tremor plot is a earthquake. Copyright of this picture belongs to Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

It seems that IGN did rescale the tremor plot in the early beginning of the eruption. Making me draw false conclusions on what was going on in El Hierro. But it seems that the eruption is stable and has been from the beginning. But so far this is a small eruption, based on the tremor data. I say it is small because the harmonic tremor is not detected about ~60 km away from El Hierro. As a example in the eruption of Grímsfjall volcano, the harmonic tremor was detected clearly up to ~200 km away from the eruption. But the harmonic tremor signals how much magma is moving inside a volcano up to the surface. But not how explosive the eruption is. But explosions can and are detected on seismometers when a eruption goes explosive.

[fifi]

Mega Tsunami theory never proven, local Tsunamis on the Islands with waves of 50 metres proven. La Vangardia (Translated)

"It's pure speculation in the past a tsunami originating in the Canary Islands came to the U.S."
Luis Ignacio Gonzalez de Vallejo, Professor of Geological Engineering from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid said however, that in the Canary Islands there have been  waves of up to 50 meters created by large landslides

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120 Kilometres of contaminated sea



Location of yesterdays earthquakes.

[fifi]

Sccientists are trying to figure out what is happening to Fuerteventuras graph. It is completely different to what is showing on the other  stations on the Islands.

[kevin2003]

I think it's because the scientist with the green felt tip pen was on the batter last night.[]

[fifi]

....and they stayed sober in Lanzarote [][][]

Nice and smooth where you live anyway Kevin.[]

[jand]

From Earthquake Report

Update 25/10 – 15:18 UTC : The image doesn't look very spectacular but the findings are.  The base diameter of the new volcano shape (as they call it) is 700 meters.  It has a present height of 100 meter and a crater of 120 meter.  The base of the crater is measured at a depth of 300 meter.
We congratulate the crew from the Ramon Margalef with these great findings.

Update 25/10 – 15:00 UTC : The ship which we hoped that it would arrive 2 weeks earlier, has done the job where he was called for. Finding the eruption crater.


A team of Scientists of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), public agency under the Ministry of science and innovation research, Has Been located and mapped the foci of the eruption of the submarine volcano in El Hierro That During The scientific mission since Oct. 23 Developing in the area are aboard the ship Ramon Margalef.
The scientific team, led by Juan Acosta and Francisco Sanchez, you edifice of volcanic Locate a new creation of conical shape at the With A base diameter of 700 meters, a height of 100 meters and a crater of about 120 meters of width. The base of the crater is located at 300 meters deep. Also, the use of and-through high frequency types, it Has Been Possible to locate the columns of gas and fluid That volcano and emits the other points of emission (fissures).
The authors of the discovery highlights is the first it That Which is Achieved Under These Conditions around the world, Given That the volcano and volcanic Activities in the associated timing of optimal STI Eruptive activity on the Merits Has Been investigated. This early localization and characterization of Will allow the volcanic phenomenon to study the temporal evolution of These phenomena and Facilitate the interpretation and Understanding of the volcanic phenomenon in the Islands.
Ship first scientific mission
Ramon Margalef The ship departed from Vigo on Tuesday October 18 en route to Tenerife, where he arrived on Saturday. On Sunday morning finally came to El Hierro. The Ramon Margalef, until a few weeks ago still in the testing phase, accelerated its set-up to lead this scientific mission, which involves its release. Its aim is to study volcanic activity in the area and its consequences in the seabed of the Canary Islands and in its ecosystem.
The ship is carrying a remote monitoring underwater vehicle called Liropus, able to observe and ecosystems sample up to 2,000 meters deep.
The oceanographic campaign in which these discoveries have been made in collaboration with the Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN) and the Canarian Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society (ACIISI), under support of the Scientific Committee PEVOLCA.

[jand]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/noticiacanaria/6280208338/in/photostream

[fifi]

Finally some real evidence.[][]  (Yes I must be sad because IM SO EXCITED)[]

  Ramon Margalef locates the sources of underwater volcano eruption in El Hierro

        It is the first time directly mapping the birth of an undersea volcano
        This finding will facilitate the interpretation and understanding of volcanic phenomena in the Canary Islands
        The ship of the IEO accelerated its set-up to lead this scientific mission in Canary Island waters.
        A team of scientists from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), public research body under the Ministry of Science and Innovation, has been located and mapped the outbreaks of the eruption of underwater volcano in El Hierro during the scientific mission from the past 23 October, being developed in the area on board the ship Ramon Margalef.

        The scientific team, led by Juan Acosta and Francisco Sanchez, has located a newly created volcano cone-shaped, with a base diameter of 700 meters, a height of 100 meters and a crater about 120 meters wide. The base of the crater is located 300 meters deep. Also, using higher frequency echosounders has been possible to locate the columns of gases and fluids emitted by the volcano and other emission points (cracks).

        The authors emphasize that the finding is the first to be achieved in these conditions throughout the world, has been investigated since the volcano and associated volcanic activity in the optimal timing of eruptive activity on the merits. This early localization and characterization of volcanic phenomenon will study the temporal evolution of these phenomena and facilitate the interpretation and understanding of volcanic phenomena on the islands.



Digital terrain model of the new volcano that has been detected. The white dashed circle marks the base of the new volcano. The dark area corresponds marked as a possible crater mouth of the volcano, with possible emission of gases, fluids and lava. The white dots indicate the depth in meters. Image obtained by the scientific team of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) on board the Ramon Margalef. 25/10/11 ACN Press. (Figures released by the Ministry of Science and Innovation)





Digital terrain model for an overview of the Rift south of El Hierro. From the crater and SW direction shows the crack in which effusive activity has been detected. The volcano is located on the western flank of the South Rift of El Hierro. Image obtained by the scientific team of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) on board the Ramon Margalef. 25/10/11 ACN Press. (Figures released by the Ministry of Science and Innovation)


PS. Sorry about the two stories being the same. In my excitement I didnt see jands post. The next few days should be interesting.[]

[jand]

No probs at all Fifi at least it brings credence to my post .

[kevin2003]

[kevin2003]

quote:Originally posted by fifi

Nice and smooth where you live anyway Kevin.[]

....always nice...never smooth.[]

[jand]

A robot submarine is to be sent down to the sea bed off El Hierro on Wednesday to gather information on salinity and water temperature following the recent underwater volcanic eruption off the island.

It's understood the remotely operated robot can operate up to a depth of 2,000 metres.

The ROV Liropus 2000 is from the oceanographic research vessel the 'Ramón Margalef', which has been at El Hierro since Sunday to observe the situation and gather data. The scientists on board the ship announced on Tuesday that the volcanic shape has a base diameter of 700 metres, is 100 metres high with a crater of 120 metres.

The crater base lies at a depth of 300 metres.

Undersea tremors have been continuing in the area. There were up to 14 on Tuesday morning, all of them to the west or northwest of Frontera at a depth of between 17 to 25 kilometres. Their intensity ranged from 1.6 to 2.7 on the Richter scale.

[fifi]

The Ramon Margalef will today investigate the El Golfo (Frontera) area where the latest epicentre is. It has been confirmed that the new volcano and fissures which were mapped were in the La Restinga area, 2400 metres from the coast where the first eruption happened.



Earthquake locations to date.

[pennylane]

The bloody earth moved for us at 7.30 every morning with the road works at the top of the road..practically outside our window !

Have to add, gorgeous apartment though and had a fab time back in Fuerte.......

woke up this morning with virul, swollen glands and sore throat..back to reality eh..

so till next year <3 xxxx

Glen

[fifi]

Hi PL welcome back . Hope you will be feeling better soon.x



Current Volcanic Islands (AVCAN) 19:55 We hear reports that something strange happens between Sabinosa and white sands, we are to see if we can confirm and verify it, it seems that after a loud noise, they saw white vapor then has been turned to brown and earthy looks are already several neighbors. The origin seems to be on the ground (Enrique)