El Hierro

[fifi]

Two more videos on this link. The second one seems to show activity right beside the rocks where the men are standing.http://grancanariatv.blogspot.com/2011/11/video-burbujeo-en-el-hierro-desde-muy.html?spref=tw

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http://www.visitaelhierro.com/index.php/noticias/92-el-cabildo-de-el-hierro-costeara-necesidades-de-los-evacuados-por-la-erupcion?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter (Translated)


The government team of the Cabildo de El Hierro has announced a package of direct aid to mitigate the effects of seismic-volcanic crisis on citizens and businesses of El Hierro to be covered by funds of the institution. The president, Alpidio Armas, and the minister Maria del Carmen Morales reported that basic needs will be met regarding the purchase of food and hygiene, among others, as well as the acquisition of drugs. Also defray rent and electricity and water costs for those affected by the preventive evacuations and help defray the costs of the education of their children moved out of the island. The aid package includes, in turn, the costs associated with transport of the neighbors who are outside their residence. Also completed the commissioning of two offices, one in El Pinar and another in Frontera, information and management of the aid provided by both the council and by other authorities, as already announced by the State and having to do with ICO credits, deferrals to Social Security, IBI, among others. "Above all we want to help neighbors in the sometimes complicated paperwork that no one ceases to receive assistance in this matter and at the same time providing a service to other government records because the defendants better come," said Armas Alpidio .

These offices will also be informed of the various measures taken by the various banks with a presence on the island to help customers affected by this crisis and put today CajaSiete For example, with great presence in the Valley of the Gulf and the El Pinar, announced via press release that condones the fees and interest of loans in August, September and October, quotas have already been entered in the accounts of its customers. Is also provided at no cost to advance aid from governments and establish new aids as the phenomenon is developed. Both represent their different political forces, also announced that they suspend their campaign rallies until next weekend and will allocate money from the campaign to contribute to this kind of direct aid to citizens, "as a gesture of the need to join efforts to help small, "said Armas. On the other hand, in ordinary plenary session unanimously approved the draft work "end of the congress hall and auditorium of La Peña", whose budget is 3.8 million euros. This agreement will soon put up for tender this important work for El Hierro would happen to have their first auditorium and conference hall.

[jand]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM2VzfYDZes

The video is in Spanish but still interesting to watch.

[jand]

http://twitter.com/#!/volcanhierro


TV1 informa de que han aparecidos animales muertos en la Restinga, esperamos confirmación de los vecinos

11 minutes ago

This is saying that TV1 are informing there are dead animals on La Restinga but are awaiting confirmation.

[jand]

From El Hierro twitter

Nos informan que Presidencia no quiere instalar webcam porque perjudicaría el turismo, da imagen de inseguridad y peligro

Translated

We report that president does not want to install because it would hurt tourism webcam gives image of insecurity and danger

[jand]

Update 08/11 – 14:37 UTC :
 - Joke had to leave to El Pinar (wisely following Raymond, because she was not safe at her viewing point)
 - Raymond is finally back to observe the eruption. He had to do a lot of things in Valverde. At earthquake-report.com we had no more news from him since more than 8 hours. We feared he would have been picked up by the Guardia Civil
Here is his first report written at arrival at his safe viewing point (we will translate it soon) :


Le second jacuzzy est en pleine ébullition avec des éjections de vapeurs, de cendres et de pyroclastes et s'il faisait nuit, on verrait, certainement, que du magma éclaté est aussi éjecté...
 je peux t'assurer que cette fois ci c'est bien parti... l'éruption hydromagmatique est bien enclenchée... par contre il y a de la folie dans l'air... ça ne sent plus le soufre mais c'est le CO2 qui se dégage et des journalistes sont sur les hauteurs de Puerto Naos où le risque est important car le H25 peut être mortel... Est-ce que Joke se trouve dans ces parages... Si oui... averti là de se reculer et de trouver un autre site, avec une bonne vue, plus en arrière
 La PEVOLCA et la Guardia Civil sont fous... ça risque de péter d'un moment à l'autre avec une colonne qui monte à plus d'un km de hauteur... et les chutes de cendres chaudes qui s'en suivent... Et ils laissent des gens sur site....
 Le jacuzzi est en pleine ébullition et les colonnes de vapeur et de cendres montent jusqu'à 20 mètres de haut

Google translation (we will make it better the following minutes)
 The second jacuzzy is thriving with ejections of vapor, ash and pyroclasts and it was night, there would, of course, that the magma erupted is ejected ...
 I can assure you that this time it's gone ... hydromagmatic the eruption is well under way ... by cons there is madness in the air ... it no longer feels the sulfur but the CO2 is released and journalists in the hills above Puerto Naos where the risk is important because the H25 can be fatal ... Is Joke is in these parts ... If so ... warned to step back and find another site with a good view, further back
 The PEVOLCA and the Guardia Civil are crazy ... it might blow up from one moment to another with a column that rises to more than one kilometer in height ... and falling hot ash that follow ... And they let people on site ....
 The jacuzzi is in full swing and the columns of steam and ash rising up to 20 meters high

[jand]

Webcam closed by the President of El Hierro ?
 We have to be cautious in reporting but we want to publish this tweet captured by someone in the Jonfr.com discussion platform. It may explain why not only the image is not reached, but all the webcam configuration has been lost !



From El Hierro twitter
 Nos informan que Presidencia no quiere instalar webcam porque perjudicaría el turismo, da imagen de inseguridad y peligro
 Translated
 We report that the president does not want a webcam because it would hurt tourism as it would give the feeling of insecurity and danger

[jand]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVJEtPmoQJc&feature=player_embedded

[jand]

What makes hydromagmatic eruptions violent? Some insights from the Keanak#257;ko'i Ash, K#305;#772;lauea Volcano, Hawai'i#9734;



Abstract

Volcanic eruptions at the summit of K#305;#772;lauea volcano, Hawai'i, are of two dramatically contrasting types: (1) benign lava flows and lava fountains; and (2) violent, mostly prehistoric eruptions that dispersed tephra over hundreds of square kilometers. The violence of the latter eruptions has been attributed to mixing of water and magma within a wet summit caldera; however, magma injection into water at other volcanoes does not consistently produce widespread tephras. To identify other factors that may have contributed to the violence of these eruptions, we sampled tephra from the Keanak#257;ko'i Ash, the most recent large hydromagmatic deposit, and measured vesicularity, bubble-number density and dissolved volatile content of juvenile matrix glass to constrain magma ascent rate and degree of degassing at the time of quenching. Bubble-number densities (9×104–1×107 cm#8722;3) of tephra fragments exceed those of most historically erupted K#305;#772;lauean tephras (3×103–1.8×105 cm#8722;3), and suggest exceptionally high magma effusion rates. Dissolved sulfur (average=330 ppm) and water (0.15–0.45 wt.%) concentrations exceed equilibrium-saturation values at 1 atm pressure (100–150 ppm and #8764;0.09%, respectively), suggesting that clasts quenched before equilibrating to atmospheric pressure. We interpret these results to suggest rapid magma injection into a wet crater, perhaps similar to continuous-uprush jets at Surtsey. Estimates of Reynolds number suggest that the erupting magma was turbulent and would have mixed with surrounding water in vortices ranging downward in size to centimeters. Such fine-scale mixing would have ensured rapid heat exchange and extensive magma fragmentation, maximizing the violence of these eruptions

Keywords: K#305;#772;lauea; Phreatomagmatism; explosive eruptions; vesicular texture; turbulence

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jand has just done 7 posts without interruptions..and now you have interrupted her chain of thought woe...she'll have to do another 10 now to get back intp the (lava) flow...

[fifi]

New volcanic explosion http://www.laprovincia.es/especiales/2011/11/08/volcan-hierro-genera-mayor-explosion-inicio/414190.html?utm_source=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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"On this island there could be a vertical eruption column a few miles high"
It is one of the possibilities includes Sunday Gimeno Professor, Faculty of Geology, UB, after analyzing the magma of La Restinga
 | 08/11/2011 - 17:21 pm

              El Hierro fifteen earthquakes recorded in the last hours
    The sea water on the volcano of El Hierro is 11 degrees warmer
    El Hierro exceeded its maximum carbon dioxide emissions
http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20111108/54237672686/en-el-hierro-podria-surgir-una-columna-eruptiva-vertical-de-unos-cuantos-kilometros-de-altura.html (Translated)

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Massive hotel cancellations on La Palma, EL Hierro, Tenerife, and La Gomera for the months of November December and January.

http://www.europapress.es/turismo/destino-espana/canarias/noticia-crisis-volcanica-hierro-vacia-hoteles-isla-20111108181115.html

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57 earthquakes so far today, the largest so far 3.5 on the Richter scale. Locations can be viewed here http://www.avcan.org/?m=Animacion

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Unfortunately not many photos on the net at the moment due to the fact that people are not allowed near the eruption zone.

[jand]

Update 08/11 – 18:23 UTC :
 Raymond writes :
 The explosions are following  one another every 10 to 15 minutes ... Large clouds of gas, steam and pyroclastic products. Magma is being ekected and with with the night falling, we start to see the redness ... The ciprissoid jet can be seen with almost each explosion ...
 Original text : Les explosions se succèdent toutes les 10 à 15 minutes... De gros nuages de gaz, de vapeur d'eau et de produits pyroclastiques. Il y a même du magma éclaté et on commence, avec le jour qui tombe, à en voir les rougeurs... Le jet ciprissoid commence lui aussi à se former à chaque explosion...

Update 08/11 – 17:28 UTC :
 Raymond writes :
 A new column of ash and magma and pyroclasts and gas  rises 30 to 35 meters above the jacuzzi. The explosion generated a strong smell of sulfur and an early form of a cypressoid jet a few meters high appeared column ...
 Original text : Une nouvelle colonne de cendres, de magma, de pyroclastes et de gaz vient de s'élever, d'au moins 30 à 35 mètres, au-dessus du jacuzzy. L'explosion a dégagé une forte odeur de soufre et une première forme de quelques mètres de haut de cypressoid jet est apparu dans le panache gaz-eau-cendres...

Update 08/11 – 16:41 UTC :
 La Provincia writes : The volcano had its biggest explosion so far – this corresponds with the comments of Joke and Raymond. The newspaper reports that the column of gas-ash-water climbed 25 meters out of the sea.
 - Television Canarias has just aired video footage from this powerful eruption

Update 08/11 – 16:34 UTC :
 Un gros nuage de vapeur vient de s'élever sur la Mer de las Calmas...
 A big steam cloud is covering the Las Calmas sea ...
 Joke Volta just asked us : Please ask Raymond what is happening ?

Update 08/11 – 16:32 UTC :
 How does an erupting underwater volcano looks like ? This beautiful picture taken out of an helicopter from the Guardia Civil and Involcan yesterday shows is giving the answer.

[jand]

http://www.01.ign.es/ign/head/volcaSenalesAnterioresDia.do?nombreFichero=CFUE_2011-11-08&ver=s&estacion=CFUE&Anio=2011&Mes=11&Dia=08&tipo=2

Someone has commented Fuerteventuras frequency levels are turning yellow dont know if this has any meaning?

[jand]

Opinion of Patrick Allard on the present situation
 We have asked the opinion of Patrick Allard on the observations Raymond just made a little while ago and the video and other information available online.
 Patrick Allard is Directeur de recherche CNRS, Paris, France. He has been working on munerous erupting volcanoes worldwide over the past 40 years and has carefully followed the evolution of El Hierro events at a distance. Mr. Allard is not a member of one of the local scientist teams. He can only give his ideas on what is happening based on the open source information available on the internet.


Raymond's observations and the new video you put on the site are  actually preoccupating. Yes, the situation might rapidly threaten La Restinga and then possibly people watching on hills at 150 m height, if  the gas-water-ash jets start to become powerful (i.e. high) enough and if wind is blowing in the wrong direction (see above for the wind direction in the 16:04 update)).
 In any case, it sounds me highly reasonable that evacuation of La Restinga be maintained and that outside observers be advised of potential risks from volcanic gases and ash fallout. Strange to me the lack of sulfur odor reported by Raymond! One must also be careful because H2S can be no more detected by nose (saturation of the detector) above a threshold of several hundreds of ppmv...Otherwise, carbon dioxide should not be a risk for people staying at 150 m elevation, given its atmospheric dilution during volcanic cloud expansion and transport.
 In contrast, due to its higher density than air (molar weight 44, compared to 29) volcanic CO2 might locally form concentrated gas sheets over the sea and become a danger if these move towards the coast.

When ashed about the probably similar style Capelinhos, Azores eruption, Patrick Allard writes the following :
 This type of eruption usually starts with a phase of gradual increase in intensity,  determined by the depth of the vent, the magma-gas flow rate, and the building rate of the cone until its emergence at the open air.
 Afterwards, the height of eruptive columns becomes controlled by the extent of magma-sea water interactions (phreato-magmatic fragmentation, generating steam column from vaporized seawater, ash columns and ballistic blocks (cypressoid jets). The danger is conditioned by the height of those columns, their gas and ash density, and obviously the wind direction.
 Once the vent becomes isolated from seawater, then pure magmatic eruption began. This can be more or less explosive, depending on the magma composition (viscosity) and volatile content (overpressure).

[fifi]

URGENThttp://www.canarias7.es/
18:28 Residents of El Pinar just felt a strong jolt. "It has moved around," says Rosa Rodriguez from El Hierro. The signals have intensified: the smell of gas in the area of Puerto Naos (300 meters above La Restinga), possibly CO2, the earthquake was felt at 17:51 has had an intensity of 3.4 according to the National Geographic Institute. The bubble does not stop bubbling.

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GRAFCAN admits that information was lost "vital" to the eruption has been lost http://www.abc.es/20111108/local-canarias/abci-grafcan-201111081514.html



The public company that manages the geodetic network recognizes the "failure" of the system

Day 08/11/2011 - 3:19 p.m.

The Canary Islands government yesterday admitted the loss of data on the volcano in El Hierro, but tried to downplay its importance and even came to deny it in public statements despite the company that manages the data confirming this. The Ministry of Economy, Finance and Security, headed by Javier Gonzalez Ortiz nationalist, insisted that only one of the 17 stations of the Active Geodetic Network had problems and that the character "redundant" system allows the information it processes a station is also processed by another or others. The Director General of Security and Emergency, Juan Santana, was the one who came to public television to deny the islands, told the program

[fifi]

quote:Originally posted by jand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM2VzfYDZes

The video is in Spanish but still interesting to watch.

Brilliant video.[]

[jand]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=amHY8hAHa48

Video of the erruption at sea at 1600.

[jand]

www.jonfr.com/volcano


El Hierro could emerge a vertical eruptive column of a few kilometers of height"

Seismic activity in El Hierro, far from narrowing, appears to go further with the passage of days. This past weekend has been especially busy in this regard. The emergence of magma from the depths off the coast of La Restinga has become almost a recurring event.

"Since Saturday afternoon, magma seeks to leave the area of La Restinga." "Apparently, this magma has two compositions, such as which I analysed, and a large explosive", he explains to LaVanguardia.com Sunday Gimeno, Professor in the Department of geochemistry, Petrology and geological prospecting, Faculty of geology, University of Barcelona.

"Now also are getting some samples of a more red color that would be to look at." In principle, without are reddish, it is no longer a rhyolite (the most explosive material). "It may be a mixture of the two compositions, but unless they do not analyze it will not know," he added.

On the basis of the analysis carried out on the first magma appeared off the coast of La Restiga, Gimeno does not rule out that the volcanic eruption of El Hierro end leading to a phenomenon of major entity: "If I am correct, there could be a vertical eruptive column of about few kilometres in height that would expel numerous pyroclastic".

Gimeno has been embroiled in controversy since the say, few days ago (contradicting the official version provided until then) that the magma which emerged off the coast of El Hierro contained a large explosive potential. "I detected in the first eruption resulting magma had whitish parties." They (the Scientific Committee that manages the eruption) claimed that everything was basalt, but that is not possible. "In Petrology is something very elementary", he defends Gimeno.

The Professor of the University of Barcelona has left samples of his surprise in the report referred in his day to Ayuntamiento del Pinar, of El Hierro, after analysing the volcanic samples. "Many of the Spanish public universities and the CSIC centres have teams and perfectly qualified technical personnel able to perform the same work we have carried out at the UB in comparable times and honestly, it was not clear how this characterization not was carried out from the outset by party or commissioned by the Commission of scientific monitoring of the eruption"says the report.

From this professor's point of view, what is preventing the Commission manages the crisis of El Hierro is to avoid the scaremongering. "But people, when are you deceived just giving account," complaint Gimeno.

"In the end, who will tell the truth will be the same volcano". And it will anyway as much as some people say that nothing happens. If it does not, I'll be the first in also to do so. "But if he goes, there may be problems."

Far from looking for confrontation, he wants this Professor at the University of Barcelona is put on the table all possibilities that could be derived from the current situation being experienced by the iron. Above all, taking into account the danger to the population is non-existent from the moment they have evacuated residents of the Restinga (the place closest to the underwater eruption that lived for about a month the island).

"What I say is not to generate scaremongering." It has been evacuated. "The things you are doing well", sentence Gimeno.

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Xana says:

 November 8, 2011 at 19:23


Que es la fuente de esta noticia?
 What's the source of this news?

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luisport says:

 November 8, 2011 at 19:36


http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20111108/54237672686/en-el-hierro-podria-surgir-una-columna-eruptiva-vertical-de-unos-cuantos-kilometros-de-altura.html sorry...

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Xana says:

 November 8, 2011 at 19:38


Obrigado!

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luisport says:

 November 8, 2011 at 19:43


Desculpa, esqueço de pôr os links muitas vezes...








Carl le Strange says:

 November 8, 2011 at 19:50


Professor Gimeno Torrente strikes back!
 Hillarous, he is inebriated off now.
 For those who have missed it.
 Prof. Torrente is the most respected Geologist in Spain.He is THEE professor.

As we all know they have withheld information and spread desinformation from the eruption.
 Enter Professors Sagiya fom Nagoya and Prof Torrente. They happily started to say what is happening, and what is coming up. IGN, Pevolca and Cabildioto Presidente Perfidio Armas saying that these 2 highly respected and cunning professor are lying b*st*rds.
 Problem here, the two Profs are the real deal, so the people at the beforementioned "competent authorities" will be without scientific careers (big professors can kill a career just like that).
 But, they also like to take a fight, and here came the reply. Might be the most evil attack on the beforementioned "competent authorities".

Hilarious!
 Prof Torrente, you are my hero!

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[jand]

Copied From Der Speigel

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,796612,00.html

It's an underwater volcano off the coast of El Hierro, the southern-most Canary Island, which has caught the imagination of locals. For three weeks it has been spewing magma into the sea in the first volcanic eruptions on the Canary Islands for 40 years. The lava is already towering 100 meters above the seabed -- another 150 meters and it will protrude above the Atlantic Ocean, creating a new island. For Canarians, it's a welcome new attraction.

Whether the eruption near the archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa will ever actually result in new land remains uncertain. But it's clear that the magma reservoir under El Hierro is simmering unchecked, constantly pouring out magma and causing the ground to shake several times a day. Since July, there have been more than 10,000 earthquakes -- mostly imperceptible -- on El Hierro. Volcanologists expect more eruptions, but they don't know where the lava will be released. Even small eruptions on land are possible. The volcanic activity will "probably last for some time," said the Mayor of El Hierro, Alpidio Armas.

 Dead Fish

The effects of the underwater volcanic events are clearly visible: powerful eddies result from explosions in the deep. A sea of ash bigger than El Hierro itself is floating off the island, with gas bubbling up and dead fish scattered in the water.

Politicians and scientists are offering daily advice on possible risks to the local population, but their understanding of events under the seabed is far from complete. "Recent volcanism in the Canary Islands is not well known," says a report in the "Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences" journal by researchers at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona, led by Rosa Sobradelo. Nonetheless, advice on the potential dangers is being dispensed by the authorities on El Hierro as well as in the rest of the Canary Islands.

Scientists have stepped up their monitoring; there is even a submarine taking pictures of the ocean floor, showing the new undersea mountain, already 700 meters (2,300 feet) wide. A 150-meter (490-foot) crater can also be seen. There is also fissure three kilometers (two miles) long that is clearly gushing magma.

Disturbing Measurements Recorded

To the south of El Hierro, the earthquakes suggest persistent outbursts of lava, according to the ITER research institute on Tenerife. They show a pattern that is typical for flowing liquid, a so-called harmonic volcanic tremor. Presumably, there are constant small eruptions on the ocean floor. But the lava usually clogs the fissure quickly after such eruptions, forcing further magma to seek new channels -- exactly what seems to be happening now.

In recent days, however, some unsettling measurements have been recorded: The shaking has moved to the north. Because most of the earthquakes in that area have, up until now, occurred at depths of more than ten kilometers, an eruption is not expected in the area, the local authorities have said. The magma seems to be contained in the depths thus far.

If the lava was being spewed in shallower water, there would be a danger of large steam explosions, says to Ramon Ortiz, the science advisor to the local government. But there are no fears of large eruptions on land according to Spain's National Geographic Institute (IGN). The only risk is in the immediate vicinity of the eruption site, where there may be lava flows and rocks flung into the air. Still, many of the nearly 600 residents of the fishing village of La Restinga on the southern tip of the island have now returned home after being evacuated two weeks ago.

 A Major Eruption?

The risk of large, explosive eruptions in the Canary Islands, however, "should not be neglected," Sobradelo and her colleagues insist in their study. The frequency of their occurrence cannot currently be estimated. But even the most momentous outbursts of the past few centuries remained localised. In 1706, lava from the Pico del Teide volcano hit Tenerife, burying the port town of Garachio in the northwest of the island where massive black boulders now form the remnants of the lava flow. On Lanzarote, lava poured through villages in the north of the island from 1730 to 1740 and again in 1824. La Palma has experienced more than a hundred eruptions in the past 20,000 years; most recently in 1971 when a flow of lava ran into the sea.




El Hierro is the youngest of the Canary Islands, appearing above the surface of the sea just over a million years ago. As such, it is likely its magma reservoir may still be very large; geologists suspect it is around ten kilometers below the seabed -- most of the tremors have occurred at this depth. The last confirmed eruption was in 550 BC, although there are also disputable reports of an event in 1793.

In the eastern Canaries, on the other hand, supplies of lava have largely run out; they have already been far removed from the magma source. On Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, volcanic activity has already lasted 15 million years, on Fuerteventura 20 million. Although there has not been an eruption on Fuerteventura in the past 20,000 years, the volcano is still considered active -- unlike La Gomera, which seems to have run out of fresh magma. The island is expected to be spared from any future volcanic eruptions. It pays a price for this, however -- without any new lava, La Gomera will be washed away by rain and sea, and eventually, over the course of millions of years, will gradually sink back into the ocean.

Only fresh magma secures the existence of the Canaries; it was volcanic eruptions which allowed the islands to grow above the water in the first place. The sea is already at work trying to reclaim the land. Coastal roads have repeatedly had to be moved inland after being battered by floods. But the recent underwater lava eruptions could be creating new land near El Hierro, and residents are waiting eagerly to see if it will grow beyond the surface.

[jand]

Although there has not been an eruption on Fuerteventura in the past 20,000 years, the volcano is still considered active --This I did not know!!!

[TripleH]

NOt being funny but would it be easier if jand and Fifi just put up the links for people to read things direct. Would save an awful lot of usage on this site

[fifi]

Most of the articles need to be translated from Spanish to English TripleH. I have put all the links to the Spanish papers on my posts.

A nice collection of photos came online. They show one of todays eruptions in sequence.[]












Still waiting for the big ones.[]

These are the two photos of todays events which are being offered to the press this evening by the Cabildo of El Hierro. They portray a different picture.




The Ramon Margalef ship surveying the area.

[jand]

Fifi you were correct about the webcam this has just been posted on www.earthquake-report.com

Update 08/11 – 21:20 UTC - The La Restinga Webcam story (continued) :
 Joke Volta has called this evening Mr. Atilano, the webcam owner and got a totally different story than the person who "tweeted" that the President of El Hierro prohibited the use of the webcam.
 Mr. Atilano said (unfortunately too late) that the president story was total nonsense. A typical rumor who starts to live his own live and was probably a setup by political opponents of Alpidio Armas.
 He said the real reason is simply TOO MUCH VISITORS. In only 1 hour the webcam had more than 350000 visitors! Mr. Atilano said that they are working on a solution. A stronger server and more traffic capacity may solve the problem tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

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It pays a price for this, however -- without any new lava, La Gomera will be washed away by rain and sea, and eventually, over the course of millions of years, will gradually sink back into the ocean.

OMG OMG OMG!!! Run for your lives!

I thought the ice caps melting kind of guaranteed that for the whole of the planet. Don't these people ever read the news or go to the movies. I reckon we ought to put Bruce Willis onto this. He'll save the day.

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Personally I think jand should see if she can tweet Superman..perhaps he can do one of his 'fly round the world anti-clockwise really really fast' lots and lots of times and he can turn back the the time on this impending catastrophe ...or something.... [:I][:I]

[woe10]

quote:Originally posted by hev

jand has just done 7 posts without interruptions..and now you have interrupted her chain of thought woe...she'll have to do another 10 now to get back intp the (lava) flow...

jand are just trying to catch up to Roar of the Rovers, 34616 posts.

Fifi´s trying to catch up with appy ammer, 11302 posts.

[fifi]

Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.[]  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.  ~Eric Ho

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Nice one Ralph:)

[fifi]

I LOVE this one.[][][]

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.  ~Author Unknown


OOOH......now this one is good.[][][]

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners?  Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal through which solid waste is eliminated from the body?  ~John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960

[jand]

Avcan
Map of the seismicity of the last 3 days, the most notable is that today continues the concentration of earthquakes in the Valley of the Gulf marine zone, if anything has generally migrated westwards, towards the Tanganasoga and land, indicating the entry again magma in the system.


The rest of the earthquakes, as well as previous days, becomes aligned according to the NNW-SSE direction, aligned from the sea of the Gulf up to the zone of erupcion in the mar de las Calmas to la Restinga, where there has been some earthquakes.


Remarkable seismically active area is larger and can be seen as a fissure or fails it cuts off the island, is inclined to (buzando to Jan about seventy-second according to the Quake 4's shot in the Restinga) (imagine a sheet of paper, support on song, and instead of vertical, give her a little bent, as about 10 cm to a side)doing an inclined plane. This explicaria that as the activity becomes more shallow, tends to move westward (Enrique).
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