With the El Hierrro activity still very much ongoing I thought that a general volcano thread could be stickied or kept alive to post updates as a few other events have also caught my attention today. Would it be possible to sticky this thread? On a different location away from the Canaries, and possibly not yet of significance there has been an earthquake swarm in the Katla area of Iceland this evening. Perhaps something to watch. Further afield there has also been another eruption in Chile at the Hudson volcano in the past 24hrs. It is not a volcano I have come across before but I think it may be one of the more active ones in the region. I understand if there is not enough interest to warrant a dedicated sticky thread but I thought it may be preferable to me starting random threads every time a volcano burps!

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http://earthquake-report...t-after-minor-eruption/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/eruptions

http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/

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Interesting footage of the Chilean volcano.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15493442

Originally Posted by: doctormog

El Hierro is looking very active today. I wonder if something is in the offing soon?

Hopefully not - it'd spell disaster for the US East Coast.

Originally Posted by: doctormog

Originally Posted by: LeedsLad123

Originally Posted by: doctormog

El Hierro is looking very active today. I wonder if something is in the offing soon?

Hopefully not - it'd spell disaster for the US East Coast.

Highly unlikely, even with a massive eruption. La Palma is the area which could possibly cause a large landslide and tsunami, not El Hierro, although El Hierro did many thousands of years ago. For the last couple of weeks there has been an ongoing small subterranean/below sea eruption to the SW of the island, however this new increasing activity is in the El Golfo region to the N/NW of the island. Even a moderate eruption there is unlikely to have massive consequences, except to the locals. It is pretty interesting though as it has been a long time since there had been any volcanic activity near that island.

That's good to hear. Certainly is interesting, I'll be keeping a close eye on El Hierro.

El Hierro Volcano (Canary Islands) : Red alert – an impressive new stain forms in front of the coast

Thing's appear to be hotting up, see below link.

http://earthquake-report.com/2011/09/25/el-hierro-canary-islands-spain-volcanic-risk-alert-increased-to-yellow/

(Been updated since)......New submarine vent to open in the El Golfo bay ? + today’s Jacuzzi images

Update 05/11 – 16:51 UTC :
Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias has published 2 new images taken with the helicopter who was seen by Joke this morning. They are still showing a strong emitting vent in the Las Calmas sea. If the eruption in this vent is magmatic, than the depth must have been seriously decreased since the eruption began. It is hard however to know this,  as the authorities are NOT disclosing the geographic positions of the vents.

Eruptive Jacuzzi location on November 5 2011 - image courtesy Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias

Eruptive Jacuzzi location on November 5 2011 - image courtesy Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias

Update 05/11 – 16:35 UTC :
IGN announced that they expect a new vent to open or already opened in the El Golfo bay, but at a far bigger depth than at the La Restinga coast. The main  eruptive vent is still located to the south in the Las Calmas sea. (ER : let’s hope that the poor images of the NASA satellites will help us out in detecting an eventual coloring of the water).
IGN also said that last night 4.4 magnitude earthquake was perceived much stronger by the population because of the  close distance to the beach. The earlier big quake was weakened by the water masses.

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http://www.canarias7.es/fotos/p3/8794.jpg