As Christmas moves towards Boxing Day it looks more and more as the volcano of Tanganasoga on the island of El Hierro in the Spanish Canary Islands is closing in on a new eruption. Since the last eruption the seismic activity has continued in a subdued fashion, but not in a way that really was…
http://www.ign.es/ign/resources/volcanologia/jpg/Eventos_HIERRO_15D.jpg El Hierro and BoB are a theme that runs right through Volcanocafe and there is still unrest there more than 2 years after the onset of the seismic crisis. It’s been a bit busy this week and the comments from the crowd (thanks loyal commentators) provide a useful lesson in reading/ navigating the seismometers……
In 1997 I spent a couple of weeks in an old rust bucket of a merchant ship in the company of navy people trying their best to look like Philippine merchant mariners. Just seeing them hurting over not being allowed to make the ship look ship shape and Bristol ready was a hoot, they were…
El Popo / Popocatepetl showed some action and distrubuted a cloud of ash. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04/13/popocatepetl-volcano-spews-ash-over-central-mexico-state/ Sunset at Puebla with erupting Popocatépetl: http://www.webcamsdemexico.com/webcam-popocatepetl.html Commenters speculated what the “second” plume could be. A forest fire? A industrial plume from a factory? Gas emissions? I still dont know for sure. Geolurking provided a helpful link: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC/messages.html Parent page is…
The rifting which was discussed in the last posts is still happening in Iceland but the quakes seem to have tranquilized a little bit. http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/tjornes-small/ Still lots more earthquakes as on a regular day in Iceland in the last few months… El Hierro seems to go dormant at the moment too. There were earthquakes in the…
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