Volcano Update 2 - Additional vents opening -Volcano on La Palma island in the Canary Islands has erupted

RememberGoliad

Veteran Member
If it was a mechanical zoom camera, and I suppose it is, it doesn't take much to booger 'em up. One speck of grit in just the wrong place and it starts faulting and won't even start up. Wonder if he's been using it around areas with grit in the air? ;)
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
If it was a mechanical zoom camera, and I suppose it is, it doesn't take much to booger 'em up. One speck of grit in just the wrong place and it starts faulting and won't even start up. Wonder if he's been using it around areas with grit in the air? ;)

yes he has been doing just that if you watch his videos, he's constantly commenting about the ash in the air and the air quality at the moment of filming.
 

Jimbopithecus

Deceased
I am interested in what your geologist friend has to say about this and I appreciate the info you have posted so far.
I've thought all afternoon about how I wll; reply to this requrst and I will start by sayingt hat Volcanology is very far from my practice of the last 30 or so years. But reaching back through the years and looking at the graphics that have been posted but at this point I think that the lateral move out of the magma chamber is causing the seismic activity (earthquakes) on the south end of the island, but at this pount I don't have enough data to speculate further as this is way out of my realm of expertise. I would hesitate to sat that a catastrophic seismic event is imminent or even hjghly likely, but these are just speculation based on incomplete real-time data. But it does make for good doom porn lol!

But I could easily be wrong!
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
hmm, got distracted and hadn't checked EQs for a while.

This 4.1 quake was much farther North and East than the others, this one was near the coast on the top third of the island (SE of Candelaria and NNW of Santa Cruz de la palma). It looks like it should actually be in/on one of the other two volcano plumes. The ones that feed Cumbre Nuevo or Taburiente. hmmm

Thursday, October 21, 2021 04:03 GMT (17 earthquakes)
Oct 21, 2021 3:14 am (GMT +1) (Oct 21, 2021 02:14 GMT)
2 hours 1 minutes ago
4.1
40 km
La Palma Island, Canary Islands, Spain
I FELT IT - 6 reports
 
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packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Oh HELL no!

That's pretty much what I said when I saw his video a few minutes ago over on YT. I know Doc1 said his geologist friend claims that La Palma cannot go off in the same fashion as Tambora, but my sources are telling me that something has drastically changed with this particular volcano and that they don't know what it's going to do now.
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
That's pretty much what I said when I saw his video a few minutes ago over on YT. I know Doc1 said his geologist friend claims that La Palma cannot go off in the same fashion as Tambora, but my sources are telling me that something has drastically changed with this particular volcano and that they don't know what it's going to do now.

Well, you can look at the Taburiente caldera from thousands of years ago and the newer escarpment SE of the caldera from the collapse/landslide thousands of years ago (not the 1949 spit in a teapot landslide) and see that it is capable of some bad things. Question is...what can/will it do now?
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Well, you can look at the Taburiente caldera from thousands of years ago and the newer escarpment SE of the caldera from the collapse/landslide thousands of years ago (not the 1949 spit in a teapot landslide) and see that it is capable of some bad things. Question is...what can/will it do now?

I think it has a solid chance to become bad, very bad, and that this volcano is just starting to warm up.
 

danielboon

TB Fanatic
Volcano on La Palma with maximum eruption level, is there a risk of a tsunami?
09/25/2021

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Volcano on La Palma with maximum eruption level, is there a risk of a tsunami?

The eruptions intensified to their maximum level at the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma, prompting authorities to order additional evacuations, while several flights were canceled due to increased volcanic ash.
The politician
The Canary Islands emergency services sent an update on the volcano through social networks that described “the intensification of the explosive phenomenon and the intense emission of ash.
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They also ordered the evacuation of two villages, as well as part of a third village that had not been evacuated before.
Volcano eruption suspended flights
Several flights to and from La Palma this Friday afternoon were canceled, according to the Spanish airport operator AENA on its website.
Binter airlines operating in the Canary Islands tweeted that they had canceled flights to La Palma and the nearby island of La Gomera due to volcanic ash.
It was the sixth consecutive day of volcanic eruptions on La Palma, one of the smallest islands in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

Pedro Sánchez attentive
The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, remained on the island this Friday morning; where it has been for most of the week, since the eruptions began last Sunday.
Sánchez told reporters on Friday that the Spanish government approved "immediate financial assistance for housing" for displaced people; and financial aid for the purchase of household items to replace the lost ones; so that the island's irrigation system for crops continues to function; and unemployment assistance for people who have lost their jobs.
Volcano with tsunami alert?
A mega tsunami that crosses the Atlantic, the product of an eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma? The scenery painted by scientists 20 years ago was too dramatic for the palmists to take it for granted.
Until this September 19, when, with the eruption, doubts about the possible dangers also arose again.
According to the models developed by researchers Steven Ward and Simon Day, the seismic activity of the Cumbre Vieja; it could cause rocks of up to 500 cubic kilometers to fall, causing them to slide and generating a mega tsunami.
Subsequent studies showed that hillside collapses occur regularly throughout the Canary Islands.
Volcanologist Thomas Walter, a professor at the German University of Potsdam told DW that "most likely these rock masses will not slide into a single block, as predicted, but into several smaller ones." So "the problem cannot be completely ruled out," adds the geological hazard specialist. :siren: :siren: :siren:
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
well, for now it is listed as a 4.0, have to wait and see if it is moved up or down or whatever
ETA: it was revised down to a 3.6
Oct 22, 2021 9:05 pm (GMT +1) (Oct 22, 2021 20:05 GMT)
4 minutes ago
4.0
11 km
La Palma Island, 13 km southeast of Los

ct 22, 2021 9:05 pm (GMT +1) (Oct 22, 2021 20:05 GMT)
1 hour 18 minutes ago
3.6
11 km
La Palma Island, 14 km southeast of Los Llanos de Aridane, Spain
 
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