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To: winoneforthegipper

Looks like they've had a recent swarm under the island as well:

"December 23, 2013 – CANARY ISLANDS - The new earthquake swarm under the island’s central-SE sector continues. So far, about 120 quakes of magnitudes above 1.8 including a handful of possibly felt ones (up to magnitudes 3.2) have occurred since yesterday morning. Preliminary GPS data suggest a new phase of uplift has started as well, which supports the idea that a new magma intrusion is occurring at the base of the upper crust beneath the volcanic island. A new earthquake swarm started under the island on December 22nd. The earthquakes are located at about 15 km depth under the southeastern central part of the island. IGN recorded more than 40 quakes with magnitudes up to 3.2 so far. Whether the earthquakes are related to new magmatic intrusions at depth is a unknown but a possible scenario."

Seismic unrest: new earthquake swarms reported at El Hierro Island

9 posted on 12/27/2013 10:33:32 AM PST by Errant

Earthquakes often come in clusters/groups (however you want to word it). When there’s one there will be more and not necessarily in the same area. Kinda weird. Like the earth’s crust re-shifting about or something.

12 posted on 12/27/2013 10:37:21 AM PST by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)

Yeah Machogirl and I had a conversation on the swarm...I was not expecting a quake this large in truth.

17 posted on 12/27/2013 10:45:14 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)

Which side faces the US, the right or left? The left, I think. So the wall above Frontera is the one that would “slide” down into the ocean?

55 posted on 12/27/2013 1:28:28 PM PST by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)

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