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Volcano threat sparks evacuation in Canaries (El Hierro)
Telegraph UK ^ | 09/29/11 | Staff

Posted on 09/29/2011 11:03:14 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper

With the Pico de Malpaso mountain spitting rocks intermittently and a growing rumbling underground, authorities made emergency preparations on Wednesday in case the volcano blows its top on the Atlantic island of El Hierro.

"I have never felt shaking like it," said Herminio Barrera, 25, a mechanic in the town of La Frontera. "I notice it especially at night. We can also hear a rumbling and sounds from deep down."

A municipal official who asked not to be named told AFP that 53 residents and tourists had been evacuated to protect them from the occasional flying volcanic rock and the defence ministry said it was preparing emergency shelter for 2,000 people.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: canary; elhierro
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El Hierro is ramping up....but nothing is normal about the quake sequences, the humming/rumbling, or the lack of apparent magma movement fom depth. Totally strange but there has been an increase in CO2 plus a very noticed inflation.....Interesting stuff and something to truly keep an eye on.
1 posted on 09/29/2011 11:03:18 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
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With the Pico de Malpaso mountain spitting rocks intermittently......

Let me know when it starts spewing pico de gallo. I'll bring the chips. You bring the cerveza.

2 posted on 09/29/2011 11:06:53 AM PDT by edpc (Former Normalcy Bias Victim)
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If it blows it could turn the Canaries into a coal mine.....


3 posted on 09/29/2011 11:08:03 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: winoneforthegipper

It ain’t 2012 yet.............


4 posted on 09/29/2011 11:10:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (We cannot defeat an enemy that the president and hence his administration cannot name.......)
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To: edpc

LOL....silver lining?


5 posted on 09/29/2011 11:10:36 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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Which volcano in the Canaries is the one that if it causes a landslide will wipe out the entire US east coast? Just wondering if Obama won't be the biggest disaster to hit the country this year.
6 posted on 09/29/2011 11:10:44 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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This one has done just that I believe like 30 to 50 thousand years ago....not sure though if this was the one that was being hyped?


7 posted on 09/29/2011 11:11:55 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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The seismic data showing that the quakes are actually migrating downwards which is very odd. Plus they show no signs of any sort of chimney developing.

Yet off shore divers are recording constant sound underwater like a muffled rumble but as of yet now temperature rise in the water.

This episode is just strange...!


8 posted on 09/29/2011 11:14:39 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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Hmmm...wonder if it could nudge Cumbre Vieja into activity.


9 posted on 09/29/2011 11:15:35 AM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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Canary IslandsGeologists S. Day and S. Ward consider that a megatsunami could be generated during a future eruption involving the Cumbre Vieja on the volcanic ocean island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, Spain.[14][15]

In 1949, the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted at its Duraznero, Hoyo Negro and San Juan vents. During this eruption, an earthquake with an epicentre near the village of Jedy occurred. The following day Rubio Bonelli, a local geologist, visited the summit area and discovered that a fissure about 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mi) long had opened on the eastern side of the summit. As a result, the western half of the Cumbre Vieja (which is the volcanically active arm of a triple-armed rift) had slipped about 2 meters (6.6 ft) downwards and 1 meter (3.3 ft) westwards towards the Atlantic Ocean[citation needed].

The Cumbre Vieja volcano is currently in a dormant stage, but will almost certainly erupt again in the future. Day and Ward hypothesize[14][15] that if such an eruption causes the western flank to fail, a megatsunami will be generated.

La Palma is currently the most volcanically active island in the Canary Islands Archipelago. It is likely that several eruptions would be required before failure would occur on Cumbre Vieja.[14][15] However, the western half of the volcano has an approximate volume of 500 cubic kilometres (120 cu mi) and an estimated mass of 1,500,000,000,000 metric tons (1.7×1012 short tons) If it were to catastrophically slide into the ocean, it could generate a wave with an initial height of about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) at the island, and a likely height of around 50 metres (164 ft) at the Caribbean and the Eastern North American seaboard when it runs ashore eight or more hours later. Tens of millions of lives would be lost as New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Miami, Havana, and many other cities near the Atlantic coast are leveled. The likelihood of this happening is a matter of vigorous debate.[16]

The last Cumbre Vieja eruption occurred in 1971 at the southern end of the sub-aerial section without any movement. The section affected by the 1949 eruption is currently stationary and does not appear to have moved since the initial rupture.[17]

Geologists and volcanologists also disagree about whether an eruption on the Cumbre Vieja would cause a single large gravitational landslide or a series of smaller landslides.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_tsunami#Canary_Islands


10 posted on 09/29/2011 11:16:00 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: G Larry

LOL...!


11 posted on 09/29/2011 11:16:33 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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I looked it up and the one they were worried about is Cumbre Vieja on the island of La Palma. So this is a different one.

On another note El Hierro's western end was for a long time considered the end of the known world by the Europeans. So we can honestly shat that it's the end of the world.
12 posted on 09/29/2011 11:19:31 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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Yeah Le Palma that’s the one....But El Hierro has the history....lol

“Islands of volcanic origin, such as the Canaries, have an especially large potential for triggering a tsunami. That the Canaries constitute a danger was shown 300 000 years ago when a part of the island El Hierro slid into the sea, triggering a mega-tsunami which carried rocks as high as a house for many hundreds of metres into the interior of the east coast of what is today the USA. The danger of a similar island collapse is seen by scientists particularly at the island of La Palma in the Canaries.”

http://www.tsunami-alarm-system.com/en/phenomenon-tsunami/occurrences-atlantic-ocean.html


13 posted on 09/29/2011 11:22:54 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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My town’s elevation is 85 to 125 feet, but it is 40 miles inland....


14 posted on 09/29/2011 11:28:35 AM PDT by heartwood
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Well it is strange the way this one is playing out for sure...end of the world worthy?....I hope not!....lol

Here’s the webicorder for El Hierro...!

http://www.01.ign.es/ign/head/volcaSenalesAnterioresDia.do?nombreFichero=CHIE_2011-09-29&estacion=CHIE&Anio=2011&Mes=09&Dia=29


15 posted on 09/29/2011 11:29:45 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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Does the Goracle know about the increase in CO2?


16 posted on 09/29/2011 11:33:02 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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There goes Eastern Europes Carbon Credit account!


17 posted on 09/29/2011 11:34:42 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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http://tu.tv/videos/ElMegatsunamideElHierro

some excellent 3-d mapping of the Island featuring the mega-slide that caused the previous Tsunami.


18 posted on 09/29/2011 11:42:29 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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"If it were to catastrophically slide into the ocean, it could generate a wave with an initial height of about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) at the island, and a likely height of around 50 metres (164 ft) at the Caribbean and the Eastern North American seaboard when it runs ashore eight or more hours later."

Too funny... who writes this stuff?

19 posted on 09/29/2011 11:43:20 AM PDT by Hatteras
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Funny? Your side must have been splitting during the recent Japanese tsunami


20 posted on 09/29/2011 11:51:32 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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