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  • El Hierro volcano (Canary Islands): continuing earthquakes, volcanic tremor and eruption warning

    06/27/2012 2:05:32 PM PDT · by djf · 23 replies
    Volcano Discovery ^ | jun 26 2012
    While the unusually strong earthquake swarm under El Hierro Island continues, harmonic volcanic tremor has reappeared short time ago at about 16h10 UTC. The tremor, a low-frequency ground vibration, is thought to be caused by moving magma. It had been strong yesterday and correlated well with a southward propagation of earthquake locations, suggesting that magma at about 20 km depth flew from underneath the El Golfo area towards the EL Julan (south) coast, in a similar way as before the Oct 2011 eruption, but became blocked there, and did not reach the southern rift zone near La Restinga. After the...