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El Hierro 'landmass' just 70mts from surface

Spain's National Geographic Institute (IGN) who are observing the volcanic eruption off the town of La Restinga, on the southern coast of the Island, have reported further changes to the underwater phenomena.

Over recent days the bubbles on the surface above the fissures have changed to produced columns of steam, volcanic gases, lava and ash, thrown an estimated 20 mts into the air.

Yesterday scientists revealed that the water surrounding the eruption had been measured at 11 degrees higher than the average water temperature for coastal waters around the rest of the island.
Meanwhile, Scientists onboard the Ramon Margaleff Oceanographic research vessel have estimated that the solidifying mass of magma rising from the fissure erupting on the ocean floor is just 70mts away from reaching the surface.

As far as the northern coast of the island is concerned, the increase of seismic activity over recent days has heightened fears that a further eruption may occur around the epicentres of the many earthquakes, to the north of Frontera.

For all the Scientists, researchers, Military and Emergency personnel on the island, together with their many resources, there is still little information forthcoming with regards to what is happening on the island - or about to happen.

The Youtube clip demonstrates the force of the activity currently occurring off the coast of La Restinga >>>

Explosión de gases y cenizas en El Hierro

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Op woensdag 9 november 2011 12:02 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
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Op woensdag 9 november 2011 13:05 schreef Jumparound het volgende:

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maar hoe groot... Kom met details fruts, anders is het gewoon het zoveelste monster-van-lochness-achtige foto

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Op woensdag 9 november 2011 13:06 schreef motorbloempje het volgende:

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Ziet eruit alsof een dolfijn een scheet laat.....

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Op woensdag 9 november 2011 12:02 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
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09/11/2011 @ 11:26 – The El Hierro underwater volcano eruption seems to have calmed down today as the ‘bubbling’ and ‘steaming’ effect with explosions and the spewing of magma has dissappeared since its spectacular show yesterday. Despite this news, there have been 18 earthquakes on El Hierro so far today, all overe 1.5 degrees Richter.

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Very Important Update 09/11 – 12:22 UTC :
- Scientists in La Restinga and Guardia Civil who is currently flying over the earlier jacuzzi location have reported that the vent has probably closed completely. The activity has completely stopped at the moment. The Roman Margaleff Oceanographic ship is now close to the eruption vent is is problably taking gas samples and water samples.
We expect to publish images soon.
The closure of erupting vents is a normal phase in this kind of activity. This does not mean that the volcano activity is completely over. If the volcano continues in the same pattern, the seismic activity may getting stronger again as the magnma trying to find his way to the surface has been blocked.

Update 09/11 – 11:30 UTC :
- There is a slowdown of the activity. A lot of pumice, but the activity active seaspots have subsided almost completely. Joke is now looking atthe Las Calmas sea at the Montaña Naos (the cliff 150 meter above the Las Calmas sea).
- The world is blind again ! The El Pinar webcam (see picture below) turned black.
- The owner of the La Restinga webcam is still working on a solution involving the authorities and Telefonica. Why do we have a bad feeling about this …

Data Update 09/11 – 11:20 UTC :
- 18 M+1.5 earthquakes occurred since midnight today
- strongest earthquake had a magnitude of 3.0 and occurred at 04:15 NW of Frontera.
- seismic activity is almost unchanged for many days now, the depths are still within the 17 to 23 km range and almost all epicenters are in the El Golfo bay.

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Op woensdag 9 november 2011 13:41 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Je hebt gelijk, ben benieuwd wanneer jouw eerstvolgende informatieve post komt

Maar goed, antwoord staat in post #172
en eronder...

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Op woensdag 9 november 2011 14:07 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Dat is er alvast één

Dit topic openen is op deze oude kutpc bijna niet meer te doen

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Update 09/11 – 13:04 UTC :
The Roman Margaleff has been throwing a buoy near the eruption vent yesterday. The ship is now circling the area. What the ship is doing know can be called a calculated risk. We have to admit that the ship is doing great work in continuous sampling of the emitted gases and the water (he has been observed many times at the edge of the stain the last couple of days). As Patrick Allard was telling in this article before, the composition of the gases is predominant in calculating the risk for the population.
Update 09/11 – 12:41 UTC :
Picked up from the comments made below (Name and address known @ ER)
Cabildo de El Hierro and Telefonica are installing 2 webcams in La Restinga to enable people to follow LIVE the eruption events.
Cabildo de El Hierro y Telefónica ya están instalando 2 webcam en La Restinga para el seguimiento en directo del fenómeno eruptivo Twitter
If this message is confirmed, this is really good news, as Telefonica is the main telecommunications company in Spain and is maybe the only instance who is able to guarantee huge amounts of traffic.