El Hierro Volcano (Canary Islands) : Red alert – 2 new erupt

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Update 12/10 – 20:30 UTC : The new eruption spots have been detected by a fisherman and people waiting in a cue to get their belongings from La Restinga. They had nothing else to do than discussing and looking out over the see. High tech like in the middle ages
Closest to the eruption locations is the old port of Puerto Naos. The port is no longer in use and no people are living there. Those people following the El Hierro reports from the veru beginning must surely remember that most of the initial tremors where located in this area.
Update 12/10 – 20:04 UTC : 2 new eruption locations have been detected this afternoon. The eruption sites discovered today are much nearer to the coast than the initial location at 5 km out of the La Restinga coast.
Today’s most remote location is at a depth of 750 meter and 2 nautical miles out of the coast. The second at a depth of 500 meter and 1.5 nautical miles from the coast. (1 nautical mile = 1.85 km)
Authorities told the press that fissures has been opened which resulted in green water spots with a strong sulfurous odor. Just like Monday a lot of dead fish have been detected at the surface waters too.
Scientist are hoping that the present submarine eruptions will decrease the pressure on the main island and are hopeful that the tremors will weaken.
The new fissures have been opened when we reported the strong change in seismicity during the afternoon.
Update 12/10 – 20:04 UTC : Fisherman of La Restinga have not yet received permission to move their boats to La Estaca.
Update 12/10 – 16:51 UTC : The authorities have a called an “urgent” press conference to be held at 19:00 hours at El Hierro. Sources have revealed that the important Los Roquillos tunnel will reopen for commercial transport and emergency vehicles only after that he was inspected by the Canary Islands government.
Update 12/10 – 16:33 UTC : We have been reorganizing our articles and have split them into 3 parts. The current latest updates became too long and was putting too much load on our servers. We expect also that this volcano eruption with his many side effects might go on for a while and had to create some space for our new updates.
IMPORTANT UPDATE 12/10 15:30 : Fundamental change in seismic activity registered since less than an hour. Harmonic tremors have changed as you will see on the map below. In specialized blogs like Jon Frimann, an Icelandic volcano and earthquake follower, the discussion on how to read the current change is overheating. Opninions are varying. We hope to receive the opinion of PEVOLCA soon.

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13/10/2011 @ 11:41 – Residents of El Hierro have been observing the formation of ‘green patches’ on the sea surface, some 1 and a half miles from land, which appear to be growing in size at a rapid pace since this morning.

13/10/2011 @ 10:32 – Tremors continue on the island of El Hierro, see the latest chart from the IGN.
13/10/2011 @ 09:45 – Of the 50 tourists evacuated from the are of La Restinga on Tuesday, 15 still remain on the island. The majority of the tourists have decided to return to their contry of origin, but some have decided to remain on the island. It has now been 15 days since some of the residents were evacuated from their homes.

13/10/2011 @ 09:01 – A new earthquake has been detected, this time to the north-east of the island. Until now, all the earthquakes have been located to the south coast. It took place at 05:10:36 (local time) and registered 1.7 on the Richter scale.
13/10/2011 @ 08:55 – The ship normally used by Telefonica to lay underwater fibre optic cables is making its way from Tenerife to El Hierro to make use of itsunderwater robot with cameras to get images of the eruption and seabed.

13/10/2011 @ 03:12 – The specialists and researchers working from the La Restinga area of El Hierro have confirmed that there is clear evidence of two underwater eruptions which have pushed magma up to the surface of the water.

this is worth keeping a eye on just because of the implications if the predicted land slide happens