Canary Islands government raises alert level on El Hierro volcano to yellow

Posted on September 23, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

September 23, 2011 – CANARY ISLANDS – Considering the volcanic hazards involves a series of actions to be undertaken sequentially has established a worldwide warning system for the population based on the selection of three colors (green, yellow and red). In this way the population may adopt certain behaviors based on a symbol that are easy to understand color. We must continue in the case of each of them, the recommendations for the same. The Canary Islands government brings to light yellow-volcanic earthquake situation in El Hierro. –Gobierno translated

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17 Responses to Canary Islands government raises alert level on El Hierro volcano to yellow

The Extinction Protocol says:

September 23, 2011 at 5:04 pm

c/o Luisport

El Hierro is probably set to alert “yellow”
http://www.emergenciaselhierro.org/

2hr 02min ago 27.71 N 18.03 W 19 ML
2.9 CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION 2011-09-23 14:19
2011-09-23 12:50:52.1
7hr 43min ago 27.68 N 18.05 W 11 ML
2.5 CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION 2011-09-23 09:04
2011-09-23 07:25:01.0
10hr 11min ago 27.68 N 18.06 W 12 ML
2.7 CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION

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- Rick says:
  
  September 23, 2011 at 7:06 pm
  
  Any idea why these Canary Island quakes not listed on the USGS page below?
  
  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/
  
  Alvin, what timezone are the posts set to on this webpage? Thanks.
  
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  - The Extinction Protocol says:
    
    September 23, 2011 at 10:30 pm
    
    I honestly couldn’t tell you on the time-z. As a general rule, the USGS does not list earthquakes under 3.0 or smaller outside of the U.S., its states or protecterates (Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands included). Each country is therefore responsible for gathering and monitoring its own seismic data. If you wish to monitor the seismic activity taking place on El Hierro, you can do it from here:
    http://www.avcan.org/
  - Desilk says:
    
    September 24, 2011 at 12:24 pm
    
    Thank you for the link Alvin!!
  - The Extinction Protocol says:
    
    September 24, 2011 at 1:32 pm
    
    You’re welcome friend.
  - Svetlana says:
    
    October 4, 2011 at 12:46 pm
    
    That is really GOOD question!? Hiding something ?!? Or?
    
    check this link for seismic activity..scary..S*
    http://www.geo.ign.es/ign/layoutIn/sismoListadoTerremotos.do?zona=1&cantidad_dias=10
    
    http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/
luisport says:

September 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm

another one just now: Magnitude ML 2.5
Region CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN REGION
Date time 2011-09-23 16:45:31.0 UTC
Location 27.77 N ; 18.09 W
Depth 16 km
Distances 191 km SW San cristóbal de la laguna (pop 139,928 ; local time 17:45:31.0 2011-09-23)
99 km S Los llanos de aridane (pop 19,635 ; local time 17:45:31.0 2011-09-23)
83 km S Fuencaliente de la palma (pop 1,894 ; local time 17:45:31.0 2011-09-23)

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Cdkanas says:

September 23, 2011 at 6:57 pm

Is this the same island that has a large landslide waiting to be triggered? The one that could produce a monsterous tidal wave?

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- The Extinction Protocol says:
  
  September 23, 2011 at 10:33 pm
  
  That’s La Palma…El Hierro’s landslide would be much smaller but still very dramatic. Here’s a map of the islands:
  
  http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyvPzG3ONWxlm7gQjtlVSdAPEZQgYqyUoHmbiSAJ88BTWVqakJvQ
  
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- tatou says:
  
  September 24, 2011 at 5:35 pm
  
  yes it is. Canary islands are composed of 7 principal islands ( Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera ,El Hierro, Fuertaventura, Lanzarote, La Palma)
  The one “that could produce a monsterous tidal wave” is La Palma.
  Tsunami modeling of the La Palma collapse (Ward & Day (2001) is based on the conjecture that a massive failure of a large crustal block – up to 500 cubic Km in volume – cascades 60 km out to sea in only 10 minutes, by rafting on a highly pressurized layer of mud or fault gouge breccia, before reaching rest at the flat portion of the ocean, at 4,000 meters
  
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Irene Carmichael says:

September 23, 2011 at 8:10 pm

Amazing how little we hear about this outside of your site. Thank you for the update.

Maranatha

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yamkin says:

September 23, 2011 at 10:05 pm

Quake swarms in Turkey & Greece

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The Extinction Protocol says:

September 25, 2011 at 2:39 pm

c/o Luisport

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Jón Frímann says:
September 24, 2011 at 22:08
I am getting more convinced that a eruption is going to happen at EL Hierro volcano. Given the earthquake activity that is taking place there at the moment. But it hard to know for sure if that eruption is going to happen in few weeks time or in 10 years time.

The latest earthquake was a ML3.3 in size with the depth of 14 km. See here, http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=236815#

Pyter says:
September 25, 2011 at 02:07
earthquakes El Hierro – http://www.01.ign.es/ign/layoutIn/sismoListadoTerremotos.do?zona=1&cantidad_dias=10

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Actualidad-Volc%C3%A1nica-de-Canarias-AVCAN/163883668446

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Gene says:

September 29, 2011 at 3:53 pm

I watch the USGS world wide earth quake reports every day and have not seen any report of seismic activity in the Canary Islands. However, I see reports on the web for activity at Hierro. I wonder why there is a gap in data??
Gene

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- The Extinction Protocol says:
  
  September 29, 2011 at 8:29 pm
  
  Gene, there is a reason why it’s called the USGS, U.S. Geological Survey…the staff is not paid to monitor earthquake activity in other countries. Every country has their own geological department. The U.S. does not record quakes below 3.0 outside the U.S. Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and U.S. protectorates. Nevertheless, you can find the earthquakes listed on a couple of the links below:
  
  http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/
  http://www.ign.es/ign/resources/volcanologia/boletin_HIERRO.txt
  
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December 26, 2011 at 10:15 am

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- The Extinction Protocol says:
  
  December 26, 2011 at 5:38 pm
  
  Thanks Polly. Glad you found us…
  
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