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Canary Islands Earthquake Swarm Continues

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Earthquake swarm signals volcanic activity increasing in the Canary Islands

Published on July 31, 2011 7:15 am PT
– By Jim Duran – Writer
– Article Editor and Approved – Ron Jackson


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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — The El Hierro Volcano in the Canary Islands, Spam, has been swarming with over 700 earthquakes since yesterday.

Most of the quakes have been around Magnitude 2.0 however these are tight clusters between 9 and 16 km down with some being as shallow as 4 km.

The shape of the events show a magma chamber underneath. and magma may be filling the magma chamber below the volcano as a cause.

to read more, go to:   http://theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-07_31_2011_canary.html

Earthquake Activity in Canary Islands

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Earthquake activity below El Hierro volcano, Canary Islands, Spain

Last update: July 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm by By Tom Pering

 

Recently El Hierro volcano of the Canary Islands has been experiencing a seismic swarm beneath it, which as of yesterday reached to over 700 events.

Most of these events have been at Magnitudes of around 2 (+/-0.5) and are clustered beneath El Hierro whilst the depths of these earthquakes have been roughly between 9 and 16 km for the most part, with the exception of a few shallower and deeper quakes, the shallowest of which has been around 4 km (as of 27/04/11 8am GMT for the plotted data below) but as shallow as 1 km following this.
If we look at these earthquakes in two plots here http://www.volcano-blog.com/hierro.html we can see the clustering of these earthquakes is mainly confined to an oval area at 10 km depth.

to read more, go to::    http://earthquake-report.com/2011/07/28/earquake-activity-below-el-hierro-volcano-canary-islands-spain/