Category Archives: Spain

Earthquake activity drops in El Hierro volcano

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Jón Frímann

Earthquake activity in El Hierro volcano has started to drop off again. During the last 24 hour period there have only been something around 28 earthquakes. But earthquake activity did peak with 182 earthquakes during 24 hour period … Continue reading →

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Constant earthquake activity in El Hierro voclano

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Jón Frímann

On the 14. September 2012 an earthquake swarm started in El Hierro volcano, Canary Islands, Spain. The earthquake swarm is currently ongoing and there have been more then 300 earthquakes already. The earthquake activity is more or less … Continue reading →

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Continuous earthquake activity in El Hierro volcano

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Jón Frímann

There have not been great changes in El Hierro volcano. Currently no eruption has taken place. There are also no signs of magma movement on tremor plots on seismometers stations that are located on El Hierro Island. The … Continue reading →

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Short update on activity in El Hierro volcano, Canary Islands / Corto sobre la actividad de actualización en el volcán de El Hierro, Islas Canarias

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Jón Frímann

This is just a short update on El Hierro volcano activity. I plan on making a longer blog post tomorrow when I am not so tired. Current earthquake activity in El Hierro volcano is continues. The rate of … Continue reading →

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Update on El Hierro volcano activity

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Jón Frímann

This is a short update on the activity in El Hierro volcano. In the last 24 hours there have been no major changes in the activity of El Hierro volcano. No eruption has started yet. But earthquake activity … Continue reading →

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Analyze on events in El Hierro volcano

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Jón Frímann

This is a short analyze of what is happening in El Hierro volcano. What is taking place in El Hierro volcano has an simple explanation. What is taking place in El Hierro volcano is an dike intrusion. This … Continue reading →

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New activity in El Hierro volcano, Canary Islands

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Jón Frímann

While this blog now covers mostly Icelandic volcanoes. I am going to cover other volcanoes from time to time. New earthquake activity started around 21:26 UTC in El Hierro volcano with an earthquake that had magnitude ML3.1 with … Continue reading →

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Continued earthquake activity in El Hierro volcano

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Jón Frímann

While the eruption in El Hierro volcano ended some time ago, there has been an constant earthquake activity ongoing in El Hierro volcano. While this earthquake activity has not been in high volume at the moment. It has … Continue reading →

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A ML3.3 earthquake in Tenerife volcano

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Jón Frímann

Today at 13:28 UTC there was an ML3.3 earthquake in Tenerife volcano. The depth of this earthquake was at 31 km depth. But I do not know if this earthquake was felt, so far nothing suggests it. But … Continue reading →

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Interesting earthquake activity in El Hierro volcano

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Jón Frímann

Over the past two weeks there has been interesting earthquake activity in El Hierro volcano in Canary Islands. What is so interesting about this earthquakes is the fact they are getting more shallow every day or so. Currently … Continue reading →

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