Volcano and Earthquake watch

[T & P]

I could be wrong but I thought the current eruption has popped out off one of the sides of the volcano, rather than the vent itself? I guess it’s impossible to predict the likely flow direction of any future eruption if you can’t even trust the volcano to have the decency to spew its shit out of its central vent…

 

[farmerbarleymow]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Impressive shock-wave at 0.28

La Palma residents warned of ‘evolution of volcanic emergency’

People evacuated from three towns are told they cannot return as volcano has entered new explosive phase

www.theguardian.com

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is a useful article showing the extent of the lava, etc.

La Palma volcano: Visual guide to what happened

A series of maps and charts explaining what happened after an eruption in the Spanish Canary Islands.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[T & P]

Erupting volcanos are of course one of the most amazing visual spectacles in nature, but so much as one can judge it from TV footage, the noise is also amazing. It seems particularly loud with this eruption, I guess it varies depending on the intensity of the eruption, size of vents and how close the footage is being film from. But it must be an epic sensory experience if one is there

 

[Badgers]

At least one dead after 5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Greek island of Crete

upday.com

f7td5.app.goo.gl

 

[farmerbarleymow]

At least one dead after 5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Greek island of Crete

upday.com

f7td5.app.goo.gl

It's all kicking off tectonically at the moment.

 

[T & P]

The 'miracle house' is no more...

La Palma volcano: Family's anguish as lava destroys 'miracle house'

The owners of the so-called miracle house are devastated after it succumbed to the lava flow.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Still going strong - chucked out 80m cubic metres of stuff, double the amount of the last eruption.

Canary Islands volcano ‘much more aggressive’ as new fissures erupt

More lava spews out on to La Palma island as scientists record eight earthquakes up to magnitude 3.5

www.theguardian.com

 

[petee]

This is a useful article showing the extent of the lava, etc.

La Palma volcano: Visual guide to what happened

A series of maps and charts explaining what happened after an eruption in the Spanish Canary Islands.

www.bbc.co.uk

beach of the damned?

 

[T & P]

On the plus side, now that the lava has reached the sea, the island is becoming larger by the hour.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

‘Volcanoes are life’: how the ocean is enriched by eruptions devastating on land

Lava is destroying much of La Palma but the last eruption in the Canaries appears to have ‘fertilised’ the surrounding seas

www.theguardian.com

 

[2hats]

Still roaring away in full Strombolian mode. Has been producing some spectacular gravity wave structures in recent days.

 

[Badgers]

 

[MrCurry]

A 5.8 earthquake hit the island of Crete on sept 27, killing one person and now today another one to the SE of the island, 6.3 on the Richter scale! I was there a few weeks ago and didn’t regard it as a dangerous place, but it just goes to show you can’t take things for granted!

Edit: USGS has it as 6.4, this is a big earthquake so hope there’s been no loss of life

 

[platinumsage]

England is at risk of earthquakes too, although everyone, including local authority building control, seem to have forgotten. For example there have been two earthquakes in the Dover Straits that caused widespread damage in Kent and London (in 1382 and 1580). If a similar one hits there will be chaos due to our love of thin-walled brick houses.

 

[Flavour]

There is a thread for all volcano and earthquake stuff buried in science & nature:

Volcano and Earthquake watch

I could be wrong but I thought the current eruption has popped out off one of the sides of the volcano, rather than the vent itself? I guess it’s impossible to predict the likely flow direction of any future eruption if you can’t even trust the volcano to have the decency to spew its shit out of...

www.urban75.net

 

[MrCurry]

There is a thread for all volcano and earthquake stuff buried in science & nature:

Volcano and Earthquake watch

I could be wrong but I thought the current eruption has popped out off one of the sides of the volcano, rather than the vent itself? I guess it’s impossible to predict the likely flow direction of any future eruption if you can’t even trust the volcano to have the decency to spew its shit out of...

www.urban75.net

Much obliged. That’s a better home for this discussion - I’ll ask mods to move it

 

[Badgers]

Searing hot boulders the size of three-storey buildings have flowed down the side of a volcano in the Canary Islands as a string of tremors shook the ground three weeks after it erupted.

The accompanying river of scorching magma, reaching temperatures of up to 1,240C (2,264F), also destroyed the last few properties that remained standing in the village of Todoque on La Palma, according to scientists.

La Palma volcano: Eruption spews searing hot boulders the size of three-storey buildings

An accompanying flow of scorching magma, reaching temperatures of up to 1,240C (2,264F), destroys the last few properties that remained standing in a devastated village, as tremors strike other communities.

news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[farmerbarleymow]

 

[Flavour]

Doesn't show any sign of stopping, does it? Looks like an entire portion (the southwestern) of the island will be rendered more or less uninhabitable for a long time

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Doesn't show any sign of stopping, does it? Looks like an entire portion (the southwestern) of the island will be rendered more or less uninhabitable for a long time

I think they said it typically erupts for a few weeks at a time, which it seems to have been doing so far. But it's the perils of living on a volcano really - nowt anyone can do about it.

 

[Flavour]

"typically" doesn't really come into it with volcanoes like theses ones I don't think: each eruption is different. the last one was in 1971 or so and it was nothing like as big as this. last time there was an eruption on this scale was in the 1940s but i'm not sure even that was as bad.

granted there are some other volcanoes in the Med which are pretty regular and predictable but these Canary island ones not among them to the best of my knowledge.

that being said the danger of a mega-tsunami does appear to have been vastly exaggerated by a BBC doc 20 years ago -- seems there's fairly little danger of that. but i do wonder if it might wipe out more towns

 

[T & P]

A new lava stream has appeared in the last day or two.

The first few seconds in this video are breathtaking. Look at the speed of the thing...

 

[T & P]

RIP, traffic bollard

 

[existentialist]

RIP, traffic bollard

I remember watching a video thing in the Geological Museum when I was a kid, of a lava flow just like that. I'm recalling the sense of slow, implacable destruction rather well at the moment, watching that tweet...

 

[MrCurry]

RIP, traffic bollard

And yet if you or I did that, we’d get in trouble. One rule for one, another for lava.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

RIP, traffic bollard

The traffic control measures clearly work - the bollard has stopped the lava.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is a good pic, showing the extent of ash deposits.

 

[T & P]

The traffic control measures clearly work - the bollard has stopped the lava.

Not for long, I suspect. But future archeologists will be very excited in a few thousand years when they discovered the bizarre object emtombed in rock