The Earthquakes do not stop

DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS | Santa Cruz de Tenerife

The island of El Hierro registered at 3.27 am on Sunday, another earthquake felt by the population. The earthquake of 3.7 magnitude on the Richter scale, was located in the northwest of La Frontera, 21 miles deep, while another 2.9 degrees was also felt on the seven o'clock, also in the municipality of El Golfo.

Also at 03.04 am this morning there was localised a quake of 3.1 magnitude on the Richter scale in the northwest of La Frontera, 21 miles deep. At the moment, IGN does not collect this shaking which has been felt by the population. According to the National Geographic Institute (IGN), until seven in the evening of Sunday, El Hierro had recorded a total of 18 earthquakes of 1.8 and 3.7 magnitude on the Richter scale.

The strongest

IGN reported that the quake highest since the crisis began seismic El Hierro, on July 17, took place yesterday at half past two o'clock, when it recorded a 5.0 magnitude on the Richter scale in the area called Atlantic-Madeira, northwest of the island of La Palma.

El volcanological Institute of the Canaries (Involcan) has moved to the direction of Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk Islands (Pevolca) the results of the 8100 diffuse flux measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) on the island of El Sunday, El Hierro is have materialized over the entire surface of the island of Isla Meridian.

These measures reflect the registration of an upward trend of the diffuse emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere by the volcano island of El Sunday, El Hierro has reached 1665 ± 63 tons per day, an amount equivalent to 4.83 times the considered normal average value for the diffuse emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) on the island of El Sunday, El Hierro (345 tonnes per day).

With this analysis assesses the spatial-temporal variations of the diffuse emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere by the volcanic system island of El Hierro in the context of the recent earthquake-volcanic crisis affecting the island.

Escape of Gases

In studies carried out by Involcan, it is found that the gases represent the driving force of volcanic eruptions and carbon dioxide (CO2) is the second major component of volcanic gases after water vapor. Its low solubility in molten-magma-ago requested that this gas to escape with their ease of volcanic systems in depth, volcanological Institute reported yesterday in the Canaries.