A Forecast Remains of a 4.6 Earthquake

A Forecast Remains of a 4.6 Earthquake

DIARIOELHIERRO.ES, writing (21.11.2011. 16:05 pm)

The scientific group of Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk (Pevolca) confirmed this morning that in El Hierro, that an earthquake with a maximum magnitude seismicity expected of 4.6, taking into account "the analysis of the seismic catalogue of the past twenty days" .

In any case, the number of earthquakes has decreased in recent days, and frequency, producing a significant record in the early hours of Saturday to Sunday "with a wave of magnitude 3.7".

Scientists confirm that the seismicity occurs in the same alignment NNW SSE, in the municipality of Frontera, but always at a depth of between 15 and 27 kilometers. The evolution of the eruptive process, therefore, "remains stable, but leaves open the scenario of a possible eruption in the North, who has not, in any case, showing characteristcs of an imminent eruption."