La Palma volcano (Canary Islands (Spain)) activity update: Yellow alert for Cumbre Vieja declared

Mo, 13. Sep 2021, 19:49

19:49 PM | VON: MJFLEGEND

Updated plot of the ongoing swarm.

The strong earthquake swarm is continuing beneath Cumbre Vieja, and now PEVOLCA has raised the alert level to Yellow, citing the repeated occurance of earthquake swarms since 2017, with this one being the strongest and also the shallowest, suggesting magma is slowly rising into the edifice. Measurements of Helium-3 gas flux are also indicating this.

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