Ecuador/Colombia - Chiles Volcano possibly coming to life

[Bob]

Seismic Activity Near the Chiles volcanoes magmatic in origin likely - Mount Black, microswarms, swarms, harmonic tremor appearing.. at the border between Ecuador and Colombia.

ALERT NOTICE

This report has been prepared in coordination with the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Pasto (OVSP) Geological Survey of Colombia, and refers to the seismic activity in the area of ​​Black and Chiles Cerro volcanoes along the border between Ecuador and Colombia , which are classified as potentially active volcanoes.

The seismic swarm recently recorded in this area, has since mid-February 2014 continued.

It is manifesting a high number of earthquakes. In the seismic monitoring station OVSP have posted about 9,000 earthquakes between 29 April and 5 May 2014, most associated with rock fracturing (volcano-tectonic VTs activity).

In CHL2 seismic station located in the south-eastern and a member Chiles flank Geophysical Institute 1309 events have been recorded between 1 and 6 May.

Some of these events (at least 13) have low frequencies so they can be classified as earthquakes Long Period (LP) and Very Long Period (VLP by the acronym in English).

LP and VLP earthquakes are usually associated with activity within active or potentially active volcanoes.

The greatest earthquake recorded so far has a magnitude of 4.8 and occurred on 30 April at 00h43 (local time).

This earthquake was felt in Tufiño, Johannesburg, The Angel Ibarra, Cotacachi and towns in Colombia as the population of Chiles.

In addition to this event, another 13 earthquakes were reported felt in nearby towns in the last week.

Other significant earthquakes occurred on 30 April at 00h47 with magnitude 3.3, the same April 30 at 03h58 with magnitude 3.1 and magnitude 3.2 20h22; later on 1 May at 03h01 with magnitude 3.3 and 4 May at 00h50 at magnitude 3.1.

The earthquakes are located on the southern flank of the volcano Chiles with depths less than 13 km, that is relatively close to the surface areas.

The spatial distribution of seismic sources shows no alignment with any tectonic fault zone and the occurrence of LP and VLP earthquakes, suggests that its origin is volcanic.

Today, Geophysical Institute officials traveled to the area of ​​the Cerro Black Chiles and volcanoes to install additional seismic station and a sensor terrain deformation or swelling in this area.


report from the Geophysical Institute - http://www.igepn.edu.ec/

Colombia's Geological Institute also issued this warning:


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Some images


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Nevado_Chiles_465.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Colombia_relief_location_map.jpg/250px-Colombia_relief_location_map.jpg

The volcano has not erupted for around 160,000 years. This is a concern to scientists monitoring this volcano.

There have been radical shifts appearing since the Chilean 8.2 quake of April 1, 2014 in the region.

Historical and background:

The Chiles is a Stratovolcano in the Snowy Pastures knot in the western Andean cordillera in Colombia , and along with the volcano Cerro Black Mayasquer constitute part of the border between Colombia and Ecuador.

Is located in the vicinity of the Police Inspectorate of Chiles, Township Cumbal , Colombia, 86 km SW of the city of Pasto , Colombia, 24 km west of the city of Tulcán , Ecuador, and 608 km SW of Santa Fe de Bogotá.

It is a volcano that is part of the volcanic complex Chiles-Cerro Black. It covers an area of ​​7,351 square meters of the strip that integrates volcanic corridor next to Cumbal and Azufral.

Features
The Chiles volcano is a volcano-type layer active, dominantly effusive with evidence of highly explosive stages. Its crater has 1 km in diameter. The Chiles activity is not constant but keeps snow glaciers on the flanks and within the caldera.

Age : In the absence of radiometric dates, you can assign a relative Quaternary age.

Historical Activity : Historical investigations conclude that there are no historical records of eruptive activity of these volcanoes.

Current Activity : The current activity of this volcanic complex is manifested in the presence of thermal and solfataras sources. On the Ecuadorian side of Chiles is a seismological station registered activity every few years. Between November 2013 and May 2014 around the volcanic complex suffered numerous earthquakes of very long period volcanic character. (See Ecuador Geophysical Institute report above).

Hydrology : In the wasteland of three micro Chiles born: Chiles or Gemagan, Capote or Nazate and Javita, from which they derive water tributaries among which are John Chiles, La Calera, El Barro, El Hondon and La Ceja, sources Guáitara river.

[ghostrider]

Everyone forgets Fukushima's meltdown , those nuclear cores are melting their way through our mantle ...

[Bob]

That whole area in Japan sits on the Ring of Fire, same one going thru Alaska, Vancouver Island, Cascades in Washington State, Oregon, thru California, thru Centra America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and down to Chile..

I think we are seeing this oscillation which I pointed out in the other volcanic thread, where this big IMPULSE wave appears to be traveling up and down this channel.

FUKU unfortunately is releasing its radiation now. I have noted an INCREASE in background radiation levels almost double in the last 3 months. Chernobyl when it crashed, background levels spiked to 2X normal levels, and then within 90 days dropped closer to normal. With the FUKU disaster, the levels have continued to climb and HAVE NOT dropped.

Solar activity is particles reaching the earth from Coronal Hole. This activity has been noted to increase seismic and volcanic actions, the assumption is the extra energy has to be absorbed so the plates melt a bit and slips occur.

I am thinking that the solar activity (Coronal particle stream), plus this low slow oscillating wave (which was noted in the OP by the volcanologists) traveling up and down this massive chain/river could very well be contributing to instability, irritability, stress reactions in a lot of living systems, as well as the geological systems. I would not be surprised to see activity spikes in Alaska, and Japan and Indonesia shortly if this wave continues.

Normally I would have believed this wave would have damped out over time, like with any normal oscillating system, resistance or counter flows tend to damp a wave, as seen in the seismic events signatures, however in this case we are seeing a building up of the wave. In my opinion that can only be due to other contributing factors, such as new MELTS happening due to the Chilean 8.2m event of 1 April 14.. And/or there is a deeper oscillating magnetic event occurring. I would suggest that folks who have magnetometers keep an eye on the swings of the 3 axis to see if this is the case.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Duffing_oscillator_limit_cycle.gif

Forced oscillation example (Quake pulse):


http://www.maplesoft.com/view.aspx?SI=3926/forced_oscillations125.gif

What could also be happening is that there are multiple impulses from different directions traveling along the ring of fire, when they interact, we see stresses peaked. And coupled with increased solar, an increase in event activity may be occurring.

[Cardillac]

my biggest concern is the ever increasing awakening of Yellowstone and not any volcanic activeness in the Pacific in the labeled "ring of fire"-

we humans tend to think nothing "bad" can happen to us because of the increase of "Indigo" children/entities being born on this planet at this time- or so we've been told- well, whatever- if these entities even exist, and we've been told they're here to raise us to a "higher level" (whatever), could it be they're here (if they really exist) to be the last remnants/survivors of yet another extinction on this planet?-

am not trying to be negative but just simply realistic- I truly hope I'm wrong-

Larry

[Bob]

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Thanks Larry, understood about your concerns on Yellowstone, or other hotspot volcanoes.. I definitely have concerns, but I am watching this "ring" for these reasons.. The majority of volcanoes sitting on this are by major population centers. And the majority of those volcanoes erupt with nasty explosions, or lahar's (rock/mud/water-flow, or pyroclastic ash flow).. Disasterous..

BUT, big time potential here:

The Toba supervolcano located on the island of Sumatra, which erupted 70,000 years ago, created a global catastrophe, creating six years of volcanic winter.


http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/007/148/i02/ring-of-fire-101026-ls-02.jpg?1296088216

Thing is Ring of Fire, can trigger that really big one which does sit on the ring.. from tsunamis headed towards the US and other parts of the Pacific, to a major explosive event possibly as large or larger than Yellowstone, see this link: http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcanoes/indonesia/sumatra/toba/

Toba was said to have created the larges volcanic event ever seen on the face of planet earth (maybe that is embellishing it a bit, but they believe this one is really nasty)

This is the techy stuff:

About 74,000 years BP, more than 2500 cubic kilometers of magma were erupted. The eruption led to the final formation of one of earths largest calderas, the 35x100 km wide (3500 sq kilometers) Toba caldera. Eruptions of this size are exptremely rare and are called supervolcano-eruptions. The Toba caldera is in fact the Earth's largest Quaternary caldera. It was formed during four major Pleistocene ignimbrite-producing eruptions beginning at 1.2 million years ago and culminating with the colossal Young Toba Tuff (YTT) eruption about 74,000 years ago. The YTT emplaced about 2500-3000 cu km (dense rock equivalent) of ignimbrite and airfall ash from vents at the NW and SE ends of present-day Lake Toba.

After the YTT eruption, resurgent doming formed the massive Samosir Island and Uluan Peninsula structural blocks.

Additional post-YTT eruptions include a series of lava domes, the growth of the solfatarically active Pusukbukit volcano on the south margin of the caldera, and the formation of Tandukbenua volcano at the NW-most rim of the caldera. Lack of vegetation suggests that this volcano may be only a few hundred years old.

What size is Yellowstone's multi-volcanic caldera?

A: 55 by 80 km (4400 sq kilometers)

What is the size of the magma dome for Yellowstone? (volume)

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_sub_page_52.html

The magma chamber is believed to be about 40 by 80 kilometers across, similar in size to the overlying Yellowstone caldera. The top of the chamber is about 8 km deep and the bottom is around 16 km deep. However, the chamber is not completely filled with fluid magma. It contains a partial melt, meaning that only a portion of the rock is molten (about 10 to 30%); the rest of the material is solid but, of course, remains hot.


http://www.uusatrg.utah.edu/FIGURES/New_Plume.jpg

How much Magma would erupt as Lava, or gas, or ash? Dunno.

What would feed such an event? A crack from the lake bottom dumping water into the top layer would not reach the lower layers. What would feed the bottom upwards pressure-wise? If there is no subduction zone, or plate (this is a hot spot that is slowly moving) ?

With the SuperVolcano in Sumatra, on the west side of the Ring of fire, there are multiple faults present, many plates pressing against each other, and there appears to be this repeated oscillation with numerous eruptions happening along the ring of fire:

http://volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm

Look at this current map of the eruptions happening on the ring - all this is oscillating, and pulsing as shown in the seismic activity maps, and to me that is worrisome..


http://chanlo.com/images/may-11-volcanism.jpg

[guayabal]

"Chiles" is the name of the volcano. Please remove the aphostrophe from the title (just put "...Chiles volcano...") to avoid confussion with "Chile" the country and then remove this post.

[Bob]

"Chiles" is the name of the volcano. Please remove the aphostrophe from the title (just put "...Chiles volcano...") to avoid confussion with "Chile" the country and then remove this post.

Now corrected, thanks for the catch. The rest of the thread is correct as far as the name "Chiles"


OP, POST #1

Seismic Activity Near the Chiles volcanoes magmatic in origin likely - Mount Black, microswarms, swarms, harmonic tremor appearing.. at the border between Ecuador and Colombia.

How close are you to the volcano - your location says you live in Cali? Have you felt the tremors?

[Cardillac]

@bobd

many thanks for your incredibly detailed response- greatly appreciated!-

so what's up with Yellowstone?- should we sweep this under a carpet in favor of the activity of the Pacific ring of fire?-

obviously the Pacific ring of fire would endanger many populous areas but if Yellowstone should blow in its entirety (heaven forbid) it would affect just as many people, if not more, than those living in the Pacific ring of fire-

am just askin'/wondrin'...

stay well!

Larry

[Bob]

Hi Larry, I think we should keep alert on all this, and look at the source of what is triggering the seismic events, which appear at times to be relieved with slippage, then melting at the slippage spots. I tracked yellowstone at one point some years ago when St. Helens and other spots in California were rocking, and the seismic events did show up, sort of like an oscillation in some manner was happening between the zones.. So could a quake somewhere that is tied in kick off an event that seems to be far away, not associated? I think so from what I have seen.

Like in Ecuador, if one looks at the seismic events and eruptions happening (and when they abruptly stop), there appears to be a similar super-volcano potential, looking at the magmatic river(s) (?) that feed the volcanoes.. Like how deep are they, and what if a massive event cause that whole chain to erupt, or activate. A new super-volcano-like event could happen, and that theoretically had happened, looking at the eastern calderas from Reventador (Ecuador), east - south north and slightly west, in ancient times it could have very well been dome collapse indicating massive magma..

I am enjoying studying this and reporting it when I can sort out what's happening fast enough. Tying in physics, solar is good I believe cause more science can be added to sort thru the data.

Bob

[guayabal]

Hello Bob, sorry for not answering sooner... yes I live in Cali Colombia and I didn't feel any tremors.
Nicolas

[Bob]

13th May weekly report on Black and Chiles volcanoes

Weekly Bulletin Chiles activity and volcanoes Cerro Black - May 13, 2014

Pasto, May 13, 2014 4:00 pm Doctor DELGADO RAUL GUERRERO Governor Department of Nariño City Subject:

Weekly Bulletin activity Chiles Cerro Black Volcanoes and level of activity of volcanoes remains: YELLOW LEVEL (III) ALERT remains:

CHANGES IN THE BEHAVIOR OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY from monitoring activity BLACK CHILLI AND CERRO, the Colombian GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OBSERVATORY VULCANOLOGICAL and Seismological GRASS (SGC-OVSP) VOLCANOES highlights:

During this week the network Chiles and monitoring of volcanoes in the Black Mountain Colombian-Ecuadorian border, recorded around 8800 earthquakes associated with rock fracturing.

Most of them were located in the south, south-southwest of the volcano Chiles at distances between 1 and 4 km, with depths between 2 and 6 km for the top and magnitudes of up to 4.3 on the Richter scale.

During this period, 19 earthquakes were reported felt by inhabitants of the indigenous reserve of Chiles with magnitudes between 2.1 and 4.3 on the Richter scale.

Continuous crustal deformation of the volcanic building recorded since November 2013 in the installed stations in these volcanoes.

On 7 and 8 May SGC-staff OVSP conducted field work in the area of volcanoes Chiles - Black Hill in order to study the manifestations of activity in surface water samples taken for analysis.

Overall acidity is highlighted in several of the hot springs and fumarolic fields.

There are areas with evidence of the presence of carbon monoxide or dioxide that cause the death of birds and insects, which has been observed and registered in the past according to the residents, continues working with the Geophysical Institute of the National Polytechnic School in Quito (IG- EPN) in the analysis of this activity and corresponding volcanic threat.

SGC will continue to oversee the evolution of volcanic phenomena and report on the changes can be detected.

Sincerely, by DIEGO GOMEZ MARTINEZ Working Group Coordinator Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Pasto

ref: http://www.sgc.gov.co/Pasto/Publicaciones/Reportes-de-actividad/Reportes-semanales/2014/Mayo/Boletin-semanal-de-actividad-de-los-volcanes-C-1.aspx

[Bob]

24 May Chilles Volcano - Colombia/Ecuador seismic activity

On 21/05/2014 at 3:44:30 pm local time, an earthquake of magnitude 4.0 was recorded on the Richter scale with its epicenter at 2.6 km south west of Chiles volcano. The location of the Colombian Volcano Observatory GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - Pasto is: Latitude: 0 ° 48.03 ' Longitude: -77 ° -57.03 ' Depth: 3 km Magnitude: 4.0 on the Richter scale nearest Capital: CHILES 11.6 km from the epicenter Cumbal 21.2 km from the epicenter Ipiales to 34.2 km from the epicenter COMMENTS: The event was reported as felt by inhabitants of the Indigenous Reservation of Chiles.

There were numerous quakes from 3-4m on the 21st May.

This corresponded with regional activity the same day, at the volcanoes present further south in Ecuador.


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