Tirelessly updating Avalon on the El Hierro eruption.

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The port of La Restinga brown foam in the water. | FRAN Pallera

La Restinga at dawn is smelling of gases and with Volcanic Foam in the Harbour

VICENTE PEREZ (Special Envoy) | La Restinga

La Restinga is showing signs of volcanic activity with the arrival of more gas, foam and volcanic material to its port, originating from the submarine eruption for more than a month occurring under the sea a mile from this village.

Special envoys visited Diario De Avisios Sunday morning in La Restinga and ascertained the smell of volcanic gases in the port environment in which stagnant water could be seen sparkling stains the entrance of of volcanic material (without observing pyroclastic ) and dead fish, including some cephalopods.

The stench is nauseating at times, causing some respiratory discomfort if a person gets too close to the sea, even in the neighborhood there is a mobile unit for measuring air quality continuously and the authorities have decreed any access restrictions.

Sources from the National Geographic Institute (IGN) also indicated that if warned that these concentrations are harmful to health , measures would be taken, which has not happened yet.

The currents also has drawn a long patch of brown foam, broken down into discrete points, in which fish are dead, that has been accumulating on Sunday. The entire coast is also affected by the fumes of sulfur and other gases that leave a green color, today, solar radiation and the lack of clouds, very visible in contrast to the blue of the ocean is not exposed to these fumes .

The green patch extends from north to south and South East,, giving headlong into the Sea of Calms, opposite El Julan, a marine reserve housing a rich biodiversity, the victim now an authentic holocaust.

By the streets were some residents, including with a review with some fishermen at the dock, but overall the atmosphere is one of loneliness. Yesterday opened a few bars, including the El Refugio, one of the proprieters, Alexis Morales, who showed their intention to continue to open their business every day, even among its customers abound with geologists and journalists covering the volcanic eruption .

The Bubbling is Once Again Seen

Focused around the volcano, where on Sunday a slight bubble has reappeared and is clearly identified with a brown hue, the vessel Ramon Margalef , oceanographic research, conducting biometrics, in an attempt to find out, how much of the surface area is the focus eruption. The latest data was known on 28 October, when the submarine was top of the crater 180 meters from the surface and the base 300, an open space at the foot of an area that the fishermen called La Tablada. (The Table)

"If It had gone out via the table, there is less than 200 meters deep, but where it came from the volcano there is a valley and Hundur growing fast," said a fisherman yesterday, skeptical about the chances that the crater ends up coming to the surface. "We have to give time," said geologist today the team that makes the official monitoring the eruption.

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David Cabrera de Leon, Mayor of La Frontera

La Frontera requires the reopening of the tunnel and the review of measures taken in the municipality

DIARIOELHIERRO.ES, writing (13.11.2011. 18:43 pm)

The Mayor of the City of La Frontera, David Cabrera de Leon, today demanded a review of all the preventive measures taken in the municipality, including the reopening of the road of Sabina, the return home of displaced families of Las Puntas, and the the tunnel reopened Roquille,''taking into account all that the city has more than 11,000 supporting and seismic risk areas considered to have stood perfectly for each and every one of them.''

The mayor of La Frontera disapproved of the Government of the Canary Islands on Friday, which would not have contemplated in its decree a specific aid package for the town and the social and economic reality is going through a hard situation that is aggravated by the maintenance of these measures, especially with the closing of tunnels Roquille, which is causing untold losses to the local economy.

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A geologist says that in Spain there is no consciousness to live in a seismic country

EFE | Pamplona

The geologist at the University of Navarra Antonio Aretxabala stressed that in Spain there is no consciousness of living in a seismic country and indeed, when the earthquake struck Lorca, "People ran out of buildings, instead of running for cover" .

However, he acknowledged that these days it has begun to see a change: "The children of El Hierro are receiving training on how to deal with an earthquake, just as is done in countries with high seismic activity such as Japan, Colombia and United States ".

This was stated by Aretxabala Antonio at a conference on his "Spain, a seismic country: consequences of recent earthquakes architecture," delivered at the Planetarium of Pamplona, in the weeks of the Science, Innovation and Technology campus.

Aretxabala, according to information provided by the academic center in a statement, defended the need for further investigation of several complementary methods for predicting earthquakes, and the emission of gases and Paleoseismology, consisting of layers of sediment to study analyze and detect seismic disturbances times stronger movements.

In this regard, China has indicated that it also studies the behavior of animals, as some species detect earthquakes with much anticipation, like cows and elephants, while those in proximity of these animals, it would provide a few minutes warning before they happen.

The expert, professor of the Laboratory Building of the School of Architecture, also stressed the recent experiences of earthquakes, such as occurred on Wednesday, 20 km from Van (Turkey), have shown that seismic construction standards "do not save lives alone, or mitigate disasters. "

"They have to be accompanied by other measures such as urban planning and pedagogy," he assured.

As an example, he said that in Istanbul, where a major earthquake is expected within the next 20 or 30 years,they have already begun to implement preventive measures to be "a megalopolis of 12 million inhabitants in which 60% of buildings are vulnerable from the viewpoint of earthquake resistance. "

According to information provided by by Aretxabala at the academic center in a statement, he defended the need for further investigation of several complementary methods for predicting earthquakes, and the emission of gases and Paleoseismology, consisting of layers of sediment to study analyze and detect seismic disturbances times stronger movements.

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La Frontera is more afraid of ruin, than of the volcano of El Hierro

"We have made a prison." Servilius Lopez is a resident of La Frontera, the economic capital of El Hierro. And the beautiful prison to which he refers is the area of the Gulf, the flattest of the island, where production is concentrated pineapple, banana and other fruits and vegetables. For them, this is the drama of the region, and the announcement yesterday that it had appeared more likely an undersea volcano off the coast.

In the 2 Din Don bar revolves the social gathering on the economic impact of the measure. But there is no need for much explanation. After nearly an hour to travel 40 kilometers from Valverde, a foggy mountain road, leaving visibility less than 20 meters in some sections, one understands the difficulties which it refers. And when last Saturday the same journey through Los Roquille tunnel, the road speed remained at 15 km and it took less than one quarter of an hour, carefully respecting the speed limits.

"If there is danger of detachment in the tunnel, there is more on the road to the summit," says Pucho Padron, who owns the bar that has become the center of impromptu meeting by the residents. "Look at the last tremors. There were landslides on the road. In the tunnel, not one. It has always been like that, especially when it rains, like today," he explains.

The closure of the highway is causing an injury that no one has yet quantified: "It's more fuel, more time, and more stress on the road," says Padrón. Residents are also distrustful that they can not use the tunnel, unless by use of the security and emergency vehicles, as confirmed by the spokesman for the City of La Frontera. "Is that being put in danger?" Asks Register.

The region feels further marginalized in the allocation of grants announced by the Canarian Government, who see that they are centered in La Restinga in the south of the island. "Here also are evacuees," Lopez complains, referring to the fifty people who take a week away from their homes by the danger that there desrrumbes by earthquakes, which in this area is where they have been larger (size 4, 6 in the morning of Friday, with possibility to be more, which was admitted by the director of the National Geographic Institute in the Canaries, José María Blanco).

After four months and more than 11,400 earthquake tremors, residents are increasingly less concerned. A proof is that housing has not been, as yet, damaged. That reassures the one hand, but on the other raises the suspicions of the people on precautionary measures dictated. Blanco clarified that the type of movement and acceleration far from the 0.04 G (four hundredths of Earth's gravity) that establishes the seismic safety plan Canarias makes housing and infrastructure have endured so far without problem.

"I prefer three minutes of uncertainty in the tunnel 40 on the road," says Lopez. In fact, an architect consulted by the country indicate that the only risk is in the tunnel is falling "some grit" of the material used to seal the concrete structures that make up the duct.

Padrón, makeshift community leader, argues that there is direct support to businesses of La Frontera. He points out exemptions in the payment of local taxes and Social Security payments. "It is better to join the State than to have to make contributions," he says. It has also proposed that flights and boat trips to El Hierro are funded to allow what it calls "solidarity trips" of people willing to help visit the island for use of restaurants and shopping . "It might cost more than the ticket from Tenerife to El Hierro than the Santa Cruz peninsula," he says.

Although using different language, his complaints match those of the mayor of La Frontera, David Cabrera, who believes that the aid package announced by the Government canary is too focused on relief to populations south of the island and has neglected others. .

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El Hierro registered 14 earthquakes, 3.2M felt by the population

DIARIOELHIERRO.ES, writing / Europa Press, Valverde (11.14.2011. 8:52 pm)

The National Geographic Institute (IGN) has registered on the island of El Hierro during the night a total of 14 earthquakes of between 1.7 and 3.2 magnitude on the Richter scale.

The largest of the earthquakes recorded at 07.28 hours, had a magnitude of 3.2 degrees and was felt by the population. This earthquake occurred northwest of the town of La Frontera. This event was located at sea 20 kilometers deep.

The rest of recorded earthquakes were mainly west of Frontera, between 16 and 21 kilometers deep. The last of these, 2.0 degrees, occurred at 09:49 hours at about 19 km depth and epicenter in the sea.

Also, this Sunday is registered in the Isle of Meridian a total of 15 earthquakes of between 1.5 and 3.1 degrees. Of these, two came to be felt by the population and is located northwest of Frontera. The first, of 2.7 magnitude and epicenter at sea, was recorded at 05.39 hours about 23 miles deep, the second 3.1, occurred at 11.51 hours and 23 kilometers deep.

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The stain of the volcano intensifies in La Restinga, and so does the appearance of dead fish. / FRAN Pallera

70% of the Coast cannot be fished

VICENTE PÉREZ (Special Envoy) | El Pinar

70% of the coast of El Hierro is affected by gas and mineral stain left by the volcano during the month which has already been spewing lava and gases to the seafloor. Only 30% is safe from this pollution, and of that portion where in theory there are still fish catches that would be possible.

The data was provided by this Sunday the Patron of the fishermen of La Restinga, Fernando Gutierrez, who advanced the objective of this group is to prohibit fishing in the entire island, including that one third of the coast, to ensure that the faster recovery.

To do this, these sailors have started the regional deputy chairman and PP, José Manuel Soria, the commitment to bring in the regional parliament's request for a biological strike around the perimeter of El Hierro, which will last at least six months but could exceed the year in the light of developments still ongoing volcanic phenomena and the severity and extent of the damage, something to be determined by biologists. Soria met on Friday in El Pinar with a hundred people from La Restinga, also by the PP regional deputy Manuel Fernandez.

The National Oceanographic Institute (IGN) has found that the volcano has created a suboxic zone (very low values ​​of dissolved oxygen concentration) between 65 and 90 feet deep. This layer is preventing fish access to shallow depths to feed, where they then die from lack of oxygen, not water toxicity.

Gutierrez said the bleak landscape left by the volcano on marine life, "for the green spot has reached Frontera, beaches and of course the sea of ​​calm, but still do not know to what extent each area is affected, although it is clear is that you can not fish in all the extension ".
The representative of 40 fishermen stressed that "all fish are affected".

Closely linked to Venezuela, said Gutierrez has been in contact with the Consulate of the country, as in El Hierro lies more than a thousand Venezuelans, in the event that some were affected by the volcano and require government financial support from Hugo Chavez.

The mariner of El Pinar, who is also spokesman of the management committee created by the residents of La Restinga, makes clear that their struggle is not focused only on behalf of the fishermen but also by all affected economic sectors. "At present the only direct financial support coming soon is the Canarian Government, and as the central government we will wait a few days but if it does not approve new aid, we do not rule protest action," said Gutierrez. In his view, aid approved by the State Administration Council of Ministers "are an insult to those affected, since no use to an employer take a credit if you have no billing ICO for the consequences of the eruption."

However, the Politeness is not courageous, and thanked the staff of the Civil Guard and the Army has sent thanks to the state executive to the island "as well as the work of the City of El Pinar and the Council of El Hierro.

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Strongest so far (3.2 at 07:28):

For the day:

Frequencies spectrogram, the vertical streaks indicate “events” (tremors/EQs) whereas the horizontal ones reflect volcanic/magmatic activity:

From Wikipedia: A Harmonic tremor is a sustained release of seismic and/or infrasonic energy typically associated with the underground movement of magma and/or venting of volcanic gases from magma. Being a long-duration continuous signal from a temporally extended source, a volcanic tremor contrasts distinctly with transient sources of seismic radiation, such as tremors that are typically associated with earthquake and explosion.

How it's looking like now from Las Puntas de La Frontera:

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For the last 10 days, following the count of EQs as shown by the orange bars (≥ 2.0), it now shows a definite increase in seismic activity:

New cumulative graph starting October 10, 2011. The continuously changing scales keeps compressing the earlier graphs to the bottom and to the left!

Location of the EQs for the last 10 days:

Refresh your browser page to get the latest numbers and positions.

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Ramon Margalef has been busy yesterday and today conducting a detailed survey of the southern ridge:

... and so has been bubbly Polly as seen from the new La Restinga webcams:

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State of the plume as of November 13:

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PEVOLCA The Steering Committee during the hearing. | DA

DIARIODEAVISOS.COM | Valverde

The direction of the Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk (PEVOLCA) has authorized the return home of displaced residents of La Restinga , starting today, will go back to sleep in their homes, however, children continue to receive classes in El Pinar, according to the Director General of Security and Emergency of the Canary Islands, Juan Manuel Santana.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A1-vIIv5Xms

As preventive measureswill stay in that town two buses of the Emergency Military Unit (UME) if necessary for use in a re-evacuation, and the measuring station air quality, which will continue its ongoing analysis. Also, the General Police Corps Canaria (CGPC) and the Civil Guard will conduct a continuous surveillance of the area.

In the same area will maintain the ban on access to the beaches of Puerto Naos and Tacorón and continue in force maritime exclusion zone.

Regarding roads closed to traffic, the Director General of Security and Emergency announced the full opening of the HI-55 road from Las Puntas, from the junction of four roads to the Well of the vote, and the partial opening of 7: 30 to 18:30, of the HI-5 between the roundabout and crossing El Mocanal Las Puntas, section in which the tunnel is located in Los Roquille, whose lane right (Valverde) will remain closed to traffic . The same partial opening hours will have the HI-500, which connects the lighthouse of Orchilla and el Pozo de la Health and HI-50, between Sabinosa and Cruce de la Tabla (junction with SR-553). Instead, continue closed Ecomuseum, the Lagartario and the bottom of El Pozo de las Calcosas.

As residents evacuated in Frontera, Juan Manuel Santana announced authorizing the return home of the inhabitants of the area Los Polvillos but not residents of Las Puntas, which will continue evicted because of the risk of landslides in the area at the level existing seismicity.

Evolution of the eruptive process

Regarding the evolution of the eruptive process, Carmen Lopez, a spokesman of the Scientific Committee said PEVOLCA still ruled out "a new magmatic intrusion in the north," yet said if it were to occur, both on land and at sea, "would have to find other previous parameters as changes in the pattern of seismicity or deformation ", issues that have not yet been produced.

While Carmen Lopez stated that "it is unlikely an imminent eruption," warned that if they can continue producing a level similar to the current seismicity, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 or higher, but always at a depth between 20-23 miles.

As for the eruptive process of southern La Restinga, the Scientific Committee spokesman said that its duration can last days or weeks and there has been an eruptive focus approach to land.

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I was trying to find some sites on a "what if " for a tsunami ,im very very near the east coast of Canada , if the Canaries do Erupt and tsunamis ensues , how big and how .... .... .....

I am 1200 ft elev. apporx 1000km inland if this thing happens like ive watched a few times on discovery

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Since July, IGN has officially logged 11,566 tremors at El Hierro... and counting since seismic activity is ongoing!

Meanwhile, this thread just went by 55,000 viewings....

Thank you for your support and for dropping by!

thank you.......

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The appeal of "Restingolitas"
From: antena3canarias | November 14, 2011 |
They are light and rough to the touch and have become the main attraction of meeting dedicated to the science of La Orotava

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OrgBVcK4LQc

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Seismic activity in northern and southern volcanic
From: antena3canarias | November 14, 2011 |

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WiMl5viA07Y

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Hey Eric !!!

,.... I am trying to find a soft wall to beat my head against...
Sorry to have to enlighten you with this.... BUT THE TSUNAMI HAS BEEN CANCELLED ...

Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused, but it is outside of my control, apparently God said that this is a very beautiful world, and human kind should stop being so paranoid and just 'get on with it'

Have a lovely day...

Please make a cup of tea and enjoy... http://www.lapalma-tsunami.com/index.html

Posted by eric charles (here)
I was trying to find some sites on a "what if " for a tsunami ,im very very near the east coast of Canada , if the Canaries do Erupt and tsunamis ensues , how big and how .... .... .....

I am 1200 ft elev. apporx 1000km inland if this thing happens like ive watched a few times on discovery

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Posted by eric charles (here)
I was trying to find some sites on a "what if " for a tsunami ,im very very near the east coast of Canada , if the Canaries do Erupt and tsunamis ensues , how big and how .... .... .....

I am 1200 ft elev. apporx 1000km inland if this thing happens like ive watched a few times on discovery

Hi Eric!

Please, see post # 739!

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New expulsion of pyroclastics and other volcanic material in La Restinga
Courtesy of rtve.es

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3055z0YGiAY

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The Pevolca believes it could evacuate Frontera in 4 hours

LAOPINION.ES. Four Hours. This is the time estimated by the Emergency Plan Volcanic Islands (Pevolca) to evacuate the town of Frontera, in the north of the island, if, as scientists expect an eruption occurred in El Golfo. That, in the worst case scenario of the eruptive process that exists in El Hierro, ie, the magma breaks through the ground somewhere north. Although this is a remote possibility at this time as the volcano evolves, the emergency services have thoroughly studied the situation and to act in case of extreme emergency, with the possibility, even, that people have to be evacuated by sea.

While in the town of Frontera is counted more than four thousand inhabitants, it is estimated that currently reside in El Golfo about 3,500 citizens. It is precisely in the municipality is held these days count of the people who exist today, to have everything under control in the event of having to cope with and plan for such an extreme evacuation. However, the most likely scenario as it stands the northern eruptive phenomenon today is that the eruption occurs in the sea in El Golfo area where little is offshore reaches heights of over a thousand meters in depth. In fact, if the eruption occurs in the area, scientists have claimed that it is even possible that there will be no visible signs to the population, as in the south, at La Restinga, where a large patch of sulfur and the appearance of a large amount of magmatic material is evidence that an eruption is in progress.

If the worst case scenario occurs, ie the process manages to open one mouth of a volcanic eruption on earth in the area of El Golfo the Pevolca has also studied all scenarios. Bearing in mind that if the eruption is on the ground there would be no explosion of magma, it has already established a security perimeter around the area 500 meters in which eruptive mouth opens, which could be extended to a mile if necessary.

The area in which, within the limited possibilities for eruption occurs on land, it is believed that the process may evolvein the town of Los Llanillos. The soccer field in the Frontera meeting point Pevolca planned for the emergency, and if it is produced precisely by the Llanillos, the population of that area (it would be necessary to evacuate the entire municipality of Frontera) could be out through the tunnel of the Roquille, because if you open a mouth, eruptive earthquakes cease almost entirely, as has happened in the south.

The second option would be to escape through the mountain road, much more complicated and that there would be depending on place where the the eruption eminates.. And in the worst possible scenario, that the eruption is so large that affects a major portion of Frontera, there is even a plan to evacuate by sea to the citizens, with the intervention of the Spanish Armada. Everything is planned in El Hierro

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Here are the monthly run down, in order of popularity by country, for the viewing account for Pollys videos that are viewed through Project Avalon.

Spain
Poland
Aruba
Russia
Germany
Venezuela
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Ukraine

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Smoke and pyroclastics, on Monday,

Courtesy Canarias7

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Here is Reuters take on Polly, her eruption and her gas emissions..

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1AAD4K8zwi0