VOLCANO NEWS -

CANARY ISLANDS EARTHQUAKE SWARM

 

A few years ago I read the thriller Volcano by Richard Doyle.  It was about the global havoc that would result from a mega volcano eruption at El Hierro in the Canaries.  It would provoke a tsunami big enough to seriously flood the American east coast.   "The wave to end all waves", said the book.

There has been a sharp increase in earthquakes in the Canaries lately, frequent enough to be characterized as a "swarm".  Magma is on the move under the island.

Read more here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/earthquakes-inflation-suggest-new-magma-intruding-under-el-hierro/

Last year underground volcanic activity was so strong that it literally lifted the island -
http://digitaljournal.com/article/327552

Website monitoring El Hierro - http://earthquake-report.com/2011/09/25/el-hierro-canary-islands-spain-volcanic-risk-alert-increased-to-yellow/