Volcanic activity in Canary Islands 2021

[jand]

Ash has already reached La Gomera and Tenerife.


LA PALMA - 2021-09-24 15:18 utc
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20210924/1518Z
VAAC: TOULOUSE
VOLCANO: LA PALMA 383010
PSN: N2834 W01749
AREA: CANARY ISLANDS
SUMMIT ELEV: 2426M
ADVISORY NR: 2021/24
INFO SOURCE: SAT IMAGERY, VONA, PILOT REPORTS
AVIATION COLOUR CODE: RED
ERUPTION DETAILS:ERUPTION AT 20210919/1410Z WITH ASH EMISSION ONGOING
OBS VA DTG: 24/1500Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL100 N2845 W01756 - N2824 W01618 - N2754 W01624 - N2757 W01715 - N2827 W01803 - N2845 W01756 MOV SE 10KT FL100/170 N2845 W01754 - N2836 W01539 - N2745 W01554 - N2745 W01711 - N2757 W01754 - N2845 W01754 MOV E 15KT
FCST VA CLD +6 HR: 24/2100Z SFC/FL100 N2845 W01756 - N2836 W01600 - N2751 W01609 - N2751 W01706 - N2821 W01803 - N2845 W01756 FL100/170 N2845 W01754 - N2836 W01518 - N2742 W01518 - N2742 W01703 - N2757 W01751 - N2845 W01754
FCST VA CLD +12 HR: 25/0300Z SFC/FL100 N2845 W01756 - N2833 W01554 - N2751 W01600 - N2751 W01706 - N2821 W01803 - N2845 W01756 FL100/170 N2845 W01754 - N2839 W01512 - N2736 W01515 - N2742 W01703 - N2757 W01751 - N2845 W01754
FCST VA CLD +18 HR: 25/0900Z SFC/FL100 N2845 W01756 - N2833 W01554 - N2751 W01600 - N2751 W01706 - N2821 W01803 - N2845 W01756 FL100/170 N2845 W01754 - N2839 W01512 - N2736 W01515 - N2742 W01703 - N2757 W01751 - N2845 W01754
RMK: PILOTS REPORTED VA NEAR TENERIFE AND OVER LA GOMERA. DUE TO CLOUD MASK, IT IS DIFFICULT TO ESTIMATE THE HEIGHT OF THE PLUME. A SO2 CLOUD IS STILL DRIFTING EASTWARD.
NXT ADVISORY: NO LATER THAN 20210924/2100Z=

[jand]

On the live feed two new lava flows.


https://youtu.be/sFEZACRRJBk

[IHX]

Hi to all, just new on board -  apology for any mistakes

These links might be interesting. Seen from space:

https://twitter.com/CopernicusEMS/status...78275?s=20
https://twitter.com/CopernicusEMS

and

https://www.space.com/la-palma-volcano-e...aut-images

[jand]

Thank you Volcano for the link any additional info is welcomed.

[jand]

TWO EasyJet FLIGHTS FROM UK TO TENERIFE DELAYED OVERNIGHT DUE TO ASH CLOUD
2021/09/24 19:29:44 Written by Canarian Weekly Business
UK airline EasyJet have issued a press release informing that flights due today from Manchester and London Gatwick to Tenerife, have been delayed due to volcanic ash in Tenerife. It says: “We're sorry that your flight has been delayed overnight. This is due to volcanic ash in Tenerife, which means your aircraft is below safe operating limits.”

The flights have been rescheduled for tomorrow morning and they have informed passengers that: “We have been advised by Tenerife airport that any COVID Test and forms valid for today’s flight will be accepted for tomorrows rescheduled flight.”

“The disruption to your flight is outside of our control and is considered to be an extraordinary circumstance and we thank you for your patience.” Passengers that have already travelled to the airports have been offered a free hotel room for the night until the flights depart tomorrow morning.

The ash in Tenerife is due to a change in the wind direction earlier today, but other flights from the UK, although delayed, are still scheduled to land this evening as according to the aviation authorities it depends on the type of plane.


https://www.canarianweekly.com/posts/two...L874jFGXjc

[jand]

The La Palma volcano has added two new eruptive mouths in the last hours, and not one as was initially reported, which dump fluid lava that advances down the slope, have reported the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcán) and the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME).

The IGME specifies that the lava rivers have traveled about a kilometer down the slope before expanding and thickening the lobe and slow down at around 60-80 meters per hour.

The IGME aerial work service reports that due to the increase in explosiveness and intensity of pyroplastic rain associated with the opening of these two new mouths, they have had to move to the exclusion zone in the upper part of Tacande.

The 112 has released a video with images captured in the IGME and Canary Islands Government reconnaissance flights, in which it is appreciated how the lava descends at high speed, as well as another video of Involcán with thermal images of the lava from the two new mouths.

The increase in the explosiveness of the volcano and the opening of new mouths led the authorities to evict this Friday the residents of the centers of Tajuya, Tacande de Abajo and the previously non-evacuated part of Tacande de Arriba.

TOPICSGovernment of the Canary Islands , Involcan , La Palma , Volcanic eruptions , Volcanoes


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[jand]

The Scientific Committee feared that the cone of the La Palma volcano would crumble
Morcuende said that "just" when they had "issued the confinement, the peak suffered a huge rise", which put those responsible for Pevolca "in a situation of important alert"

AGENCIES09/24/2021 UPDATED 21:11

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The Scientific Committee feared that the cone of the La Palma volcano would crumble. EP
The last evacuees this Friday on the island of La Palma, from the neighborhoods of Tajuya and Tacande de Abajo and Tacande de Arriba , reached 160 people, most of whom have found refuge with families or friends.

The last evacuees this Friday on the island of La Palma, from the neighborhoods of Tajuya and Tacande de Abajo and Tacande de Arriba , reached 160 people, most of whom have found refuge with families or friends.

With them, the total number of residents evacuated on the island throughout the eruption episode that started this past Sunday now exceeds 6,200 people.


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This has been explained by the technical director of the Volcanic Emergency Plan of the Canary Islands (Pevolca), Miguel Ángel Morcuende , who has detailed that 150 of the 160 people have left their houses by their own means and another 10 with various disabilities have been evacuated in ambulances .

Of the 160 evacuees, only 12 of them have been transferred to the Princess hotel where others have already been relocated, while the 10 with various disabilities have gone to the El Fuerte military complex .

On behalf of the National Geographic Institute (IGN), Maria José Blanco intervened, who related the chronology that led Pevolca to issue a confinement order in these areas to end the evacuation.

He explained that there was an "increase in the intensity of the volcano" that quickly grew again. He added that there are 3 emission centers, two new ones separated by a small distance , which emit a lava "very similar, very fluid, which runs above the previously emitted lava flows."

"HUGE RISE" OF THE VOLCANO'S INTENSITY
Morcuende said that "just" when they had "issued confinement, the peak suffered a huge rise", which put those responsible for Pevolca "in an important alert situation", which made the confinement "only reasonable".

"We have to adapt to this dynamic phenomenon thinking about the safety of people and we have to continue to be attentive to the warnings because that will allow us to provide the best solutions," he concluded.


https://diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/202...ign=578297

[jand]

Drone footage;


https://youtu.be/uYHKL_ewj6g

[jand]

24/09/2021-22:30 h Canaria. - LA PALMA ISLAND ERUPTION.- VIDEO INFRAROJO OF NEW COLADES AND VOLCANIC ASHES NOTICE OF TOLOUSE VAAC FOR CANARIES.- The opening of these new mouths, seems to have calmed the volcano pressure a bit, what does not mean is the solution, has generated a decline in the tremor, which is currently maintained in moderate to high values. Strombolian activity continues, with explosions, although not as strong as this afternoon and even a 2.2 Earthquake has been located in the eruption area and very superficial.

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As a detail of the mouth that has opened, the new lava has already traveled 1 km above the lavas that had already been and on its way out to make it very hot and very fluid drags or erodes the material that is in the terrain, causing washing to dig a canal in the upper area.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1441489860121047044

LIVE VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFEZACRRJBk

And now that?.. because the volcano will follow its own, because it cannot be controlled, with an eruption that would still last a week or two, but that you can go to 3 months and that in the window more next we hope you lose explosiveness, but time brings us back to reality and does the opposite, has gone to more explosiveness with the maximum this afternoon.

The origin of that explosiveness must be sought possibly in the groundwater that is interacting in depth with that magma so hot to more than 1100°C that causes it to be vaporized and to change the properties of this magmatic fluid, making it more viscous and richer in gas, so that more water, more explosive.

It's a normal thing, it happens in Hawaii, Iceland and many other volcanic sites on the planet, and other volcanic islands tell us that this is very common, so it's not clear that we continue in increasing massive explosive stages with days. Encouragement and please remember that when it ends, we have to recover our lives and above all, return to having illusion and happiness, that the volcano does not take the most valuable, our lives, and so far has not done it fortunately.

Therefore I ask you to listen to the advisories from the authorities and not enter the exclusion zones, as air pyroclasts can hit them in the head, changes to the volcano may cause the opening of new mouths that produce fast lavas such as this afternoon or even slides of the unstable cone that could cause our death by entering where we should not enter, a volcano is not a joke, it's fascinating but it's very dangerous and has no compassion.

And very important to everyone, across the Canary Islands, the warning of ashes for the entire archipelago,... to arrive, will reach the peninsula within days. (Enrique)

PHOTO SOURCE:
https://twitter.com/.../status/144141272...53/photo/1

[jand]

Since Midnight today Tremor already has gone back up to Max.