A Dormant Spanish volcano threatens to awakenforcing experts to issue an urgent warning to the entire population. Spain is a volcanic zone, whether we like it or not we are exposed to a series of events that can change everything. We are faced with events that are difficult to predict, but which end up being an increasingly visible possibility. Especially considering the volcanic activity we’ve been experiencing lately.
In recent years, Spain has seen some of its main volcanoes threaten to become active again. Science has progressed a lot, but it is not easy to easily predict volcanoes. In fact, nothing is known about them, only the present and the past can be measured, the future seems completely uncertain. What we are observing in recent days is an important change which could end up marking a before and an after. For now, experts have decided to issue a major alert over an inactive volcano that is showing signs of change; These are the regions of Spain that are in danger.
Dormant Spanish volcano threatens to awaken
THE harsh threat of this volcano who seems to wake up at times. Spain, and in particular the Canary Islands, is a volcanic area that we may not have taken into account until now. The fact that these islands are mostly the result of these volcanoes which made this region essential in the past can change everything.
Without a doubt, we are facing a natural element that, as we have seen in the past, can have more than one impact. We have the most recent case with the La Palma volcano, which devastated the region. It awoke from its inactivity and devastated the houses and agricultural areas around it.
This reawakening Spanish volcano may cause a similar or greater impact on this element. Science is waiting for what can happen in this region of the country, which is the one with the greatest activity. Whether we like it or not, we are facing a situation that could turn out to be much worse than expected.
Experts had to issue an alert in response to a series of movements that they have seen happening over the past few days and whose impact could be much greater than expected.
This is the urgent warning from experts
As the National Geological Institute warns, there is an area of Spain that is threatened by volcano activity that could turn out to be much worse than expected. The lack of means or situations to predict the effects of this volcano could be what makes a significant difference.
These experts explain to us: “Between Tenerife and Gran Canaria, there are large extensions of deposits of mobilized “debris” which cover part of the ocean floor. Among the various prehistoric landslides described on the south coast of the island of Tenerife, that of Güimar (2,600 km2) stands out, which occurred around 800,000 years ago. The depression that remained on the slope has a width of between 9 and 12 km and large lateral scarps (up to 300 m above sea level) and a head, and inside are the landslide deposits that do not have not reached the sea interspersed with new historical eruptions. and subhistorical. Its head coincides with the Dorsal Cordillera, the main rift zone of the island, with a NE direction and maximum heights of 1,700 to 2,200 m.
The “debris avalanche” fan on the ocean floor on the coast of Tenerife originates from this landslide and has a volume of material >120 km3. For its part, the west coast of the island of Gran Canaria also suffered several gravitational landslides on the high cliffs of the Miocene basalt edifice, on either side of the Aldea de San Nicolás ravine. In the southern sector (Güi-Güi and Tasarte and Tasartico ravines), large volumes of mainly basaltic rocks have collapsed to the sea floor, forming “debris” cones which do not appear to overlap that of Güimar. For their part, in the northern sector, the largest cliffs of the island, such as Anden Verde and Risco de Faneque, have also suffered significant landslides, leaving a wide range of “debris” that overlaps those of Güimar. The Enmedio fault is a zone of permanent seismicity and volcanic activity (but not currently) which is not episodic. According to all the earthquakes that occurred in the fault sector, they are of tectonic origin. The length of the main fault is estimated at around 35 km and it is located very close to the Enmedio volcano. Recorded earthquakes generally have their hypocenter between 25 and 35 km depth, although some have been recorded at average depths of up to 70 km. The volcano de Enmedio is an underwater volcano which is located 25.47 km from the Abona lighthouse (Tenerife coast) and 36.2 km from the village of San Nicolás (Gran Canaria)”.
