October 12th 14:30 event at El Hierro

Five geologist & scientists: @rschott @nchazarra @pabloj_gonzalez @Lumifg & @teideano from America and Spain talking about El Hierro the very same day the second? event toke place. Network thinking.

  1. 48 hrs & the volcanic tremor @ El Hierro is still going strong: t.co/g3jVhlY9 That's a lot of magma on the move. When will it emerge?
  2. @Lumifg @rschott The situation seems very static, but it has been recorded a 2.6 earthquake one hour ago
  3. @nchazarra @Lumifg It seems remarkable that none of the quakes recorded in the last two days are shallower than 10km: t.co/0l9Jvj5h
  4. @nchazarra @rschott perhaps the volcanic tremor is covering up the detection of any other shallower quake.
  5. @Lumifg @rschott Yes, that is a possible scenario, and that makes more important the decision of using a good seismic array to locate quakes
  6. Abrupt decrease of tremor amplitude in El Hierro. I mean really abrupt!! t.co/mkjbU24Z
  7. Given that prior to reduction, an increase in higher frequencies occurred. Explosive events couldn't discarded. t.co/mkjbU24Z
  8. @pabloj_gonzalez Yeah, it's really a very abrupt change. Those higher frequencies could be from a great pressure release!
  9. .@pabloj_gonzalez I agree. It looks like something changed rather dramatically. What's the word on the ground @teideano?
  10. @rschott @teideano We hope our man on ground. Could inform us. It could be a key point in the evolution of the volcanic phenomena.
  11. @nchazarra I think you may have hit the nail on the head. Not my area of expertise, but I like your explanation of abrupt frequency change.
  12. @rschott Now it seems that after the pressure release, has been a increase again on the tremor, but looks quite steady...
  13. @nchazarra @rschott @pabloj_gonzalez I almost miss the gig. These changes are out of my league, not an expert.
  14. @Lumifg @rschott @pabloj_gonzalez We've just got back to low frequency and amplitude tremor. Let's keep watching the seismogram
  15. @Lumifg @nchazarra @rschott Too few data in the Fast Fourier Transform data window, so it's output the PSD freaks out.
  16. @Lumifg @rschott @pabloj_gonzalez Some data is yet to come, let's wait for the next release of seismic and frequencies
  17. @rschott Yes, I agree. @teideano also commented 2 days ago about the lack of shallow events.
  18. @pabloj_gonzalez @Lumifg @rschott There is a total lack of shallow eartquakes,maybe we are only watching the filling and ascent of a chamber
  19. @nchazarra @Lumifg @rschott Young volcanic islands (La Palma, Fogo, El Hierro) lack of shallow magma chamber (many papers discussed it)
  20. @pabloj_gonzalez @Lumifg @rschott If we plot the points of the seismic swarm, it depicts something like a chamber between 9 and 18 km deep
  21. @pabloj_gonzalez Maybe no shallow magma chamber but magma still has to break conduit to the surface to erupt-no evidence it's done that yet.
  22. @nchazarra @pabloj_gonzalez @rschott therefore no shallow chamber and the tremor started when the magma moved upwards massively. Likely?
  23. @Lumifg @pabloj_gonzalez @rschott Yeah, that's likely, and now the pressure is increasing again due to a lack of conduit
  24. @nchazarra @pabloj_gonzalez @rschott almost an hour and the tremor signal hasn't recovered its amplitude t.co/TqPdzDju

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