If enough magma did intrude into CV volcano, it could make part of it slide off into the sea-but the resulting tsunami would be smaller.” ( here )Īlso dismissing the allegations, Luis González de Vallejo, director of the Geological Risks Area of the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN), stated on Sept. There's no evidence that a flank collapse of that size could currently occur. “That 2001 represented a very unlikely worst-case scenario. The paper, he explained, “suggested a catastrophic collapse of the CV volcano’s flank could drop up to 500 cubic km of rock into the sea” which would create a tsunami. 19 eruption, Robyn George Andrews, volcanologist, and science writer, took to Twitter to address such a theory. Tsunami deposits related to flank collapse in oceanic volcanoes: The Agaete Valley evidence, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Such a scenario, however, has been considered extremely unlikely by experts and dismissed at least since 2013 ( here, here, here, here ).įollowing the Sept.
“The ongoing volcanic activity in the Canary Islands is not posing a tsunami risk for the United States or Canada, and the likelihood of it posing a future threat is remote,” Susan Buchanan, Director of Public Affairs of the National Weather Service told Reuters via email on Sept. However, claims spread on social media about the explosion potentially causing a tsunami in the United States are unsubstantiated. World Spanish islands erupting volcano could remain a threat for months Updated on: Septem/ 6:25 PM / AP El Paso, Canary Islands The volcanic eruption on a Spanish. 19, lava has been flowing down the Cumbre Vieja volcano's western flank toward the sea, destroying almost 600 houses and banana plantations in La Palma, which neighbors Tenerife in the Canary Islands archipelago off the North African coast ( here ). The flank has a volume of 1.5 trillion metric tons and models suggest that if it were to collapse it would generate a tsunami 1000 m high that would be 50 m when it arrived in Europe and along the eastern coast of the US. 28 with a similar allegation has been shared over 13,500 times ( here ). “If you're anywhere in the light blue, you need to pack, watch the La Palma volcano that's erupting and be prepared to leave,” reads a Facebook post ( here).Īnother Facebook post from Sept. East Coast are baseless, officials and experts continue to say. Claims that the devastating volcano eruption in La Palma, in the Canary Islands, currently risks causing a “mega tsunami” that would hit the U.S.
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