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| Big ' jacuzzi' with a noticable stain in the ocean. Image from ign.es |
Over the past few months I've regularly been checking the submarine volcano eruption just south of the island of El Hierro. Since September 2011, the ocean floor before the smallest of the Canarien Islands has been rumbling and trembling. See this video for some action! Volcanic eruptions are always spectaculair, but this is a special case as it is a submarine volcano, with its vent aproximatly 100 metres under the surface and close to land. Due to the shallowness and location of the volcano we could very well witness the birth of a new island, live.
Although the eruption has been going on for queit some time now, and is currently not as active as during October and November, there're still some interesting things going on. The website Earthquake Report, check the site here, is still maintaining an excllent day to day report about the devolpment of the El Hierro volcano. As there're still a lot of eartquakes occuring around the volcano, the eruption could easily grow in strength again.
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