CANARY ISLANDS THERA AFTER IT BLEW UP
Dee Finney's blog
start date July 20, 2011
Today's date: October 2, 2011
updated 3-23-13
page 51
LATEST NEWS FIRST:
March 22, 2013 volcano activity
http://earthquake-report.com/2013/03/22/volcano-activity-of-march-22-2013/
Well, there are volcanoes who attract attention by unusual behavior,…and then there are volcanoes which demand attention by their unusual behavior! Telica volcano (Nicaragua) (station TELN) and El Hierro (Canary Islands) (station CHIE) are both demanding our attention at this time!
At Telica volcano, hundreds of earthquakes, with magnitudes as high as M2.1, have shook the volcano for the past week. Thus far, Nicaraguan authorities have not described other indicators of magmatic activity (deformation, increased fumarolic activity) beneath the volcano.
At El Hierro, similar activity but with event magnitudes as high as M3.8 (yesterday) cluster around 15 km depth beneath the island. Deformation (uplift) as measured by GPS instrumentation ranges from 10 to 35 mm since renewed unrest began some three days ago. The activity currently is centered just off the western shoreline of El Hierro. Follow our in-depth reporting here.
TOPIC: CANARY ISLAND VOLCANO VS THERA
I just woke up from a very strange dream. I had been meditating
earlier this morning (It is now 8 a.m.) I was asking my spirit guides to
give me some information about the Canary Islands and the volcano there. I
wasn't getting any information at all.
All of a sudden the telephone rang and a man's voice yelled into his
phone, "The match is set!" I said," What? Who is this?"
He said, "Is this Sylvia?" I said, "No! " and we both said, "Sorry!" and
hung up.
I immediately fell asleep and went into a dream where I was looking at a large screen
monitor, IMing with a couple of people about the Canary Islands volcano.
The woman on line was named Betty, who seemed very knowledgeable about the
coming event which is expected soon, considering there have been over 8,000
quakes there in recent weeks.
For some reason I decided to call Betty on the phone and when I did, I
identified myself as Dee Finney.
She said, "Bill Finney?" and I responded, "No! Dee Finney.
She said, "I know Bill Finney who gets seizures and he hasn't had any
recently"
While she was talking, I was looking out my front window at the beach. I was thinking it was Lake Michigan, but while she talked, I saw a Navy airplane fly past the window towards the Ocean (I called it) and I was so shocked, I kept calling it the ocean.
The plane was dark green with a star on the side and as I watched, a group of
military men, I was assuming were pilots or men who worked on airplanes.
They gathered on the beach, one of two were kneeling on one knee, the others
standing there, nonchalantly watching the plane taxi on the water like there was
no worries in the world for a plane to be on the water rather than on land.
I then woke up, surprised to find I wasn't actually where I had just been.
NOTE FROM DEE:
Very early this morning, when I went to the bathroom, it came to me that I've had a number of dreams about canaries and it dawned on me that the dreams about canaries might be related to the canary islands and the volcano.
Here is the most recent one:
8-10-11 - DREAM - I lived and worked in buildings across the street
from each other. I wasn't particularly fond of going to work because all I
did was paperwork. When I was at work, I made sure I had my keys
with me at all times, which I double checked when I went out the door.
At home, across the street, there were a lot of issues going on.
I was getting dressed or rather undressed and my husband kept acting like he
had something in his eyes and couldn't see that my blouse was barely buttoned in
front and he had some guy messing with his eyes, so I went into the closet and
put a blue pullover shirt over my white open shirt to make sure I was covered
for the public's eyes.
In one of the rooms of our apartment, I looked at the bird cage and saw that
the canaries didn't have enough seed to eat, and told my husband to feed the
birds, but he was too busy, so I went over to the cage and saw that a huge black
bird was in the canary cage eating the canary seed.
I told my husband to feed the vulture large seed, but I saw that the vulture
had a lot of big seed laying on the bottom of the cage, but it preferred the
canary seed.
I personally liked pumpkin seed that was bright orange inside, but my husband
didn't like that kind so wouldn't give it to the vulture either.
The cage door was open and I we surprised that none of the birds tried to leave the cage, but they didn't, there was plenty of seed in the cage to keep them all happy.
*******
When I searched my own website earlier today, I found 10 web pages of dreams
about canaries, as well as other noisy birds like parakeets and finches along
with canaries. I never did figure out the meaning of those dreams.
But I also found a page where I wrote about the Canary Islands themselves.
This
next seism in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean will probably be contagious, and
will affect the whole of the dorsal, in particular the zone of the Azores. But
this seismic activity could also shake the zone of the Canaries, that which
researchers of Benfield Hazard Research Center studied carefully. It could cause
a very large wave, due to the collapse of a whole side of the Mt. La Palma . The
height of the wave created depends on many parameters. It could, in the
worst case scenario, reach 600 meters when arriving on the shores.
One
clearly sees by the figures above that the giant tsunami would reach the coasts
of the American continent in six hours. But in the case of an underwater
volcanic eruption, this time is reduced to approximately three to four hours.
In my next article I will focus on what it is advisable to do to protect
oneself according to the zones and countries.
Do not miss it on the site www.savelivesinmay.com , your life, and that of your family or friends, is concerned.
In 1995, Comet
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 did something unexpected: it fell apart.
For no apparent reason,
the comet's nucleus split into at least three "mini-comets"
flying single file through space. Astronomers watched with interest, but the
view was blurry even through large telescopes. The comet was a hundred and fifty
million miles away.
We're about to get a
much closer look. In May 2006 the fragments are going to fly past Earth closer
than any comet has come in almost eighty years
Here are many more details about a possible tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Island volcano:
http://www.greatdreams.com/comets/comet-73p.htm
The page started out to be about the comet 73P,
but quickly changed to the danger to Americans - both north and south America
because of a possible landslide that could cause a huge tsunami.
Last week, a psychic by the name of June DeYoung said she saw the state of Maine completely covered by water.
If that is true, then all low lying lands would also be covered by a great deal of water as you will see on the maps on that comet page.
Naturally, I had to look up Bill Finney and see if his story rings true to the dream.
11-13-07
In the Mediterranean, the collision between the African and Eurasian Plates makes this region particularly prone to earthquakes and tsunamis. The large tsunamis to have struck this area in the past are relatively well known (see table below). Historically, it appears that the most destructive source of origin is that of the subduction zone located beneath the Hellenic Arc (Crete in 365 and Rhodes in 1303). The eastern Mediterranean is still considered the most dangerous zone.
The most important Mediterranean tsunamis
|
Date |
Place of origin |
Remarks |
|
ca. - 1650 |
Santorini |
Tsunami generated by the eruption of the Thera volcano, with a wave estimated at 40 m. |
|
365 |
Crete |
Tsunami generated by an earthquake with a magnitude of around 8,5, with a wave estimated at 10 m. |
|
373 |
Helike |
Tsunami generated by an earthquake with a magnitude of around 7, with a wave estimated at 10 m. |
|
1303 |
Rhodes |
Tsunami generated by an earthquake with a magnitude of around 8. |
|
1365 |
Algiers |
Tsunami generated by an earthquake with a magnitude of around 7. |
|
1755 |
Lisbon |
Tsunami generated by an earthquake with a magnitude of around 8, with a wave estimated at 4 m. |
|
1908 |
Messina |
Tsunami generated by an earthquake with a magnitude of around 7, with a wave of 8 m. |
The northeast Atlantic seems less prone to tsunamis. However, the tsunami of 1 November 1755 off the coast of Lisbon was one of the most destructive ever recorded anywhere in the world, with 5-metre-high waves striking the harbour and killing 20,000 persons.
The West Indies, characterized by significant volcanic and seismic activity, also run the risk of tsunamis. The West Indies are affected by tsunamis generated in either the Caribbean or the Atlantic (subduction earthquakes or teletsunamis).
According to a 2001 study by Narcisse Zahibo and Efim Pelinovsky, around 24 tsunamis have been reported in the Lesser Antilles over the past 400 years.5(*)
Finally, the Indian Ocean is not safe from tsunamis, either. While it is true that the area accounts for only 4% of recorded tsunamis, following the Sumatra catastrophe, the tsunami risk can no longer be ignored in this region. What's more, 3 large tsunamis have since been provoked by strong earthquakes on 28 March 2005, 17 July 2006 and 12 September 2007.
* 5 The Lesser Antilles are a string of small islands of volcanic or calcareous origin, which form an arc stretching from the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico to Grenada to the south.
In the case of the Canary Islands, they are talking about a huge twunami possibily hitting the east coast of America.
It's only fair to paste in my 373 Thera dream here.
WHY DO I DREAM THE WAY I DO?
10-30-11 - DREAM - I was sleeping in a chair in the livingroom and across the room, a handsome man named David was sleeping in another chair. (The name David means LOVE). (This particular David is a character on the TV show One Life to Live)
We had a visitor who sold water treatment machines. I think he might have been gay, but in any case he was always looking in the mirror to see how his hair looked because he wanted it to be perfect. Unfortunately, I had to help him pat down the tuft of hair he had at the back of his head because it stuck up in the air like Dagwood from the comics Dagwood and Blondie.
Because of this guy, I was trying to sell water treatment machines by mail to people around the country and they had to sign contracts for the mahcines so they too could sell the machines.
I had folders on my desk with paperwork to keep track of who I soldl mahcines to. One of the folders had a lot of paperwork in and there were two unsigned contracts to two guys who lived at 373 Thera St. in Chicago ,IL. I knew I was going to have to contact them again to see why they didn't sign the contract.
Then I looked in another folder and found that a woman who just happened to live at 373 Thera St. in Chicago had signed a contract and purchased a water treatment machine.
I thought to myself, "Aha! These guys had their roommate sign the contract instead of themselves. Problem solved."
I felt really good about that, but I still had David to deal with. So, I invited him to lay on the bed and see how he liked it.
However,, when he did, I could see a problem.
I stood on the end of the bed on the mattress, and on the sheet (there were no blankets) I saw needles with thread, pins, carpenter tacks, nails, and large carpenter type staples, all sticking up to prick and poke at anyone who laid on the bed.
I quickly started picking up all those sticking tools and apologized to David, and he kindly said, "That is why I never wanted to lay in your bed because that's the way you are - always working in bed."
So, thats the way I dream - about all kinds of prickly things and events.
I ijust noted that this dream was about water as well and its' treatment.
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I found an article on the web the last time I looked for 373 Thera that I found interesting.
NOTE FROM DEE: OBVIOUSLY AN EXPLODING VOLCANO DOES NOT STOP WARS
FROM HAPPENING! BUT BACK TO THERA:
IS THE ISLAND OF SANTORINI THE ISLAND OF ATLANTIS?
Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the
case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis,
first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, is about a real ancient civilization
destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many
subsequent civilizations placed its location in the middle of this ocean. But
historical data say this civilization could have been located in the Crete
Island or in a nearby island, belonging to the pre-Greek Minoan civilization.
The ancient tsunami could have been as powerful as the
2004 Asian one that killed 250,000 people and was connected to the huge eruption
of the volcano of the Santorini island, 70 km (43 mi) north of Crete, up to 10
times more powerful than the Krakatoa's eruption in 1883, volcanic stones even
reaching the Egyptian shore of the Sinai peninsula and it was heard at over
3,000 miles (4,800 km) away. The eruption destroyed everything on a distance of
150 km (92 mi).
The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than
3,000 years ago produced killer waves that raced across hundreds of miles of
the Eastern Mediterranean to inundate the area that is now Israel and
probably other coastal sites, a team of scientists has found The team, writing in the October issue of Geology, said the new
evidence suggested that giant tsunamis from the catastrophic eruption hit
“coastal sites across the Eastern Mediterranean littoral.” Tsunamis are giant
waves that can crash into shore, rearrange the seabed, inundate vast areas of
land and carry terrestrial material out to sea. The region at the time was home to rising civilizations in Crete, Cyprus,
Egypt, Phoenicia and Turkey. For decades, scholars have suggested that the giant eruption, just 70 miles
from Crete, might have brought about the mysterious collapse of Minoan civilization at the peak of its
glory. The remnants of Thera’s eruption today make up a circular archipelago of
volcanic Greek isles known as Santorini. Thera is thought to have erupted between 1630 and 1550 B.C., or the Late
Bronze Age, a time when many human cultures made tools and weapons of bronze.
Scholars say the tsunamis and dense clouds of volcanic ash from the eruption had
cultural repercussions that rippled across the Eastern Mediterranean for
decades, even centuries. The fall of Minoan civilization is usually dated to
around 1450 B.C. Geologists judge the eruption as far more violent than the 1883
eruption of the volcanic island of Krakatoa in Indonesia, which killed more than
36,000. The five tsunami researchers came from
Haifa University, in Israel;
Hunter College,
in New York City;
McMaster
University, in Canada; and the
University of Hawaii. The team did its excavations off Caesarea, Israel, a coastal town dating from
Roman and Byzantine days. The coastal region was only sparsely settled at the
time of the Thera eruption, with no identifiable city. The team sank a half-dozen tubes into the offshore seabed and pulled up
sediment cores for analysis. It looked for standard signs of tsunami upheaval,
including pumice (the volcanic rock that solidifies from frothy lava),
distinctive patterns of microfossils, cultural materials from human dwellings
and well-rounded beach pebbles that seldom appear in deeper waters. Writing in Geology, a journal published by the Geological
Society of America, the team reported finding evidence of three tsunamis — two
historically documented ones dating to A.D. 115 and 551, and one from the time
of the Thera eruption. The Thera tsunamis, the team wrote, left a signature layer in the seabed of
well-rounded pebbles, distinctive patterns of mollusks and characteristic
inclusions in rocky fragments all oriented in the same direction. The disturbed layer, up to 16 inches wide, came from a few feet below the
seabed in waters up to 65 feet deep. “These findings,” the team wrote, “constitute the most comprehensive evidence
to date that the tsunami event precipitated by the eruption of Santorini reached
the maximum extent of the Eastern Mediterranean.” The team added that, if the giant waves were big enough to reach Israel,
“then presumably other Late Bronze Age coastal sites across the Eastern
Mediterranean littoral will likely have been affected as well.” FROM:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03tsunami.html In the 1900s, British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans excavated and restored
the ruins at Knossos. Beautiful and delicate frescoes of bulls and dolphins
revealed a highly artistic civilisation and a people who apparently lived in
harmony with nature. Early 20th-century archaeologists knew of the devastating volcano and some
concluded it must have snuffed out the Minoan civilisation almost instantly. But
was it really as simple as that? Beautiful and delicate frescoes of bulls and dolphins revealed a
highly artistic civilisation and a people who apparently lived in
harmony with nature. For a start, they discovered little ash had fallen on Crete - as luck would
have it, the prevailing winds took the volcano's ash in the opposite direction.
Then archaeologists found clay tablets that proved the Minoan civilisation
survived for about 50 years after the eruption. So if the volcano killed the
civilisation, what accounted for this long gap? Vulcanologist Floyd McCoy, from the University of Hawaii, has been inspired
by volcanoes since his childhood on the volcanic islands of Hawaii. His passion
is the most romantic volcano of all time - Thera. He went on a journey of
discovery, gathering evidence from other scientists around the globe, to try
answer this question: was there a connection between the eruption of Thera and
the end of the Minoans on Crete? His journey started on the island of Thera. It was home to thousands and a
flourishing trading post for the Minoans until disaster struck. So massive was
the volcano it had an extraordinary effect, preserving forever the town of
Akrotiri. Mysteriously, no skeletons have ever been found on the island. Akrotiri's
chief archaeologist, Christos Doumas, believes the people of Akrotiri didn't
survive, and that the bodies are still to be uncovered, huddled at the harbour
where they were trapped by the eruption as they waited to escape. He believes
it's highly unlikely that scores of boats were waiting in the harbour to save
them. CANARY ISLANDS DANGERS Mega Tsunami and catastrophic effects IF CUMBRE VIEJA
VOLCANO Palma Canary Islands Collapse.. Large-scale mass wasting is a natural part of the evolution of volcanic
islands, where deformation and indications of flank instability, such as
large-scale faulting and seismic and aseismic slip are common. The Cumbre Vieja
volcano on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands) provides an ideal setting to
address fundamental questions about the structure, evolution and stability of
island volcanoes. Read full article
HERE Scientists discover how huge blocks of volcanic rock can slide off a land
mass into the ocean through heat and water pressure. There is a potential for a devastating Tsunami on the East Coast of the
United States, having its genesis in the Canary Islands. If this event were to
take place, it would devastate vast areas of the East Coast of America.
According to experts, it’s not a question of IF this occurs,
but WHEN… Read full article
HERE Mega tsunami is meant to refer to a tsunami with an initial wave amplitude
(wave height) measured in several tens, hundreds, or possibly thousands of
meters. La Palma is currently the most volcanically active island in the Canary
Islands Archipelago. It is likely that several eruptions would be required
before failure would occur on Cumbre Vieja. However, the western half of the
volcano has an approximate volume of 500 km3 (5 x 1011 m3) and an estimated mass
of 1.5 x 1015 kg. If it were to catastrophically slide into the ocean, it could
generate a wave with an initial height of about 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) at the
island, and a likely height of around 50 metres (164 ft) at the Caribbean and
the Eastern North American seaboard when it runs ashore eight or more hours
later.
Potential collapse and tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands Madrid: Steaming magma is bubbling onto the sea
surface. The earth shakes, and a smell of sulphur floats in the air. For over a month, residents of the Spanish Canary
Island of El Hierro have lived with an active underwater volcano that not only
poses a security threat, but also scares off tourists and endangers the
inhabitants' livelihoods. Volcanic eruptions could continue for weeks, civil
protection science representative Carmen Lopez said. However, the situation has been deemed safe enough for
the 550 evacuated residents of the fishing village of La Restinga to return
home, though the island was still being hit by earthquakes. The earth began trembling on El Hierro on July 19, in a
sign that magma was rising towards the surface of the smallest Canary Island.
The island of 11,000 residents has a large volcano and
more than 250 craters. But its volcanic power had been dormant for centuries,
with the last eruption reported in 1793. El Hierro has now experienced more than 11,000
earthquakes since July. The vast majority were not noticed by the population,
but grew in intensity. Dozens of people were evacuated for fear of rockslides
in September, and an army unit was put on standby to help in the event of a mass
evacuation. An underwater eruption occurred on October 10,
following an earthquake of a magnitude greater than 4. Scientists observing
seismic activity confirmed the eruption. Dead fish were seen floating on the
water. Volcanic activity has since continued intermittently,
with witnesses reporting jets of gas and ash spewing several metres above sea
level. The eruptions have sent a large volume of greenish
magma spilling into the sea. An oceanographic vessel discovered a 100-metre-high
volcano with a 120-metre-diameter crater located at a depth of about 200 metres.
It is thought possible that magma is also breaking
through one or two other outlets. Some of the eruptions have been observed as
close as 1.5 kilometres off El Hierro's southern coast. The nearby La Restinga has been evacuated several
times. There has also been concern over a possible eruption off Frontera, the
island's economic capital in the north, following strong earthquakes in the
area. More than 50 people were evacuated. “The worst scenario would be an eruption on land,”
Canaries security chief Juan Manuel Santana told the daily El Pais. There is even a remote possibility of eruptions
resulting in new land. Possible names for a new Canary Island have already been
suggested on the internet, such as Atlantis or Discovery. For the moment, however, experts are most concerned
about the presence of toxic gases, though there is practically no evidence so
far of health damage to the population. Most El Hierro residents are more worried about their
livelihoods than about the simmering volcano. The earthquakes and eruptions have brought fishing and
touristic diving to a standstill in La Restinga, some of whose residents had to
resort to emergency food aid. Life is now returning to the village while two nearby
coves still remain closed to the public. The authorities are also maintaining some of the
traffic restrictions imposed earlier. Traffic will remain limited in a key
tunnel linking Frontera with the island's capital Valverde. The traffic problems
have sparked more protests over economic losses. There were initial hopes that the volcano would draw
more tourists to the island, which receives about 7,000 visitors annually. But the opposite happened, with more than 1,500
cancelling their holidays and causing losses worth hundreds of thousands of
euros for the local tourism industry, its representatives said. Magma now covers some of the island's rich underwater
flora and fauna at the Mar de las Calmas marine reserve, which was a favourite
among tourists. Some El Hierro residents are preparing demonstrations,
accusing Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's government of abandoning
them. “Other emergencies only last a certain time, but that
is not the case now,” Santana said. “What people want is a return to normality,
to routine.” -Sapa ******** Madrid - Steaming magma is bubbling onto the sea
surface. The earth shakes, and a smell of sulphur floats in the air. For over a month, residents of the Spanish Canary
Island of El Hierro have lived with an active underwater volcano that not only
poses a security threat, but also scares off tourists and endangers the
inhabitants' livelihoods. Volcanic eruptions could continue for weeks, civil
protection science representative Carmen Lopez said this week. However, the situation has been deemed safe enough for
the 550 evacuated residents of the fishing village of La Restinga to return
home, though the island was still being hit by earthquakes. The earth began trembling on El Hierro on July 19, in a
sign that magma was rising towards the surface of the smallest Canary Island.
The island of 11,000 residents has a large volcano and
more than 250 craters. But its volcanic power had been dormant for centuries,
with the last eruption reported in 1793. El Hierro has now experienced more than 11,000
earthquakes since July. The vast majority were not noticed by the population,
but grew in intensity. Dozens of people were evacuated for fear of rockslides
in September, and an army unit was put on standby to help in the event of a mass
evacuation. An underwater eruption occurred on October 10,
following an earthquake of a magnitude greater than 4. Scientists observing
seismic activity confirmed the eruption. Dead fish were seen floating on the
water. Volcanic activity has since continued intermittently,
with witnesses reporting jets of gas and ash spewing several metres above sea
level. The eruptions have sent a large volume of greenish
magma spilling into the sea. An oceanographic vessel discovered a 100-metre-high
volcano with a 120-metre-diameter crater located at a depth of about 200 metres.
It is thought possible that magma is also breaking
through one or two other outlets. Some of the eruptions have been observed as
close as 1.5 kilometres off El Hierro's southern coast. The nearby La Restinga has been evacuated several
times. There has also been concern over a possible eruption off Frontera, the
island's economic capital in the north, following strong earthquakes in the
area. More than 50 people were evacuated. “The worst scenario would be an eruption on land,”
Canaries security chief Juan Manuel Santana told the daily El Pais. There is even a remote possibility of eruptions
resulting in new land. Possible names for a new Canary Island have already been
suggested on the internet, such as Atlantis or Discovery. For the moment, however, experts are most concerned
about the presence of toxic gases, though there is practically no evidence so
far of health damage to the population. Most El Hierro residents are more worried about their
livelihoods than about the simmering volcano. The earthquakes and eruptions have brought fishing and
touristic diving to a standstill in La Restinga, some of whose residents had to
resort to emergency food aid. Life is now returning to the village while two nearby
coves still remain closed to the public. The authorities are also maintaining some of the
traffic restrictions imposed earlier. Traffic will remain limited in a key
tunnel linking Frontera with the island's capital Valverde. The traffic problems
have sparked more protests over economic losses. There were initial hopes that the volcano would draw
more tourists to the island, which receives about 7,000 visitors annually. But the opposite happened, with more than 1,500
cancelling their holidays and causing losses worth hundreds of thousands of
euros for the local tourism industry, its representatives said. Magma now covers some of the island's rich underwater
flora and fauna at the Mar de las Calmas marine reserve, which was a favourite
among tourists. Some El Hierro residents are preparing demonstrations,
accusing Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's government of abandoning
them. “Other emergencies only last a certain time, but that
is not the case now,” Santana said. “What people want is a return to normality,
to routine.” - Sapa-dpa Hungry for more
scitech news? Sign up for our daily newsletter ***** What would the island be called? And who would own it? Spewing magma
and growing in height, an underwater volcano off the Canary Island of El Hierro
has captured the imagination of locals in recent weeks. It could eventually rise
from the sea to create a new part of the archipelago. It hasn't yet reached the surface, but residents of the Canary Islands have
taken to the internet to suggest names for a potential new islet. There are
already more than 500 suggestions. Favorites include "The Discovery," "Atlantis"
and "The Best." Meanwhile Spanish newspapers are taking a different approach to
the subject, debating who would take responsibility for the new territory.
Whether the eruption near the archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa
will ever actually result in new land remains uncertain. But it's clear that the
magma reservoir under El Hierro is simmering unchecked, constantly pouring out
magma and causing the ground to shake several times a day. Since July, there
have been more than 10,000 earthquakes -- mostly imperceptible -- on El Hierro.
Volcanologists expect more eruptions, but they don't know where the lava will be
released. Even small eruptions on land are possible. The volcanic activity will
"probably last for some time," said the Mayor of El Hierro, Alpidio Armas. Dead Fish The effects of the underwater volcanic events are clearly visible: powerful
eddies result from explosions in the deep. A sea of ash bigger than El Hierro
itself is floating off the island, with gas bubbling up and dead fish scattered
in the water. Politicians and scientists are offering daily advice on possible risks to the
local population, but their understanding of events under the seabed is far from
complete. "Recent volcanism in the Canary Islands is not well known," says a
report in the "Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences" journal by
researchers at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona, led by
Rosa Sobradelo. Nonetheless, advice on the potential dangers is being dispensed
by the authorities on El Hierro as well as in the rest of the Canary Islands. Scientists have stepped up their monitoring; there is even a submarine taking
pictures of the ocean floor, showing the new undersea mountain, already 700
meters (2,300 feet) wide. A 150-meter (490-foot) crater can also be seen. There
is also fissure three kilometers (two miles) long that is clearly gushing magma.
Disturbing Measurements Recorded To the south of El Hierro, the earthquakes suggest persistent outbursts of
lava, according to the ITER research institute on Tenerife. They show a pattern
that is typical for flowing liquid, a so-called harmonic volcanic tremor.
Presumably, there are constant small eruptions on the ocean floor. But the lava
usually clogs the fissure quickly after such eruptions, forcing further magma to
seek new channels -- exactly what seems to be happening now. In recent days, however, some unsettling measurements have been recorded: The
shaking has moved to the north. Because most of the earthquakes in that area
have, up until now, occurred at depths of more than ten kilometers, an eruption
is not expected in the area, the local authorities have said. The magma seems to
be contained in the depths thus far. If the lava was being spewed in shallower water, there would be a danger of
large steam explosions, says to Ramon Ortiz, the science advisor to the local
government. But there are no fears of large eruptions on land according to
Spain's National Geographic Institute (IGN). The only risk is in the immediate
vicinity of the eruption site, where there may be lava flows and rocks flung
into the air. Still, many of the nearly 600 residents of the fishing village of
La Restinga on the southern tip of the island have now returned home after being
evacuated two weeks ago. A Major Eruption? The risk of large, explosive eruptions in the Canary Islands, however,
"should not be neglected," Sobradelo and her colleagues insist in their study.
The frequency of their occurrence cannot currently be estimated. But even the
most momentous outbursts of the past few centuries remained localised. In 1706,
lava from the Pico del Teide volcano hit Tenerife, burying the port town of
Garachio in the northwest of the island where massive black boulders now form
the remnants of the lava flow. On Lanzarote, lava poured through villages in the
north of the island from 1730 to 1740 and again in 1824. La Palma has
experienced more than a hundred eruptions in the past 20,000 years; most
recently in 1971 when a flow of lava ran into the sea.
In the eastern Canaries, on the other hand, supplies of lava have largely run
out; they have already been far removed from the magma source. On Lanzarote and
Gran Canaria, volcanic activity has already lasted 15 million years, on
Fuerteventura 20 million. Although there has not been an eruption on
Fuerteventura in the past 20,000 years, the volcano is still considered active
-- unlike La Gomera, which seems to have run out of fresh magma. The island is
expected to be spared from any future volcanic eruptions. It pays a price for
this, however -- without any new lava, La Gomera will be washed away by rain and
sea, and eventually, over the course of millions of years, will gradually sink
back into the ocean. Only fresh magma secures the existence of the Canaries; it was volcanic
eruptions which allowed the islands to grow above the water in the first place.
The sea is already at work trying to reclaim the land. Coastal roads have
repeatedly had to be moved inland after being battered by floods. But the recent
underwater lava eruptions could be creating new land near El Hierro, and
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1450 BC:
the Minoan civilization is destroyed by the Mycenaens
1184 BC: Troy falls to Mycenae
1100 BC:
Mycenae is detroyed by Dorian invaders who have iron weapons
1100
BC: Delphi is the capital of a league of Greek cities (including Sparta
and Athens)
1000 BC: Greeks colonize the eastern coasts of the
Aegean Sea
950 BC: Greeks found Miletus in Ionia (west coast of
Turkey)
800 BC: city-states
or "polis" (Athens, Thebes, Megara, Corinth, Sparta)
560 BC: the
temple of Artemis at Ephesus is built
549 BC: Cyrus, king of Persia,
conquers Medes, Lydia and Greek city-states in Asia Minor
546 BC:
tyrant Peisistratus conquers Athens
510 BC: The temple of Ceres at Paestum (in
Italy) is built
505 BC: a temple to Apollo is built at Delphi
493
BC: Themistocles seizes power in Athens and invests in naval power and
international trade
490 BC: the first Persian War (battle of
Marathon)
490 BC: Darius, king of Persia, invades Greece
481 BC:
both Athens and Sparta join the Hellenic League against Persia
480
BC: Xerses, king of Persia, invades Greece but si defeated at the naval
battle of Salamis
480 BC: Syracuse repels an attack by Carthage
480 BC: the Persians led by Xerxes sack Athens
480 BC: the Greeks
defeat the Persians at Salamis
478 BC: the Hellenic League conquers
Cyprus and Byzantium from the Persians
461 BC: first Peloponnesian War
between Athenians and Spartans
454 BC: Athens attacks the Persians
in Egypt but is defeated
450
BC: Temple of Zeus at Olympia
438 BC: the Parthenon is inaugurated
in Athens
431 BC: the second Peloponnesian War between Athens and
Sparta
431 BC: second Peleponnesean war
430 BC: Athens has about
200,000 inhabitants
430 BC: the temple of
Concord is built at Agrigento (in Sicily)
415 BC: Syracuse with help
from Sparta repels an invasion from Athens
410 BC: the temple of the
Erechtheion is built at the Athens acropolis
404 BC: Athens loses
the second Peloponnesian War and Sparta imposes the Thirty Tyrants, a
group of aristocratic Spartans, which end the supremacy of Athens
395
BC: Athens, Argos, Corinth and Thebes revolt against Sparta and Persia
attacks Sparta ("Corinthian war")
373 BC: the temple of Apollo at
Delphi is destroyed
373 BC: the temple to Apollo at Delphi is ruined
371 BC: Athens, Thebes, Chios, Mytilene, Byzantium, Rhodes and
others defeat Sparta which loses its supremacy (first defeat by Sparta
in its entire history)
344 BC: Philip II of Macedonia conquers Thessaly,
Illyria, Epirus,
338 BC: Philip II defeats Athens and Thebes at Chaeronea
and unites several eastern Greek cities (League of Corinth)
336 BC:
Philip II of Macedonia is assassinated and is succeeded by his son
Alexander
334 BC:
Alexander defeats the Persian army at the Dardanelles
333 BC:
Alexander invades the Persian empire from Syria to Palestine
332 BC:
Alexander conquers Egypt
331 BC: Alexander conquers Persia (battle
of Gaugamela) and destroys Persepolis, ending the Achaemenid dynasty
329 BC: a new temple to Apollo is built at Delphi
325 BC: earliest
papyrus written in Greek
324 BC: Alexander invades the Punjab in
India
290 BC: the Colossus of Rhodos is built
279 BC: the Gauls invade
Greece
277 BC: Antigonus II Gonatos defeats the Gauls and becomes
king of Macedonia
274 BC: Pyrrhus invades Macedonia and Greece
272 BC: Antigonus II Gonatos defeats Pyrrhus
261 BC: Antigonus II
Gonatos conquers Athens
168 BC: the Romans defeat Perseus and end the Antigonid
dynasty
149 BC: the Romans annex Macedonia as a province
89 BC:
Mithriades VI of Pontos leads a revolt against Rome
86 BC: Roman
general Sulla defeats Mithridates and burns Athens
30 BC: the Romans
conquer all of Greece
49 AD: Paul preaches Christianity in Greece
3,500 years ago Minoans developed a complex civilization in the islands
of the Eastern Mediterranean, while the rest of Europe was still in the
Neolithic ("New Stone Age"), building palaces, paved streets and sewers when
Greek tribes lived in shelters. This people was not Indo-European, but rather
related to the Basque or Caucasus ethnic groups.
By 1500 BC the
civilization of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth suddenly disappeared, being
destroyed, it seems, by a giatsunami.
The Santorini's huge cone fell into the sea together
with the western part of the island, provoking a big wave that flooded many
islands in the Aegean Sea. The Atlantis, no matter if it was an island or a city
(the continent variant is too fictional), could have collapsed due to
earthquakes and tsunamis accompanying the eruption.
The stifling
volcanic ash impeded for days the sunlight reaching the eastern basin of the
Mediterranean. About 80 cubic km of Santorini either blew up or fell into the
sea, and all nearby life forms were erased. In time, the island was repopulated
and baptized Calliste ("The most beautiful").
Still, the island has
erupted 14 times between 198 BC and 1950. The 1659 eruption killed 70 people.
The inhabited part of the island was devastated again in 1956 by a massive
earthquake. From time to time, the giant volcano spits smoke.
Today,
Santorini (also named Thyra) keeps just the eastern half of the ancient volcano.
Remains of the ancient Santorini are also the islands of Thirasia and Aspronisi
(uninhabited), in the west. The island is like a rock wall volcanic caldera, 300
m (1,000 ft) tall, devoid of sand beaches and harboring two volcanic islets: Nea
Kameni and Palaia Kameni. In Antiquity, the island was called Strongyle
("Rounded") because of its shape, before the 3,500 year old eruption.
Excavations made at Santorini in 1966-1967 revealed the presence of a rich royal
city, buried in the volcanic debris and kept intact as it was when the eruption
occurred. Probably its inhabitants did not want to admit that their splendid
city was gone, so the legend of the Atlantis, still flourishing on the bottom of
the sea, began.
3,500 years ago, the wave may not have destroyed
Knossos, the inland Minoan capital, but the massive ash falls could have ruined
the crop, causing famine. At the same date, Egyptians mentioned a huge invasion
of the "People of the Sea", seafaring raiders that could have been chased away
from the Crete Island by famine. In Canaan they mixed with local Hebrews,
forming another civilization of seafarers, the Phoenicians. The Etruscans of
Italy could have also rooted in the Atlantis collapse.
Mega
Tsunami and catastrophic effects if CUMBRE VIEJA VOLCANO Palma Canary Islands
Collapse
Restless underwater volcano disrupts life on Canary
island
Restless volcano a ticking time bomb
10/27/2011
Underwater Lava
Eruptions Could Create New Island in the Canar
It's an
underwater volcano off the coast of El Hierro, the southern-most Canary
Island, which has caught the imagination of locals. For three weeks it has been
spewing magma into the sea in the first volcanic eruptions on the Canary Islands
for 40 years. The lava is already towering 100 meters above the seabed --
another 150 meters and it will protrude above the Atlantic Ocean, creating a new
island. For Canarians, it's a welcome new attraction.
El Hierro is the youngest of the Canary Islands, appearing above the surface of
the sea just over a million years ago. As such, it is likely its magma reservoir
may still be very large; geologists suspect it is around ten kilometers below
the seabed -- most of the tremors have occurred at this depth. The last
confirmed eruption was in 550 BC, although there are also disputable reports of
an event in 1793.
