El Hierro suffers ‘brutal’ deformation due to seismic activity

The seismic activity affecting the island of El Hierro over the last five days has caused a deformation of the island of up to 5 centimetres (vertically) and has caught the attention of researchers, calling this accumulated deformation of up to 5 centimetres in five days “brutal”.

Though there has been a decrease of seismic events in the last 48 hours, which has made PEVOLCA (Civil Protection Plan for Volcanic Risk) keep the current ‘green light’ for alerts and warnings, they have cautiously claimed that the current re-activation process has finished.

The ground deformation also appears to have stabilised with recent GPS data provided by the network of the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcan) showing a vertical deformation in these five days of nearly five centimetres. The latest GPS data processed by researchers from Involcan and Nagoya University have shown significant changes, especially in the station located in La Restinga where, from the 13th September, the ground has shifted by 1.34 centimetres horizontally and 4.81 centimetres vertically.

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