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To view older updates you can read part one on El Hierro Eruption.  All times are now in UTC – please remember to share this post with others who might be interested. Update 21/10 – 08.35 :  Yesterday there was almost no change to the situation directly involving the eruption apart from the increase in [...]

IMPORTANT UPDATE:  All future updates can now be found here under our El Hierro Eruption Update. Update 16/10 – 15.51 :  What we were wondering earlier about the seismograph readings showing are actually explosions meaning that the eruption is now less than 100m from the surface.  AVCAN have said that once it is at less [...]

The El Hierro earthquake swarm, that began back in July 2011, has now exceeded 10,000 quakes and the volcano alert has been raised to red today amid fears that an eruption is likely to take place somewhere on the island. It is thought that yesterday a small underwater eruption took place about 5km out to [...]