Alert: Volcano eruption in La Palma could result in mega-tsunami

They’ve started evacuations:

https://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org...-con-movilidad-reducida-en-nucleos-de-riesgo/

Translated:

"The PEVOLCA Directorate begins the preventive evacuation of people with reduced mobility in areas of risk"

It is launched for Las Manchas (Manchas de Abajo, Jedey, San Nicolás and El Paraíso), in the municipalities of El Paso and Los Llanos de Aridane; El Charco (Fuencaliente); La Bombilla (Los Llanos and Tazacorte) and El Remo and Puerto Naos (Los Llanos de Aridane)

The PEVOLCA Scientific Committee reports that we are still in a pre-eruptive phase, with dangers associated with seismicity and landslides.

Preventive measures are intensified, but the yellow traffic light remains in the affected municipalities

This afternoon the Scientific Committee and the PEVOLCA Steering Committee meet again

The Scientific Committee of the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Attention to Emergencies due to Volcanic Risk (PEVOLCA), meeting today Sunday, has recommended to the Plan's Steering Committee the preventive evacuation of the population at risk, after verifying that seismic activity has reached the maximum since start of the swarm on La Palma. Based on this information, the Steering Committee has decided to begin evacuating, as a priority, people with reduced mobility in the population centers of Las Manchas (Las Manchas de Abajo, Jedey, San Nicolás and El Paraíso), which includes the municipalities of El Paso and Los llanos de Aridane; El Charco (Fuencaliente), La Bombilla (Los Llanos de Aridane and Tazacorte) and El Remo and Puerto Naos (Los Llanos de Aridane).

The volcanic traffic light remains yellow, although civil protection actions are intensified and the Technical Directorate is empowered to program the selective evacuation of other areas of the Cumbre Vieja, if necessary, under the coordination of the Cabildo and city councils. The estimated population is one thousand people.

The different administrations have also taken measures to control roads, with access cuts and suspension of activities.

This afternoon the Scientific Committee and the PEVOLCA Steering Committee meet again.

Experts have indicated that seismic activity continues to intensify with events located on the surface to depths of 8 km. The earthquakes felt with maximum intensity III-IV are countable. There are also surface manifestations such as noise, vibrations, associated with surface seismicity. Seismic activity has peaked since the start of the swarm.

In addition, the deformations have increased, with a cumulative deformation of 15 cm (5 cm in the last 24 hours). The center of pressure coincides with the area in which the earthquakes are superficially perceived: Las Manchas and Jedey.

In this scenario, the committee considers the occurrence of felt earthquakes of greater intensity likely, which can cause damage to infrastructures. They can also cause rockslides on the LP-2 highway sections between Fuencaliente and Las Manchas and also on the LP-3 in the access to the Santa Cruz de La Palma-El Paso tunnel. Earthquakes are not ruled out in areas with steep slopes, especially if the seismicity exceeds magnitude 4.0

The experts ask the public to inform the authorities if they observe any anomaly, and that the process continues and may have a short-term evolution. At this time we are in the pre-eruptive phase, increasing the probability that it will culminate in an eruption, without being able to establish a time window.

The Scientific Committee insists on the current relevance of the dangers associated with seismicity and landslides. The intensification of measures with the preventive evacuation of the population at risk is recommended.

The continuous monitoring of the activity has been reinforced and any significant changes observed will be communicated.

The population must be attentive to the communications of the competent authorities in Civil Protection, through official channels and the media.

The Scientific Committee is coordinated by the General Directorate of Security and Emergencies of the Government of the Canary Islands and is made up of representatives of the National Geographic Institute (IGN), Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC); The Canary Islands Volcanological Institute (Involcan), the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME), the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), the University of La Laguna and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

PEVOLCA establishes a volcanic traffic light as an alert system to the population based on four colors depending on the risk: green, yellow, orange and red. In yellow, information to the population, surveillance measures and monitoring of volcanic and seismic activity are intensified.

Before a volcanic eruption, there is a gradual increase in seismic activity, which can last for a long time and can be perceived by the population.

In the case of feeling an earthquake inside a house, protect yourself under a door frame or a solid piece of furniture, such as a table, and stand away from the sale​

 

It’s an actual lava eruption already, not just smoke and ash:

https://twitter.com/inteldoge/status/1439601274543083524?s=10

 

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It’s all over the news now.

 

Well that's my contact list warned I guess my new nick name will be Noah ...

Lets pray hope and not worry...but for the record I'm glad to be part of this wonderful forum for without it none of us would have been given a heads up.. even if this is a storm in a tea cup Id rather know either way..

Prayers for all here stay safe brothers and sisters...