Cumbre Vieja Volcano Part II & A-Team rescues trapped dogs from lava. 5

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Continued from Potential Disaster in the Making.

https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=487413

Definitely fulfilling every bit of its potential.
This is probably the worst disaster, excluding loss of life events, to hit Spain in a very long time. Nobody has died, but many lost a lifetime. Buried. Gone.

At least one bit of good news here.

Surprise Development!

This sign was discovered this morning.

Strength to La Palma! The dogs are fine!
signed: "A-team".

Video

https://diariodeavisos.elespanol.co...tribuye-el-rescate-de-los-perros-de-la-palma/

The A-Team has rescued the dogs trapped by the lava. Frustrated by the lack of action on the part of the authorities in approving the much anticipated air rescue attempt, The "A-Team", a group of animal activists took matters into their own hands. Apparently they mounted a covert operation sometime on Tuesday night and successfully slipped in past the police and around the roadblocks to rescue the dogs. The identity of the A Team agents and the present location of the dogs is being held secret, so as they cannot be prosecuted for violation of the security rules.

This story cannot yet be verified, but we hope it is true and that the dogs have indeed been rescued.

 

[Demented]

Aeration and such will be a slight issue, but it'll still be viable. I've had capsicums plants grow strictly in pumice as if it were a form of hydroponic media.

Precision guess work based on information provided by those of questionable knowledge

 

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Yeah, for hydroponics it could be good. Here the crop land issue would be binding in the water. Malpias is basically rock only and the ash is a black glassy, irregular grained sand. It will hold water, at least for a short time. The vineyards on Lanzarote have one vine planted in a depression, a layer of soil mixed with ash and ringed by stones salvaged from the depression. There is a condensing action with the humid air and cooler temperatures at night that gets them some water. Irrigation supplies the rest. Except for the north sides of the mountains, most areas are short of water and black sand gets pretty hot during the summer. The south facing slopes are desert island territory. The tourists like it, but not the best for growing things except the usual succulents and cacti. The north sides are best for vineyards and bananas and some fruit and nut trees and potato's at the higher elevations. The higher elevations are harder to irrigate and can get quite hot in the summer. It can be hit and miss. My neighbour has 700 ha at 2000ft and most of his vineyards burned this year in the sun and 40+ temps. Fortunately the potatoes survived, mostly on condensed water..

 

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News today is reporting
SO2 at 29,400 mt/d 1,225 mt/h
CO2 is 1,850 mt/d

 

[dik]

First recorded death... from the Weather Channel.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

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Yes, unfortunately a fatality has occurred within the exclusion zone. A 70yr old man was reported as a victim whom may have fallen from a roof that he was cleaning of ash. If true, I have a hard time actually blaming that directly on the volcano. More likely inadequate safety procedure and lack of safety line. In that regard, I'm surprised that there haven't been more accidents. I have yet to see anybody using safety lines. 3/12 roof pitches covered with fine grained ash are certainly very hazardous.

Of late there is some talk of reduction in released energy, but I think it is somewhat premature, as there are still periods of extreme activity. Although appearing to be lessening in frequency, it may simply be what people want to hear. In reality, the risk level has not measurably decreased; the monster has not gone anywhere and is still spitting out immense quantities of lave and ash. Although the lava flow has recently held to existing channels, I feel that if it decreased flow even a little, those existing channels would freeze and block, causing overflows and new channels to form on a subsequent increase. Some areas of solified previous lava flows subject to multiple overflows have now reached an impressive 40m in height. Such heights are usually not seen in other volcanos around the world.

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Columbia is rumbling away

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcanoes.html

One of the Icelandic dudes sent me that link

 

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I know that one too. I stayed at a friend's dairy farm in Juntas for a few months, 25km south of Ruiz in 1986, only a year after the mud flow that killed 25,000 in Armero. Many were still digging out. I voluntered to help with construction of a new school, as at the time I still remembered a little bit about structural engineering.

It is very impressive country, as Ruiz reaches to FL180 (17,800ft) and there are seven other volcanos in the area. It is in a very remote cloud forest. The ride to Juntas from Ibague is a few hours by "chivo", Billy goat, actually a very brightly painted school bus, up a rough mountain road on one side of a very steep gorge. The "road" is little more than a collection of 8 to 12" borders placed roughly in a curvey line ... which destroyed my back for days. I dont think I would attempt it again. If that's not enough, there are a number of hand pulled cable cars crossing the gorge to small farms on the other side... with very rusty cables as they get wet twice a day as the clouds move up then back down the valley. Fortunately I didn't have to take a cable car to reach the farm. Ruiz was only visible three times during the 3 mo I was there. That's where I noticed something about Colombia that I still remember. The poorer you are, the more flowers you have on your front porch. My friend had a water turbine generator to supply light and hot water. The only farm that had such a system in an otherwise electrically poor region with one tiny power company wire to supply all customers, which failed constantly and would be out for days at a time. When we didn't have enough water to run the generator, it was a very cold bath in the icy mountain water pool. All in all, a very cold, wet, rugged, but very beautiful area. I imagine it is still much the same today.

It sounds like it might be starting to act up again.

 

[dik]

The lava flow appears to be much more active.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[Demented]

Is it still 4 vents open or have any new ones opened up?

Precision guess work based on information provided by those of questionable knowledge

 

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latest map shows the lava hasn't covered very much additional territory. Its been sticking to the existing channels, except for some flows in the southern area and some previous surrounded points being filled in.

This one is from the 3rd of Nov, so you can see the lava coverage has not changed that much. Most of the lava is flowing into the ocean.

Last week the experts were beginning to talk about some light at the end of the tunnel, however a number of strong quakes down to 38km depth, some reaching Maag 5.1 again, with following increase in lava flows and blasted materials has ended that speculation.

And due to the continued high volume of pyroclastic materials the volcano is emmitting, its "volcano strength" level classification was upgraded from Level 2, to 3 on a scale of 8.

Actually there are 8 vents shown on the map, however some are blasting stronger, or flowing more lava, or making more smoke than others and they do vary some from time to time.

Heavy ash plume continues and the airport has been shut down again for the past few days. It will probably be for a few more days as they await a weather front to move in and change the winds to the SW again.

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

looks like one of the Med volcanoes is about to erupt as well.

Volcano north of Sicily.

Hope it goes soon in the winter season then there is no nonsense next summer.

 

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which one?

https://osm4wiki.toolforge.org/cgi-...project=en&article=List_of_volcanoes_in_Italy

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

https://watchers.news/2021/10/02/vulcano-alert-level-raised-italy-october-2021/

This one

last erupted 1890

 

[RedSnake]

The volcano seems to be on an isle called Vulcano.

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
Albert Einstein

 

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This photo made Time Mag list of 100 best photos of the year.

https://time.com/6123078/top-100-photos-2021/

 

[dik]

Beautiful, but tragic shots.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[RedSnake]

Yes and it's really surreal, like from a space film or something.
Or some one taken a photo after a heavy snowfall and forgot to take of there brown lins.

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
Albert Einstein

 

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Yeah. I could swear it's in Ray Bradsbury's "Martian Chronicals".

 

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A strange "sombrero" cloud appeared on Tiede (Isla de Tenerife) yesterday morning. A silhouette photo from the sun rising to the east appears to give an x-ray view of the cloud, especially dense near the peak. It snowed some up there on Tuesday morning.

Photo by Rafa Muñoz

Cumbre Vieja is still blowing and going. Record numbers of quakes (400 in 24h) are keeping it well supplied with lava. All thoughts of an early extinction have vanished. A lava stream has erupted below the ash covered house ( Time 100 photo above) and has escaped the main channel, to work its way down the north side of the existing flows, taking out more houses as it nears La Laguna. I'll publish the map later today.

 

[dik]

Thanks, much appreciated.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik