Potential Disaster in the Making 10

[phamENG]

Cumbre Vieja, a volcano on La Palma in the Canaries, just erupted a couple of hours ago. National Geographic did an episode on it as part of a 'Disaster Earth' series a few years ago. Essentially, there's evidence of a massive landslide on the island a few hundred millennia ago, the likes of which would have formed a tsunami large enough to hit the east coast of the US. A recent earthquake seems to have restarted the process and formed a large fissure along the island.

Here's to hoping it doesn't move any more....

 

[1503-44]

The earthquake specialist. Said the seismic activity in Fuentecaliente during the afternoon probably initiated the fireworks we see now. There's a bit of severe violence going on now. Really high bursts. Or now we can see the full height with the frontal part of the cone gone.

 

[FacEngrPE]

Looks like my previous live video links are dead. Here are some current ones:
AFAR TV
LIVE: La Palma Volcano Eruption in the Canary Islands (Feed #1) 103
LIVE: La Palma Volcano Eruption, the Canary Islands (Feed #2) 103

 

[1503-44]

Massive explosions every second.

I think this is the primary link.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INvrtMg5tSQ

All links just shut down.


La Palma TV is on. That's

https://tvlapalma.com

They have pumped the fuel from the gas station in La Laguna.

 

[RedSnake]

Yep but the sound is on ... ?
Now it's coming back .. maybe the lins is full of soot
It was like some one turned the volcano off with a dimmer and now they have turned it on again.

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

 

[itsmoked]

44 can you specify what time on that last link that the blasts occurred? I'd love to hear what they sound like but I can't find any occurrences at all.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[RedSnake]

Well this and the youtube seem to be the same the others I do not know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INvrtMg5tSQ

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

 

[1503-44]

-2:20:22 on RedSnake's link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INvrtMg5tSQ

That's a live feed, so I guess that is relative to my post time???

It should be around 19:10 UTC according to the time stamp on my RTVC report picture above. But I think that time stamp is UTC, because it happened at 20:10 local time, UTC+1, because of daylight savings time.

 

[1503-44]

Timestamp test.

Yeah, that's what happened. The time stamp I see on this post is one hour behind local time, cause I just posted this and its stamped 21:41, but the local time is 22:41

So I think the melt down was at 19:10 UTC +/- 5min.

 

[1503-44]

Some talk about a large lava lake forming in the crater. No doubt. Its pumping it out like crazy. This could be a big mess by tomorrow morning.

Don't know the zoom setting on that camera, but they look even bigger now. Holieee!

 

[itsmoked]

Timestamp test.

I posted at 8:28pm (20:28) and ET states The UTC which is 3:28.

SooooOOoo If the current YouTube time is 0:00 on the feed then I need to go back on IT..
You estimate "19:10 UTC +/- 5min". Right now is 3:35UTC. That's 3:35 + 24:00-19:10UTC = 3:35 + 4:50 = 8:25

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[AusG]

The lunatic commentary on those live Youtubes is almost as startling as the volcano

 

[RedSnake]

Hmm the only one commenting in "my" youtube is the rooster going about his daily business around seven eight waking people up to a new morning.

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

 

[1503-44]

Commentary on YouTube is about the most idiotic there is. Internet access is too cheap. It wasn't that bad when we had to pay by the minute. Cover it up with Notepad.

Waiting for the first daylight drone flights to get posted to see what the heck happened last night. There were some blinking lights from police vehicles below the big stream that cleared out very quickly. 300 more people evacuated last night from the north side.


3 x 3.x earthquakes at Mazo , opposite side, across the ridge slightly to the south and down to Fuentecaliente

 

[RedSnake]

I wonder if this phenomena that it's always so much smoke during the day that you cant se anything is because the sunlight has more light frekvensens reflecting / lighting up the smoke, so when the sun is down the lava and the flames get more visible and the smoke is not.

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

 

[1503-44]

I'd just attribute that to the background effect. Flames are more visible when contrast with the background is increased. Maybe why stars and fireflies come out at night, but I admit that both could be active in the day time and they're just very hard to see. I could be wrong, because I don't know what frekvensens is.

I am estimating the height of the eruption is reaching 200 to 250m. I have not seen any estimates of that.

 

[RedSnake]

I guess wave lengths would have been better. ;-)

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

 

[RedSnake]

I seem to remember reading that the color you see is the one that simplified isn't absorbed, so if you look at an red apple in the daylight all other wave lengths gets absorbed but the red excites the electrons in the atoms of the shell so they jump between different layers in the atom and by doing so they emit the wave length of red so the apple looks red.

So in a dark room you cant se white smoke because there is now light, lava has so mush energi that it makes it's own light and can admit it's own wave lengths that can make things appear or not if they are the right "color".
Just from my head, might be in deep water now.. ...

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

 

[1503-44]

Right, the color reflected is what you see when an object is illuminated by an outside source. Lava color would be from the wavelength its radiation is emitting. Obviously bright yellows, oranges, reds and the infrared we can't see at all. I think it's just getting lost in all the reflected light we see in the daytime. No completion at night from all that reflection going on during the day. White smoke is a good reflector of light, black smoke absorbs most all, so during the day all we can see are reflections and some little bit of red. Even the yellow gets lost. Viewers on site have said they can see a number of other colors at times, green and purplish tones.

 

[RedSnake]

It feels like it is on the clock, now it is really starting acting up again.
And it has been digging it self down the side.

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

 

[1503-44]

Some very dirty solar panels.