The 2011 submarine volcanic eruption in El Hierro (Canary Islands) |
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| Authors: | Juan Carlos Carracedo Francisco Pérez Torrado Alejandro Rodríguez González Vicente Soler José Luis Fernández Turiel Valentin R Troll Sebastian Wiesmaier |
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| Institution: | 1. Grupo de Investigación GEOVOL, Dpto. de Física, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain jcarracedo@proyinves.ulpgc.es;2. Estación Volcanológica de Canarias, IPNA‐CSIC, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain;3. Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain;4. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden;5. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universit?t, Munich, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Forty years after the Teneguía Volcano (La Palma, 1971), a submarine eruption took place off the town of La Restinga, south of El Hierro, the smallest and youngest island of the Canarian Archipelago. Precursors allowed an early detection of the event and its approximate location, suggesting it was submarine. Uncertainties derived from insufficient scientific information available to the authorities during the eruption, leading to disproportionate civil protection measures, which had an impact on the island's economy—based primarily on tourism—while residents experienced extra fear and distress. |
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