La Palma is rumbling - What are the implications of a 40 foot Tsunami along the east coast?

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Geology Hub la Palma update. Another lava stream reaches the option. And some slightly increased activity at the older volcano.
 
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Another strong earthquake just happened on La Palma. IGN upgraded the earthquake from a 4.8 to a 5.0.
 
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Wooo said:
Another strong earthquake just happened on La Palma. IGN upgraded the earthquake from a 4.8 to a 5.0.
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This earthquake has been strongly felt even on the other islands, and has awakened the residents who were sleeping. (:_(

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“This earthquake woke us up. At least in El Paso it felt violently, it moved objects, windows panes, everything. On the ground it was tremendous and its magnitude 5 places it among the largest since the eruption began”.

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“What a nightmare-like sensation to be awakened by a magnitude 5 earthquake in Tenerife when it happened in La Palma, the bed and the window panes vibrated. It reminds me of when I was a child, in 1989 we had a 5.3 in Tenerife that woke up everyone up at dawn too”.
 
St Helens went off from a 5.0 (or a 5.1) after some slow activity being picked up. Really hope this is just the volcano throwing up the last lava she possibly has left.
 
Not to be the paranoid conspiracy nut. But I wonder why the Spanish government chose to park their largest most capable Navy ship. The one that can provide disaster relief or massive evacuation, off la Palma now.? And not 2 months ago?
 
Morning Bushcraft Bear. Another strong Earthquake. Big steam cloud from new stream hitting the sea.

Some decent footage from close to the new point where Lava reached the sea. And the Science teams going in to measure stuff.
 
RodgerDodger said:
Not to be the paranoid conspiracy nut. But I wonder why the Spanish government chose to park their largest most capable Navy ship. The one that can provide disaster relief or massive evacuation, off la Palma now.? And not 2 months ago?
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For a non-conspiratorial answer, the Spanish Navy probably wasn't ready to do jack or shit with that ship. They're not exactly the naval superpower they once were, and I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the ship wasn't at all ready for civil support. Keep it half ready for surprise conflict, otherwise keep maintenance down and in the docks.
 
Kuritan Deplorable said:
For a non-conspiratorial answer, the Spanish Navy probably wasn't ready to do jack or shit with that ship. They're not exactly the naval superpower they once were, and I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the ship wasn't at all ready for civil support. Keep it half ready for surprise conflict, otherwise keep maintenance down and in the docks.
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Or the government is just corrupt and/or incompetent and just hoped the volcano would die down, until they were forced to do something about it.
 
Friday Bushcraft Bear report. He’s off until Sunday as normal unless things go all apocalyptic. Some interesting tidbits in this one. Apparently la Palma is impressing geologists with just how insanely thick the lava flows are. Being 30 meters thick in many places and up to 80 meters in some peak spots. This is much thicker than the closest analogues in Hawaii. And they calculate it will take years or decades for the lava flows to cool. Which means there will be no way to cut or tunnel through them or otherwise clear them to rebuild roads and infrastructure.
Also unsurprisingly the Spanish Navy has the Ship there to facilitate shuttling farmers to their crops Bur so far only 40 farmers have taken them up on the offer.
 
I imagine my own farm under 30 meters of lava that won't cool for a decade.

:( Money can't replace land you've cared for for years.
 
Sped Xing said:
I imagine my own farm under 30 meters of lava that won't cool for a decade.

:( Money can't replace land you've cared for for years.
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But just imagine some mutant cockroach lizard archaeologist in 50 million years finding your perfectly preserved porn collection under all that lava. It being one small relic giving them insight into our long dead civilization.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
How does it take such a long time for a lava flow to cool? Lava in the volcano I guess I can understand, since it's touching a bunch of other lava. But how can a flow start THAT hot for THAT long?
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A 30m thick slab of anything heated up to a couple thousand degrees retains a lot of heat for a while. Probably several months.
 
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