Unfortunately, Cumbre Vieja is a shield volcano, meaning that a big boom is unlikely. Shield volcanos are runny whereas stratovolcanoes have large eruptions. Krakatoa is a stratovolcano, as are most other famous less active volcanoes.
This is a volcano produced by either a hotspot under minor faulting or faulting over a minor hotspot. They don't do the big kaboom very often. The magma needs to burn it's way up through a silica-rich continental plate for that either by a hotspot (Yellowstone Caldera) or an ocean plate subducting under it offshore (Ring of Fire). This is burning upward through thin low-silica deep ocean plate. Hawaii and Iceland, basically.
Correct on the volcano not being the type
Since this thing is squirting out lava I think we can safely discard the "massive earthquake landslide tsunami" fears. The pressure is being relieved. Not growing. Meaning no island-shattering magma displacement.
Eruption doesn't guarantee that pressure is being released faster than its being built up - it just means some of the island was weaker than the forces being exerted on it. The question is how much more pressure is coming, and how much more can the island handle.
It pretty much does. What is the driver here? Why should it speed up?
Yes. And venting pressure.
As much as what has built up in the magma chamber and all of it. This isn't a kaboom-type eruption.
Whatever you say Mister "Lava tubes are 10000km long and reach across continents".
Listen buddy, the pressure from the magma build-up is going to launch the entire island 5km into the sky and back down into the ocean which will generate a 350m wave which will ackychually gain power as it races across the Atlantic destroying the entire eastern seaboard, meanwhile the worldwide magma tubes will set of a chain reaction that causes Yellowstone to go off and also the entire Pacific Ring of Fire all at once. The rapid changes to Earth's magnetic core will bring asteroids spiraling down upon us, meanwhile the elites will unleash COVID-22 which will then hybridize with the pythons in the Everglades (which are now global thanks to all the mega-tsunamis) and kill all the survivors.
Livestream I'm. watching right now says the lava is 1.4kms from the ocean.
Found a tweet with a pretty cool picture in it.
ElPeriódico Societat on Twitter: "Volcà de La Palma: última hora de l…
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The volcano exploding was never the issue. The flank of the island breaking apart and sliding into the ocean is what will allegedly cause a tsunami and all that requires is an earthquake in the right place.
It takes a lot more than one in the right place. Intensity is a huge factor. That shit is logarithmic and we ain't even close to island breaking apart forces. And yes, exploding volcanoes are part of the issue. Exploding volcanoes have andesite magma that is high in silica versus low silica mafic lava that flows, well, how it's been flowing. High-silica magma acts like a plug and makes those big pointy stratovolcanoes. It increases pressures making them explodey and... wait for it... have more intense earthquakes when that magma plug shifts.