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The Scientist in charge of the team studying the seismic activity on the Canary Island of El Hierro, Nemesio Pérez, has told the press how is is more concerned about earthquakes on the tiny island than he is of any Volcano eruption "Usually in the Canaries, they have not been that explosive, just trickles of lava. There are victims when there are earthquakes, which is why I am more concerned about the earthquakes rather than the eventual eruption."
Perez, who is the scientific coordinator of the Canaries Institute of Volcanology (Involcan) continued : "Spain has a seismic alert system comparable to that of a third-world country," he says. "Predicting volcanic activity has three components: tremors, gas emissions and deformations. But in Spain, attention is only paid to the first stage."
He told reporters how any volcanic eruption would not be rare, but the uncertainty stems from the fact that in El Hierro there isn't just one major volcano but around 500 vents on the island. As such, no one can be sure where the lava will flow if there does end up being an eruption.
The problem that this causes is that it is impossible to monitor and cordon off each and evert vent, but each one could still produce potentially fatal toxic fumes.
The Island residents have actually felt around 60 of the 9'000 recorded earthquakes over the past two months, however the frequency and strength has increased over the past two weeks.
Read further news stories about the El Hierro Volcano by clicking the link HERE .