Tenerife volcano alert: Shock as 270 earthquakes hit Brit holiday favourite Canary Islands

Tuesday, May 8, 2018
By Paul Martin

TENERIFE and Gran Canaria have been struck by an astonishing 270 earthquakes in just 10 days, sparking fears nearby volcano Teide is about to blow.

By REBECCA PERRING
Express.co.uk
Tue, May 8, 2018

The Spanish islands, a popular holiday destinations with Britons, have been rocked by a flurry of seismic activity since April 29.

The earthquakes have sparked panic across the Canary Islands as an increase in activity could be sign Tenerife’s Mount Teide could be set to erupt.

Research suggests the earthquakes are being caused by a submarine fault between the two islands.

Mount Teide, which boasts the highest summit in Spain, last erupted in 1909.

The director of the National Seismic Network from Spain’s National Geographic Institute said the biggest quake reached a magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale at only about 35km from Puerto La Luz, Port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

A report said the fault line has not been active in recent times, but it added: “What if it started spewing magma again? And what if it was reactivating the Teide volcano? That would be cataclysmic.”

But the director of the National Seismic Network from Spain’s National Geographic Institute, Emilio Carreño, said the majority of earthquakes registered in the past few days have been of tectonic origin, and “are not usually associated with volcanology” or the volcanic activity that originally formed the archipelago, he said “it is not unusual”.

Speaking to Canary news, he added: “Right now in the Peninsula there are quite a few places at which these series are being observed, it is common during any single month to register between 100 and 600 earthquakes in areas like in the Jódar area, or in Jaén, which can experience between 400 and 500 at the same time.”

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