SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 18. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The island of Tenerife has registered about 25 earthquakes in the Teide area, specifically to the southwest of Pico Viejo, from 00:00 this Saturday and until 05:15, the largest being magnitude 2, according to data from the National Geographic Institute ( IGN) collected by Europa Press.
As for the movement of greater magnitude –that of 2 mbLg–, it took place at 02:48 hours northeast of Guía de Isora and at a depth of 23 kilometers.
Meanwhile, the 25 earthquakes detected since last midnight have been at depths that ranged between eleven and 26 kilometers.
On the other hand, during the early hours of Thursday to Friday, the IGN and the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcan) detected a ‘swarm’ of hybrid events of very low magnitude in the Cañadas del Teide, southwest of Pico Viejo, in which Finally, 458 events have been detected, of which 13 are of greater magnitude.
Around 300 were located in a time interval of 2 hours and 20 minutes and this Thursday there was also seismicity in the same area with five earthquakes detected. The maximum magnitude that has been reached is 1.6 and at a depth of 13 kilometers.
In this regard, this ‘seismic swarm’ has characteristics very similar to those recorded on October 2, 2016 and June 14, 2019 and the most likely origin is the movement of fluids such as steam, gas or water inside the hydrothermal system of the volcano.
Therefore, from Involcan they specify that these movements do not imply a greater probability of an eruption in the short or medium term but remember that Tenerife “is still a volcanically active island”.
