SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 17 (EUROPA PRESS)
The National Geographic Institute (IGN) and the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcan) have recorded a ‘swarm’ of hybrid events of very low magnitude in the Cañadas del Teide, southwest of Pico Viejo, in which 458 events have finally 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.
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.
This ‘swarm’, they specify from Involcan, does not imply a greater probability of an eruption in the short or medium term but “remembers that Tenerife is still a volcanically active island”.
