Eruption at El Hierro Creeping Towards the Surface

A brief update today on all the events at El Hierro - it looks like the eruption continues to work its way closer to the surface of the Atlantic as periodic explosions continue off the southern coast of the island. So far, there hasn't been any sustained explosive activity that would make the eruption truly Surtseyan in nature, but the last few periods of heightened activity did see larger explosive "bubbles" in at the surface, some potentially as high as 25 meters (see above). The video of the activity clearly shows that the materials reaching the surface are very ash/tephra rich and in the photos of the chain of "jacuzzis", you can see the clasts of volcanic debris floating (see below) on the surface. Some of the most recent estimates I've seen is that the vent is ~70 meters from the surface now, so close to that ~50 meter depth ...