It has now been a little over a week since the submarine eruption to the south of El Hierro
in the Canary Islands peaked. Since then, the activity on the south side has waned significantly
, no longer the bubbling cauldron we observed
last week
UPDATE: Nix that — bubbling has returned to the sea off of La Restriga
. However, as many images can attest, the stains in the Atlantic Ocean persist (see above), with a strong indication that at least limited degassing is occurring at the original vent sight. This new vent was imaged with sonar
to show a new cone with an associated lava flow — almost the same morphology of the terrestrial scoria cones that are scattered on the island itself. A small ROV also visited the area
(video) to look at the evidence of the eruption and it looks much like what you might expect ...
