Cumbre Vieja volcano post eruption phase! Time to say goodbye for volcano-thank you for all support :)

Any mainstream news on this anywhere?

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Here is some info on the Mt. St. Helens bulge:

Deformation characteristics were far more obvious on Mt. St. Helens at hundreds of feet with the mountain bulging outward as 0.03 cubic miles of magma intruded.

Two months of thousands of small quakes under this deformation later, a 0.7 cubic mile section of the mountain created the largest recorded landslide.

In the weeks before the eruption the deformation accelerated to 5-6 feet per day, with a total of 400 feet of displacement northward before the collapse. Near the end, the south end of the mountain began to sink which dictated imminent eruption.

At La Palma we are seeing 1-3 inches of displacement per day but on the much MUCH larger scale of 400-500 cubic miles of material; roughly 700x the amount of Mt. St. Helens.

If we are to have learned anything from Mt. St. Helens, it’s to look for expanding faults around the boundary of the outward deformation bulge, look for sinking of landmass behind the bulge, and if a collapse-style eruption is expected . . . . evacuate the Atlantic coast in the USA and CANADA.

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Here's a video of a drive along the volcano ridge:
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Thanks OP and all contributors for this great thread!

During the Fukushima Tsunami of 2011, the maximum wave height was 133 feet and it penetrated 6 miles inland. You all have evidence that La Palma could cause a Tsunami that penetrates 20-40 miles inland? Ocean City, MD would be hit hard but DC also? DC is 146 miles away from Ocean City, MD.

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I think it would go a bit further than 6 miles because Japan had alot of hills almost right up to the coast where as places like my State in Florida has only landfills for hills.

However, with the way hydrodynamics work as the wave comes inland loss of energy and drag will do its thing and slow down and collapse the wave.

10 maybe 20 miles tops. Which is still fucking insane, but that's worst case.

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La Palma Island (Canary Islands): earthquake swarm slows down

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The earthquake swarm has slowed down significantly over the past 24 hours, but it is too early to draw conclusions as to whether the crisis might soon be ending or whether it will pick up again in intensity.

Seismic activity continued to migrate slightly to the northwest and quakes were mostly at depths of around 8 km, although there were also 20 quakes at only 1-3 km to the surface.

The maximum accumulated deformation reached about 6 cm by yesterday, the National Geographic Institute (IGN) reported. The rate of deformation has decreased, suggesting that the recent pulse of new magma intrusion might be over.