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WORLD TENERIFE “EARTHQUAKE”: JOINS HANDS NO COVER-UP, SAY THE EXPERTS FOR JULEN Atlantic shock was “completely normal”
adequate facilities to monitor such activity and give any prewarning if that was ever deemed necessary. In November 2016, the network started with 15 permanent seismic stations of which 13 were installed on Tenerife and two on Gran Canaria. Currently, C7 has 27 permanent seismic stations and by the middle of this year will have a total of 39 permanent permanent seismic stations of which 20 will be operational in Tenerife, eight in LA Palma, four in El Hierro, three in Gran Canaria, two in Lanzarote, one in Fuerteventura and one in La Gomera.
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XPERTS looking ino the 4.4 underwater earthquake between Tenerife and Gran Canaria have denied any suggestions of a “cover-up” and have described the activity as completely normal.
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LL eyes, including those of Tenerife, have been on a dramatic rescue mission in Malaga and the fate of a little boy called Julen Rosello. At the time of going to press, hundreds of emergency workers were still trying to tunnel down to a well after the two-year-old fell into it whilst playing on a finca on Sunday, January 13th. The international press has been following the mission which was described as being on a par with the incredible rescue of the miners in Chile. Beyond all the odds, everyone was hoping for a miracle but time has inevitably run out and the worse was being expected, either yesterday (Tuesday) or today (Wednesday). The rescuers have had to dig deep down into the rocks and earth adjacent to the well to create an access tunnel but it has been a massive job, with every day bringing a new anouncement that they were nearly through but then more rocks getting in the way. The Spanish press in
particular has been following the mission hour by hour and posting bulletins on the social network, such is the interest and empathy for Julen’s family who have already lost one child. It has never been specified if the rescuers have heard any noise or detected a heat presence but at one stage, toys that Julen were playing with were found, together with traces of his hair. The drilling down into the rocks had reached at least 200ft on Tuesday and a special cage has been designed to bring Julen out, sadly, his body rather than alive. Rescuers say they have retained hope every day as miracles have happened elsewhere and he could have been in an air pocket with water. One of the drilling machines is amongst the most powerful in Spain.
They say further movements can be expected as part of living on volcanic islands and have stressed that although the quake was the biggest recorded for 30 years, it was nowhere near strong enough to cause any sort of damage to property or buildings. All the stations of the Canary Seismic Network (C7) located in Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Palma, El Hierro and Lanzarote registered the magnitude 4.4 earthquake, which occurred between Tenerife and Gran Canaria, at 06:36:51 on Friday January 18th. It was widely felt in Tenerife and in some locations of Gran Canaria. The seismic focus or depth of the earthquake was five kilometres. The tectonic activity related to the fault between Tenerife and Gran Canaria is being attributed as the most probable cause. A spokesman for Involcan, the Canarian Volcanological Institute, said: “Remember that earthquakes of this magnitude have been recorded in the recent past between Tenerife and Gran Canaria such as the
magnitude 5.2 occurred on May 9, 1989; therefore, it is normal that they register now and in the future.” Comments have been made on the social networks about an alleged “cover-up” related to the earthquake, claiming it was NOT a tectonic seismic event but a long-term seismic event . Involcan says this is not true, commenting: “The characteristics of the seismic events of long period that are observed through a seismogram are very different from those of the tectonic events (low frequencies, soft start and small amplitude). The seismic event recorded between Tenerife and Gran
One of the testing stations Canaria has the same characteristics as the tectonic earthquakes that are registered daily throughout the world. There is no reason to relate this earthquake with possible magmatic activity in its vicinity.” The experts have also stressed there are more than
In addition, Involcan is developing new methods for the detection, location and characterisation of volcanic seismic activitywith the objective of improving the security of Canarian society and boosting research.