New Seismic Activity Under Tenerife: IGN Registers Movements in Izaña and Las Cañadas

The National Geographic Institute has detected volcano-tectonic and hybrid seismic events, but rules out an increased risk of eruption in the short term.

Generic image of a seismograph recording seismic activity.
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Generic image of a seismograph recording seismic activity.

The National Geographic Institute (IGN) has confirmed new and intense seismic-volcanic activity under the island of Tenerife, with registrations in Izaña and Las Cañadas del Teide.

The calm of the Canarian subsoil has been disturbed once again. The IGN has detected a series of seismic movements over the past weekend and early Monday morning, concentrated in two strategic points of the island's geography: the Izaña area and the western zone of Las Cañadas del Teide.
The activity began on Saturday with a low-magnitude seismic series in Izaña. The automatic system recorded 16 earthquakes, of which eleven were precisely located by analysts. These tremors occurred at depths between 3 and 10 kilometers, with magnitudes ranging from 1 to 1.9 on the Richter scale. IGN experts classify them as volcano-tectonic events, similar to those observed between May and November 2025, although the peak of activity has been recorded recently.
During the early hours of Monday, between 00:10 and 00:30, seismographs detected a different phenomenon in Las Cañadas del Teide. Two low-frequency pulses and several seismic events known as “hybrid” were detected, totaling 38 events in just twenty minutes. These movements, identified as ‘LP events’ (Long Period), are similar to those that kept the scientific community on edge between February and March of this year, though with shorter duration and amplitude on this occasion. Only three of these events have been manually located at depths between 12 and 13 kilometers.

"This activity, composed of hybrid seismic events accompanied by long-period signals, does not increase the danger of eruption in the short or medium term on the island of Tenerife."

IGN · National Geographic Institute
Despite the concern these data may generate, the IGN has assured that this activity does not increase the risk of an eruption in the short or medium term in Tenerife. None of the earthquakes have been felt by the population due to their low magnitude and depth. Scientists have indicated that current data are provisional and that a more detailed analysis could increase the total number of detected events. Monitoring in the Teide area is constant, and although these processes are common in active volcanic systems, the IGN maintains real-time monitoring to detect any change in the pattern of signals, something that, for now, has not been observed.