The island of Tenerife has experienced a significant surge in its seismic-volcanic activity. Stations from the National Geographic Institute (IGN) and the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) have recorded a total of over 200 seismic movements since last weekend.
This episode of earthquakes, concentrated mainly during Sunday and early Monday, resembles one that occurred mid-last week but with greater energy this time. Despite the increased activity, experts from the IGN and INVOLCAN are issuing a message of calm. They emphasize that these are very low-intensity micro-earthquakes, imperceptible to the population, and do not increase the risk of a volcanic eruption in the short or medium term.
Instrumental monitoring data confirms that the majority of seismic foci are located in the southwestern sector of the Las Cañadas caldera. These events form a dense cluster of activity precisely on the west-southwest flank of the Teide-Pico Viejo volcanic complex.
The magnitudes of these earthquakes mostly range between a very slight 0.6 and 1.7 mbLg. The epicenters are massively distributed in the vicinity of the Northeast of Guía de Isora and the Northwest of Vilaflor de Chasna. Sporadic events have also been registered in adjacent areas such as Santiago del Teide, La Guancha, or Granadilla de Abona. The hypocenters are located very homogeneously within the Earth's crust, mostly at a depth of between 10 and 14 kilometers.
