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We recently went for a walking holiday on El Hierro - which is a small volcanic island in the Canaries not far from La Palma where Cumbre Vieja is located. El
by arethuza 8y ago
We recently went for a walking holiday on El Hierro - which is a small volcanic island in the Canaries not far from La Palma where Cumbre Vieja is located.
El Hierro, in addition to being generally lovely, has a particularly spectacular feature - a big chunk of the island is missing leaving behind El Golfo (The Gulf) - which is where a 150–180 km3 landslide(s) occurred leaving behind a flat bottomed area with a surrounding 1000m escarpment. The old paths up this escarpment make for interesting walking...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro#Landslides_and_tsunami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro#Landslides_and_tsuna...
- throwaway5752 8y agohttps://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2013/12/13/canary-islands-tsunami/ https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2013/12/13/canary-island... Sounds like an amazing site to have visited, but just to be clear, this is not the kind of volcanic tsunami the linked article is talking about and the threat of them is exaggerated.
- arethuza 8y agoThe article does mention "Flank failures and sector collapses" - which sounds like El Hierro to me? (Mind you, there is no evidence that the El Golfo event actually caused any tsunamis).