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occurred. As a result of the Cumbre Vieja eruption, over 5,000 of the island’s inhabitants had to evacuate, significantly decreasing casualties. Still, more than 1300 homes and 1500 utility buildings were damaged and continuous magma flow stalled repair efforts for weeks.
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However, this hypothesis has been scrutinized for periods of up to several million years of a lack of volcanic activity between islands.
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The 2011–2012 submarine eruption off El Hierro, Canary Islands: New lessons in oceanic island growth and volcanic crisis management
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hypothesis on Canary hotspot formation proposes how the current-day Canary islands rested above a province of
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eruption, the volcano has remained very active, as since October 2017 until the 2021 eruption alone, nine
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Troll, Valentin R.; Carracedo, Juan Carlos (2016), Troll, Valentin R.; Carracedo, Juan Carlos (eds.),
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on September 20, 2021, over 25,000 earthquakes were recorded starting on September 10. Since the 1971
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Negredo, Ana M.; van Hunen, Jeroen; RodrĂ­guez-GonzĂĄlez, Juan; Fullea, Javier (2022).
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then shifted the plate the archipelago rests on over a stationary mantle plume
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movements beneath the island. This resulted in fears of an imminent
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on the ocean floor. Eruptions continued until March 2012.
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eruptions remain the most recent Canarian eruptions.
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beginning about 70 million years ago. The underwater
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Index


hotspot
Canary Islands
Africa
mantle plume
El Hierro
Cumbre Vieja
mantle plume
tholeiitic magma
Triassic Period
Central Atlantic Magmatic Province
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
African Plate
island
El Hierro
tremors
magma
volcanic eruption
fissure

Cumbre Vieja
La Palma
TeneguĂ­a
earthquake swarms
Mantle plume
2011–12 El Hierro eruption
2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption
Geology of the Canary Islands

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