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False color ASTER image of the southern tip of El Hierro, taken on November 1, 2011. You can clearly see the small scoria cones on the island itself and the submarine vent is likely very similar to these cones. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory.
It has now been a little over a week since the submarine eruption to the south of El Hierro in the Canary Islands peaked. Since then, the activity on the southside has waned significantly, no longer the bubbling cauldron we observed last week UPDATE: Nix that – bubbling has returned to the sea off of La Restriga. However, as many images can...

Even for a master,...





