With the El Hierrro activity still very much ongoing I thought that a general volcano thread could be stickied or kept alive to post updates as a few other events have also caught my attention today. Would it be possible to sticky this thread? On a different location away from the Canaries, and possibly not yet of significance there has been an earthquake swarm in the Katla area of Iceland this evening. Perhaps something to watch. Further afield there has also been another eruption in Chile at the Hudson volcano in the past 24hrs. It is not a volcano I have come across before but I think it may be one of the more active ones in the region. I understand if there is not enough interest to warrant a dedicated sticky thread but I thought it may be preferable to me starting random threads every time a volcano burps!

Good idea

In terms of current activity, another volcano I doubt anyone has heard of before deserves mention:

Scientists investigate riddle of rapidly expanding volcano Uturunco

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/eruptions 

http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/ 

Here's another link to seismic activity for Iceland.

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/

When I was there last month I kept asking the locals if they expected further activity and they all seemed nonplussed.If Katla does let go I'd be very tempted to go back if the airspace is open.

Interesting footage of the Chilean volcano.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15493442

Hopefully not - it'd spell disaster for the US East Coast.

That's good to hear. Certainly is interesting, I'll be keeping a close eye on El Hierro.

El Hierro Volcano (Canary Islands) : Red alert – an impressive new stain forms in front of the coast

Thing's appear to be hotting up, see below link.

http://earthquake-report.com/2011/09/25/el-hierro-canary-islands-spain-volcanic-risk-alert-increased-to-yellow/

(Been updated since)......New submarine vent to open in the El Golfo bay ? + today’s Jacuzzi images

Update 05/11 – 16:51 UTC :
Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias has published 2 new images taken with the helicopter who was seen by Joke this morning. They are still showing a strong emitting vent in the Las Calmas sea. If the eruption in this vent is magmatic, than the depth must have been seriously decreased since the eruption began. It is hard however to know this,  as the authorities are NOT disclosing the geographic positions of the vents.

Eruptive Jacuzzi location on November 5 2011 - image courtesy Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias

Eruptive Jacuzzi location on November 5 2011 - image courtesy Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias

Update 05/11 – 16:35 UTC :
IGN announced that they expect a new vent to open or already opened in the El Golfo bay, but at a far bigger depth than at the La Restinga coast. The main  eruptive vent is still located to the south in the Las Calmas sea. (ER : let’s hope that the poor images of the NASA satellites will help us out in detecting an eventual coloring of the water).
IGN also said that last night 4.4 magnitude earthquake was perceived much stronger by the population because of the  close distance to the beach. The earlier big quake was weakened by the water masses.

Amazing pic contained in that report, I'll will be keeping on monitoring this thread as this whole episode seems fascinating.

Thanks 

http://www.canarias7.es/fotos/p3/8794.jpg 

Wow, scary. Amazing if some new land mass appears.

It certainly looks like some Terra Nova(or nueva tierra) on the way.
Very exciting and a dream come true for a wide range of scientists.

There was a magnitude 4.6 Earthquake overnight, the strongest so far. It was felt in La Palma and Tenerife (and La Gomera as well, I would imagine). It was centered on El Golfo bay, which is not the location of the existing eruption off La Restinga. This would strongly suggest that there may be another centre of eruption soon.

http://earthquake-report.com/2011/09/25/el-hierro-canary-islands-spain-volcanic-risk-alert-increased-to-yellow/

Worldwide webcams of volcanoes.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/volcano-webcams-of-the-world#etna