São Jorge volcano, Azores Islands, Portugal: news & activity updates

Fri, 8 Apr 2022, 06:56 The seismic swarm under the island's northwestern rift zone has decreased a lot during the past days, but it is still ongoing at lower levels. Read all Wed, 6 Apr 2022, 20:07A seismic swarm beneath the W half of São Jorge began at 1605 on 19 March, with earthquakes along the Manadas volcanic fissure system between Velas (S side of the island) and Fajã do Ouvidor (N coast). On 31 March there were 714 seismic events detected, according to a preliminary analysis of seismic records. As the week progressed, the number of daily events fluctuated from 397 on 1 April to 592 on 5 April; magnitudes were relatively low. Read all Fri, 1 Apr 2022, 18:38 The earthquake swarm continues but with reduced intensity. Only about 10 quakes above magnitude 2.0 occurred in the past 24 hours, although micro-seismic activity remains elevated, and seems to be increasing in the past hours. Read all Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 19:54A seismic swarm beneath the W half of São Jorge began at 1605 on 19 March, with earthquakes along the Manadas volcanic fissure system between Velas (S side of the island) and Fajã do Ouvidor (N coast). CIVISA raised the Alert Level to V2 and then V3 (on a scale of V0-V6) during the morning of 20 March, and finally to V4 that afternoon. On 22 March Proteção Civil e Bombeiros dos Açores noted that, although no official evacuations had been issued, vulnerable people such as patients in the Velas health center were being moved to other locations on the island. Read all Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 09:05 The seismic swarm continues with the first occurrence of a widely felt magnitude 4 quake last night at 9:56 pm local time, the strongest so-far in the current swarm. The quake was about 10 times larger than the previous largest-so-far quake, a magnitude 3.3 event at 6.41 pm on 19 March. Read all Tue, 29 Mar 2022, 07:08According to latest calculations, the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) estimated that as much as 20 million cubic meters of magma have intruded under the island of São Jorge since last March 19. Read all Mon, 28 Mar 2022, 15:29 While hundreds of people have already left the island, especially from Velas, authorities seem to take the situation very serious. Emergency plans are being activated and the army is setting up camps in case people need to evacuate their homes. Read all Mon, 28 Mar 2022, 15:14Preliminary satellite-based radar data confirm that a section of island's northern part, roughly corresponding to where the recent quakes have been occurring, has experienced uplift. Read all