Talk:Teide
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[edit] Eruption
if this erupts willl it effect every one in the world or will it only effect tenerife The Sunday Times reported in January that there would definitely be an eruption of Teide by the end of 2005.
Has there been any activity recently to confirm this prediction?
- Don't believe what you read in newspapers!! - MPF 14:03, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
- January 2006 now, and no, it didn't erupt in 2005 . . . MPF 01:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and it won't for a long time. Yes, "El Teíde" is only dormant, but the peak itself has not errupted for thousands of years. The last acticity in the "Caňadas" was in 1909, but that was only a small peak "downhill" (as is said in the text already). Tje last eruption of a volcano on Tenerife which claimed lives was in 1706. A small peak on the northern ridge erupted and burried the merchants village of Garachico, which has never recovered its importance in the intercontinental trades.
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- There was a spate of seismic activity from April 2004 to early 2005 caused by injection of magma below Teide's NW flank. Many expected it to erupt, but obviously it didn't. There is, however, a significant body of molten magma below the volcano. OrbitalPete 12:49, 25 January 2007 (GMT).
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- At the upper cable station on Teide, about 200 m from the summit, there are information boards pointing out lava flows from the 14th Century. See also http://www.islandvulnerability.org/canarias.html which lists more recent eruptions. Booshank 02:20, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Personally I think that Teide is going to erupt in the next 100-200 years and that people should not take lightly the power the mountain contains. If there are any disturbing signs a.k.a a rock bulge like what was seen at Mount St Helens then no tourists should be allowed near the volcano. I also think that a couple of hundered years of being dormant could lead to a VEI 5 or 6 Eruption.
