@benirevolc.bsky.social
Volcano Geodesy PhD student at Uni of Bristol Earth Sci 🌋🛰 Advisor for GeoTenerife 🇮🇨 | Keen MTBer 🚵 DM’s open-Get in touch! 💬 He/Him. Views my own Posts-Volcanoes/La Palma/GIS/RS New around here, getting to know the place :) Twitter/X: @BensVolcanology
I’m biased towards volcano books but would highly recommend any of these three for general interest!
As ever, all our sources are archived in our open-access La Palma News Article Archive, with 3,300+ news articles covering pre-,co-, and post- eruptive periods in both 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇸
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
And all previous reconstruction updates are here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
🧵 5/5
Science:
- New study shows continued creep on faults close to the eruption site
- New seismicity-based method for forecasting eruptions developed in La Palma highlighted by the UNDRR Office
- Students take part in water quality monitoring following the eruption
🧵 4/5
Aid:
- Delivery of aid for lost second homes starting
- €400k to help rebuild homes in Los Llanos
- €0.20/l fuel subsidy continues to aid economic recovery
- 91 impacted businesses receive aid for day-to-day expenses
- Demands for aid as guaranteed in the 'Volcano Law' passed in October
🧵 3/5
Reconstruction:
- Work on LP-2, a major road across the lava flows, has begun
- 152 licenses to recovery agricultural land now granted
- New waste transfer and recycling plants being built to replace those lost in the eruption
- La Laguna school and football pitch rebuilding starting soon
🧵 2/5
Our latest January 2026 news roundup for reconstruction on #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption for @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories programme is now online: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec... 🇮🇨🌋
Lot's of progress to start 2026 in research, reconstruction and aid - here's a summary 🧵 1/5
We’re excited to share the latest COMET Annual Report! 🌍🌋🛰️
Dive into our 2024/2025 research highlights, science updates, and key activities across #EarthObservations, #Volcanism, #Earthquakes and #Tectonics.
🔗 comet.nerc.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Really cool summary of a recent paper in Geology (gift link 🎁): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/s...
Millions of people live within 100km of a volcano that has had at least one significant eruption. Yet the warning signs that signal a shift from mild activity to a high-impact eruption remain unclear. A major new £3.7M research project aims to change this... www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2...
Excuse the dramatic music on the original video, but incredible webcam footage of PDCs from Semeru progressively infilling a stream channel, looks like it happened to be in just the right place! 🌋
2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
Nice start to 2026, via stunning but *Baltic* conditions in the Cheviot Hills, Northumberland
It took a lot of effort but finally we are in La Palma!! Exposition about the deployment carried out by our 240 pax @csic.es Canary Islands team (largest Spanish research institution) that got together during the 2021 Tajogaite eruption doing research by sea, land and air. 🌋💪
COMET InSAR Training Workshop 2025 Resources Now Available!
📹 Full video recordings are live on the COMET YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0tb...
📊 Presentation slides and practical materials are available on GitHub: comet-licsar.github.io/ciw.html#com...
Following the #HayliGubbi eruption, our paper on the Erta Ale dike of Jun-Jul is finally out. InSAR, optical data and seismicity showed the temporal evolution of the intrusion and the interaction of magmatic sources, including a sill inflation in Hayli Gubbi. @earth-science.bsky.social #geoscience
Our preliminary analysis of the satellite observations of the #hayligubbi #eruption is now available online: comet.nerc.ac.uk/event-respon.... Details of the eruption onset, SO2 emissions and precursory deformation.
Activity at Hayli Gubbi began in July when there was an eruption at Erte Ale. Magma propagated 30 km south passing under Hayli Gubbi. Since then, there has been a small plume, quasi-continuous SO2 emissions and uplift. Details in @uk-comet.bsky.social event response report: tinyurl.com/y3nfdfj8
Thanks Tim. @planet.com imagery from Nov 24 show some subsidence in the southern half of the Erta Ale caldera after the #HayliGubbi eruption (plus widespread ash deposits).
Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈
ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do.
#SpaceForAll
As ever, all of our sources can be found in our open-access archive here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
And all our previous reconstruction updates can be read here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
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Other updates:
- Court appeal approved in case for making pre-eruption meeting recordings publicly available
- Cabildo urges changes to Spain's contracts law to streamline reconstruction projects
Video of the latest reconstruction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UP...
🧵5/6
Science:
- EU-Modex project hosted in Tenerife, including practice eruption simulation exercises
- First results of ISVOLCAN studying health impacts of the eruption have been published
- Further marine recovery on the lava flows shown by the DELTA project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPpQ...
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Aid:
- Reconstruction commissioner has maintained the 60% income tax reduction, to revive the economy, will be reapplied by the end of 2025
- €6.5 million in aid for farmers available for 9 months, but yet to be distributed
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Reconstruction:
- Citizen-led 'Volcano Law' to guarantee full compensation for those affected by future eruptions, was approved
- 120 reconstruction licenses granted for homes or farms in Tazacorte
- LP-2 road recovery has overcome a significant delay in its plans
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September was a big month for reconstruction in #LaPalma following the 2021 eruption; 4th anniversary, new laws, research papers, and an eruption drill
Here are some snippets from my @geotenerife.bsky.social's #VolcanoStories update, available in full here: geotenerife.com/la-palma-rec...
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Very much appreciated the end of this dedication in a PhD thesis I came across this morning!
Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Another exciting PhD opportunity with @isobelyeo.bsky.social, me and others on Mapping Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in Earth’s Most Explosive Volcanoes…
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...