The eruption has been a little bit today, at least at the surface, while internal activity remains similar. Lava fountaining activity at the vents continues, but less intense compared to the past days. The ash and steam plume reached only little more than 1,000 m altitude today, although this is partly due to stronger eastern winds that push the plume down and over the ocean.
Lava effusion continues, but it is difficult to estimate the amount erupted as most of it is going into the tube system.
As inflation is picking up again, there is a possibility that more lava is being stored at depth than currently erupted, and a new surge of lava output is likely to occur in the near future to make up for the current drop.
The lava flows that erupted from the new fissure, which had opened Thursday evening less than 1000 m south of the main cone, with one of the effusive vents appearing right next to an abandoned house, seemed no longer or very little active in the latest assessment of the scientific monitoring team.
However, (at least as of yesterday afternoon when the latest reliable information is available), lava continued to aliment various other flow arms labelled 5, 6, 7, 9, mostly in the area between La Laguna and Todoque. Only minor amounts of lava arrived at the northern ocean delta, while none currently seems to reach the larger southern delta.
The seismicity continues with no significant change compared to the past days. In total, 74 quakes were detected under the central area of Cumbre Vieja clustered in the two layers of around 10-15 km (15 quakes) and the others at depths beneath 30 km. The largest recent quake was a magnitude 3.5 event yesterday evening at 7.56 p.m.
The amplitude of the volcanic tremor signal continues at low to moderate levels with fluctuations.
More notably, however, is the inflation recorded at the station LP03, now reaching an uplift of 12 cm compared to the pre-eruption situation, with 6 cm added since yesterday.
According to the latest official data from the land registry, the lava flows have destroyed 1,506 buildings destroyed, of which 1,212 are for residential use, 161 for agricultural use, 67 for industrial use, 36 for hostels, 13 for public use and 16 for other uses.
However, when analyzing satellite-based imagery, the number is much higher: there are 2,786 buildings / constructions affected, 2,695 in their entirety and 91 partially. The discrepancy might at least in parts be due to the fact that many buildings have been destroyed not by lava flows, but the heavy ash deposits that reach several meters especially in some areas close to the vents.
