The scientific committee of the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Response for Volcanic Risk of the Canary Islands (Pevolca) has met in Tenerife after detecting a low-intensity seismic signal in several stations around Teide, but there are no indications of an eruption on the island in the short or medium termIthaiza Domínguez, director in the Canary Islands of the National Geographic Institute (IGN), said after the Pevolca meeting that the signal, which began at 8:45 AM and ended more or less at 10:15 AM, has been detected in the western area of the Cañadas del Teide, at about 12 kilometers deep and has not been felt by the populationThe past weekend a series of seismic events had been registered on the island of Tenerife, a situation that has been repeating since 2023 without this new episode implying any news regarding an eventual eruption, which is not expected in the short or medium term"The deformation continues to be maintained, but it changes nothing in the state of the volcanic system's activity compared to last year," Domínguez specified.
