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Could Mount Teide erupt on Tenerife?
Mount Teide on Tenerife is less than 80 miles away where the crow flies from the vent at La Palma and is also an active volcano—although its last eruption was in 1909, from the El Chinyero vent in Santiago Ridge. So what risks could Mount Teide erupt in the wake of the eruption of La Palma?
Too low, it seems. According to Robin George Andrew, a volcanologist who spoke to the Guardian, volcanoes “are not like bombs: they don’t explode into each other, even if they are fairly close together.” He says that if there was a volcanic eruption on another island it would be just a coincidence, and “wonderful and improbable” at the time.
Although the eruption of La Palma volcano won’t erupt from Mount Teide, will Tenerife erupt at some point? No one can say for sure, but it seems likely that Mount Teide will erupt in the future, even though volcanic eruptions have only occurred at a rate of four to six every 1,000 years in the past 30,000 years. Volcanic eruptions were low risk.
There is currently an active fumarole at the summit of Mount Teide, emitting sulfur dioxide and other gases and in 2003 there was an increase in seismic activity and a crack opening on the northeastern side of the volcano, although no eruption occurred. As always with volcanoes, the best thing is to listen to what the experts have to say.
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