Spain:''Underwater volcano may create 8th Canary Island''

from ansamed.....

"Volcanologists monitoring seismic activity in the area for months say that the eruption of an underwater volcano near El Hierro could result in an eighth island for the Canary Island archipelago. ''There has been an enormous quantity of seismic activity around the island,'' said the coordinator of the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute (Involcan) Nemesio Perez in statements made to the media"..........READ MORE

Photo Essay: Chile Volcano

more stunning pics from the atlantic........

...................."On Saturday, a volcano in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle chain of south-central Chile erupted after lying dormant for more than 50 years. The government evacuated several thousand residents as Puyehue threw ash more than 6 miles (10 km) into the sky, pushing the plume toward neighboring Argentina. Authorities had already put the area around the volcano on alert after a flurry of earthquakes earlier on Saturday -- at one point, the tremors reached an average of 230 per hour. Collected here are a handful of spectacular photographs of the eruption this weekend and its effects in Chile and Argentina"..........................VIEW THEM HERE

Chile volcano eruption - in pictures

from the guardian....

"A volcano dormant for decades erupted in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain in south-central Chile, belching an ash cloud more than six miles high over the Andes and into a ski resort in Argentina"..............VIEW PICS HERE