Teide is having one of its seismic swarms. PEVOLCA experts met this past week and reportedly (Spanish) decided that it would not lead to an eruption. Spain’s IGN goes into more detail in this tweet thread (Spanish).
This repost is now also the Tenerife update page.
Updates will be beneath the original post text, and here are some information links:
- Spain’s National Geographic Institute (Spanish)
- Toulouse VAAC
- Global Volcanism Program page
- Last but not least, this X account is an unofficial but excellent source of information on Canary Island volcanoes. The link is to their information page, and it’s worth visiting even when no eruption looms!
Actualidad Volcánica de Tenerife.
Hemos creado un espacio para que tengas todo lo que necesitas para el seguimiento sereno y contrastado de la situación volcánica. #Tenerife #Teide #volcan@VolcansCanarias
⬇️⬇️⬇️https://t.co/4rNVEjo1Hh pic.twitter.com/TRwKItelz0— Volcanes de Canarias (@VolcansCanarias) February 18, 2026
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Original guest-video post from 2021:
Instead of stressing over the hazards of Cumbre Vieja on La Palma Island, let’s go to another of the Canary Islands — Tenerife — and watch the moon set behind tourists who have climbed up Teide Volcano (highest peak in the Atlantic area) to watch sunrise.
Per APOD, the moonset, while done with telephoto lens, is filmed in real time.
The Canary Islands may have formed from a mantle-plume hotspot, like the Hawaiian Islands, which of course are way out in the Pacific Ocean.
The Canaries, on the other hand, sit very close to Africa’s western coast, which makes their origin controversial.
But all that volcanism, at latitudes where the weather is spring-like all year round, make for some gorgeous scenery.
Take Tenerife, for instance:
It’s a volcanic jumble!
Featured image: Marc Veraart, CC BY-ND 2.0.
Flight To Wonder 