This science news service of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) has highlighted it among the thousands of scientific papers presented at the AGU 2016 Fall Meeting held recently in the city of San Francisco. 

ITER researchers and scientific collaborators of the Volcanology Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) lead and participate in a research project whose preliminary results have been recently presented at the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world that has been held in San Francisco for nearly 50 years; the American Geophysical Union meeting (AGU Fall Meeting).

This research is related to a possible hidden pattern in volcanic activity of fractal nature that could be the key to predicting volcanic activity. The results presented at the AGU 2016 Fall Meeting have attracted the attention of the scientific news service INSIDE SCIENCE published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), highlighting it among the thousands of research papers that have been presented in the mentioned congress recently held in the city of San Francisco.

These results have been obtained thanks to the scientific cooperation work among researchers of Bionerics Research (Gran Canaria), Ohio University (USA), Nagoya University (Japan), National Institute of Geophysics And Volcanology (Italy), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER); being the majority of them collaborators of the INVOLCAN

It is a novel approach to the volcanic phenomenon, where a possible new hidden signal has been discovered in different volcanic manifestations such as seismicity, gas emission and deformation; among other.The signal has a specific waveform that according to this research work is present in different volcanic systems of the planet, and when the signal is repeated at different time scales, it is fractal and could be used as a new predictive method. This pattern was first detected in the recent volcanic eruption of El Hierro by the authors of this research paper.