• Eruption Concern about the increase in seismicity on La Palma: "In this phase, it is expected that it will decrease"

  • Interactive graphic This is how lava flows are progressing

Activity on the

La Palma volcano

seems to increase every day. In the last hours there has been a

new collapse in the cone

and an

earthquake of magnitude 4.8

that has also been noticed in other islands. Seismicity is another indication of the good health of the volcano in Cumbre Vieja, since it is the second highest magnitude since the eruption began.

According to the latest calculation of the European Copernicus satellite system, there are

908.2 hectares destroyed and 2,162 buildings destroyed, in

addition to another 124 possibly affected.

Although

the end of the eruption is "far off",

as the technical director of the Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan (Pevolca), Miguel Ángel Morcuende, has admitted, the different administrations are working on the reconstruction process.

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The elevation of the terrain and the emission of gases in the last hours presage that there is a volcano for a while

The elevation of the terrain in the vicinity of the eruptive center in Cumbre Vieja, of 10 centimeters in the last 24 hours, and the high rates of sulfur dioxide emission -40,800 tons according to the last measurement- presage that there is a volcano for a while on La Palma .

A forecast, that of the scientific committee that monitors the day to day on the Cumbre Vieja ridge, when this Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Teneguía eruption, which lasted 24 days, from October 26 to November 18, 1971, and whose runoffs occupied 276 hectares.

The deformation of the soil that worries the experts could anticipate an increase in the lava channel or the opening or closing of some point of emission, always within the exclusion zone, as explained by the director of the National Geographic Institute in the Canary Islands, María José White.

This happened on the other two occasions during the eruptive process that began on September 19 in which scientists detected this phenomenon, and now they will check the accuracy of the data in case there could be any distortion in the measurements.

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