La Palma volcano, last minute live | The lava that feeds the new delta flows at a speed of 10 meters per second, the highest on record.

Starting tomorrow

, a frontal structure

is expected to enter

and later an Atlantic trough that will produce precipitations that may be of a strong nature, leaving up to

in 12 hours, mainly in the eastern part of the city. Island.

The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has already activated the yellow warning (risk) based on this forecast and experts warn of possible landslides due to the accumulation of ash from the

and rain.

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07.00.

The lava that feeds the new delta of the volcano in Tazacorte descends at 10 m / s through La Laguna

The river of molten rock that feeds the new

delta of

the coast of Tazacorte, in

, descends at a speed of 10 meters per second as it passes by the mountain of

, its last major obstacle before plunging down the slope down towards the cliffs, Involcán reports.

The Volcanological Institute of the

has published on its Twitter account a video recorded from the mountain of La Laguna in which it is appreciated how the laundry flows lightly at the foot of that elevation.

The speed attributed to it by its scientists (10 meters / second) is

so far in the flows at that distance from the cone, where the advance used to be measured in a few tens of meters per hour, sometimes less.

Ten meters per second equals 36 kilometers per hour.

This means that streams like this one can cover the distance between the volcano cone and the cliffs of Tazacorte (6.5 kilometers) in about ten minutes, assuming that the lava maintains that speed constantly throughout its journey. .

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