Last Thursday (14), an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 struck the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. The new quake is believed to be the third strongest recorded since the start of the K eruptions. Cambre Vieja Volcano in September. Since then, a “lava tsunami” has continued to flow from the volcano, forcing 300 residents of the cities of Tzacourt and La Laguna to leave their homes.
The Canary Islands Volcanoes Institute unveiled a video with images of lava flows created on Friday (15). “Today, one of our teams managed to film a real ‘lava tsunami’; incredible speed and flow in the lava channel”, he wrote in the video description. According to Vicente Soler, a researcher at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Scientificas (CSIC), the volcano Carving out sediments dating back to the time of the island’s formation 2 million years ago.
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In the footage, we see magma – whose temperature easily reaches 1,075 °C – flowing into the viscous, viscous city of La Palma. According to information received from the EU Copernicus Emergency Management Service Program, an area of more than 7.3 square kilometers was submerged by lava. The local government estimates that, since the eruption began, about 7,000 people have had to leave their homes and evacuate.
The island has about 85,000 residents and, so far, there are no records of victims of the volcano’s eruption. However, officials are concerned about the amount of sulfur dioxide, as clouds of sulfur dioxide can cause respiratory problems – and they have already reached territories in the Caribbean and neighboring European countries.
Source: science alert, euronews, BBC
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