Fires in houses affected by the original wash and landslides in Puerto Naos
This Monday the classroom activity will be maintained in all educational centers, except in the CEO Juan XXIII
The technical director of the Pevolca of the Government of the Canary Islands, Miguel Ángel Morcuende, updated tonight the situation of the La Palma eruption, informing that at 8:00 p.m. there had been several fires in houses affected by the original laundry and a detachment in the access of Puerto Naos.
In addition, the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands also announced that this Monday the classroom activity will continue in all educational centers in the area affected by the volcanic crisis, except for CEO Juan XXIII, who continues with online teaching until new notification
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La Palma dawns with a fifth lava source
La Palma has dawned with a new collapse this past dawn in the secondary cone
The sixth week since the beginning of the eruption of the volcano Cumbre Vieja de La Palma has dawned with a new collapse this past dawn in the secondary cone , a demonstration that the activity does not rest and that there is no indication that it will end soon your activity.
In the last hours the volcano has reconfigured its mouths several times, new flows have been generated and greater magnitude and frequencies have been generated in the earthquakes registered at superficial and also intermediate levels .
The volcano has five lava-emitting sources, as well as 10 streams that are branching out and continue to descend towards the sea and towards the neighborhoods of nearby towns. Neighbors remain expectant about the advance of these flows and hope that they do not increase the enormous damage and devastation already caused.
Of the infrastructure damaged by lava, 2,143 have been destroyed and 127 have suffered damage . On the roads there are 65 kilometers of destroyed roads and another 3.5 kilometers that could be damaged. The height of the ash and gas columns was 3,200 meters yesterday.
The air quality also deteriorated on Sunday and the atmosphere had received more than 36,100 tons of sulfur dioxide, far from the between 100 and 50 tons that would not pose a threat to the battered palm population. A citizenry that continues to fight against the ashes that invade a large part of the island and that awaits the entry into operation of the mobile desalination plants that will allow to save the battered agriculture, especially the banana farms, the basis of the economy of the Canary Island.
Nor does the seismic activity cease, which increased with more than 80 tremors registered yesterday, almost 150 since last Friday, some above 5 degrees and that were felt in the neighboring islands.
Experts do not dare to predict how long the eruption or the behavior of the streams may still last, the last of which runs south of the volcanic cone, after another collapse that occurred on Saturday, and threatens the Las Manchas area and its cemetery . The lava also surrounded the town of La Laguna where a dormant tongue reached 14 meters in height yesterday. It could advance by razing more houses or funneling into another stream to the sea and wiping out more farms.
Nor does the seismic activity cease, which increased with more than 80 tremors registered yesterday, almost 150 since last Friday, some above 5 degrees and that were felt in the neighboring islands.
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The La Palma volcano emits more lava and energy with earthquakes of great intensity
The laundry of the new fajana is the one that is receiving the most contribution
Last night new foci were opened to the west of the main cone of the La Palma volcano with a high rate of lava emission and the appearance of new centers is not ruled out and, given the emission of lava, rupture is not ruled out partial of main cone '. With these words, María José Blanco, head of the Geophysical Center in the Canary Islands of the National Geographic Institute (IGN), summarized the situation of the eruption today.
This situation is also accompanied by greater seismicity. In fact, Blanco explained, earthquakes are occurring especially between 10 and 15 kilometers deep. This higher rate of energy release translates into higher magnitudes and intensities and it is not ruled out, the expert added, that "earthquakes of intensity six" are recorded .
These are also, in the opinion of Miguel Ángel Morcuende, Pevolca's technical director, the "relevant Events" of the last 24 hours. "The modification and reconfiguration of the main cone of the eruption and an enormous amount of lava moving in the western area, occupying the first or original wash and the 4 while the rest are quite slowed down and with little contribution." Morcuende pointed out that there are lava canals that are supplying energy to streams 1 and 4, so "there is still a contribution to the lower island in Los Guirres, to the lava delta" , while stream 10 has remained "very stopped" in the Corazoncillo area. At the moment, in addition, he is still "waiting" for what the future of casting 8 will be and he hoped that it would take a "southwesterly direction" if it receives another contribution of lava.
This new "reconfiguration" of the streams, with lava flow to the west, caused "to fill in some parts that were on the island and that caused damage" in some buildings that were in those areas, Morcuende added.
As detailed and with data from the cadastre, there are 1,287 buildings destroyed, 1,036 are for residential use , 133 agricultural, 64 industrial, 30 for leisure and hospitality, 11 for public use and 14 for other uses.
It is also remarkable, Morcuende agreed, “that the tremor has intensified very remarkably. We clearly have a large lava outlet and this has caused the repositioning of the material in depth and that is reflected in the tremor . This is happening, he said, since yesterday at 4.30 p.m. when a magnitude 4 Earthquake was felt.
Blanco advanced that it is possible that the fine ash reaches El Hierro, but that there are good conditions for aeronautics and the air quality is also favorable. The deformation of the terrain maintains the same pattern and the volcano emits 53,600 tons of sulfur dioxide per day (an underestimated value), which is greater than in previous days, and 803 tons of carbon dioxide.
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To Jand, thanks for all the updates, much appreciated. Pam xx
You are welcome Pam and thank you for your message xx
Latest update courtesy of Enrique.
16:15 25/10/2021 h Canary Islands.- LA PALMA ISLAND ERUPTION.- LESS BAD THEY PULLED THE DOGS-THREE COLADES OF LAVA IN MARCHA, NORTH, CENTER AND SOUTH. - There's a new central flow, which I've called 13 that runs over the old ones, with three arms. His origin needs to be looked for in the latest cone collapses., the first of them, the one I called 13 A, has arrived at the kipuka where the dogs were and has covered their northernmost part. In case it were little, the 13 B arm has covered some remaining kipukas and is very wide and with a lot of lava going west and finally the 13 C that has destroyed other kipukas in the top of Paradise and Alcala street and continue westbound.
The Southern flow, which I called as laundry 12 (is a chronological order) we already met it from yesterday, it came out of the area of the new pyroclastic mouth further south and that has now stopped about 150 meters before photovoltaic central, good news for sure.
There was also another flow 11, running on the north edge and not that it stopped, but has climbed on top of the existing 10 and with the little material that comes to it, it's practically standing.
And we're going with the one I'm most concerned about right now, the flow 10, which is fencing the Laguna and which is worryingly swelling as it continues to be well fed with flow coming down the north from the polygon and in some cases already inflated up to 20 meters tall, pressing on buildings and trying to widen in several areas.
And another flow that is still active, is the 9 flow that comes down to the area of the Mountain of the Laguna, and that has also been inflated a little bit, which must not be removed and which had a small widening ago 2 days in the south side of La Laguna Mountain.
The tremor continues to rise, although it has declined from yesterday, the opening of new mouths and collapses shows that it continues to lower system pressure in general, with a small new drop in deformation, I thought it would rise, but the data is the data and go down. SO2 is around 30.000 tons / day, very very high, which assures us it will be there for quite some time. Then I'll talk about seismicity and something else.
Cheer up and greetings. (Enrique)
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More lava flows.
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A new mouth generates “great avenues” of lava on La Palma
NEW SPOTLIGHTS
The volcano, on its 36th day, shows "very violent" activity in the central mouth, according to Involcan
10/25/2021 18:35Updated 10/25/2021 7:11 PM
The La Palma eruption has entered its sixth week today and continues with full vigor. Today at noon a new mouth has been opened that adds to the new emission sources that were opened yesterday Sunday on the west flank of the main cone and that has generated "enormous" lava emissions that cause the streams to grow in height and amplitude .
As described today by the technical director of the Volcanic Risk Prevention Plan (Pevolca), Miguel Ángel Morcuende, the volcano is emitting “great avenues” of lava that cover the lava flows in red and run down the slope, in some cases causing striking overflows . The activity of the volcano today, on the 36th of the eruption, is "very violent" in the central mouth, as the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcan) has pointed out on social networks.
The director of the National Geographic Institute in the Canary Islands, María José Blanco, has made it clear today that new sources of emission can be opened but always in the same area. He has also pointed out the risk of the main cone breaking again, due to the instability of the material on which it sits. This could generate new lava flows.
The good news is that the laundry that has received the greatest contribution in the last few hours has been the original one, that is, the one that gave rise to the fajana in the sea and that continues to be fed today. In its course with this powerful flow, it has covered islets or kipukas that had survived the lava, causing these properties to burn. It is also receiving lava contribution, one of its appendages, specifically the language that remained in Todoque.
The rest of the washes, eight, are practically stopped, including the one that remained just 80 meters from the cliff in Tazacorte and the one that remained at the gates of the La Laguna school and that, if it resumes its path, threatens five more neighborhoods . Morcuende once again showed his confidence that if he advances again, he will do so in the southwest, affecting agricultural farms and not inhabited areas. The new language that was formed over the weekend in the Las Manchas neighborhood has also slowed down, just before a photovoltaic installation that precedes the cemetery in this area.
The intensity of the eruption is felt in an intermediate seismicity - from 10 to 15 kilometers - that is increasing, as well as the emissions of sulfur dioxide, which yesterday reached 53,600 tons per day. The greater frequency of earthquakes and their intensity - it is expected that it could reach six - has caused landslides in the last hours that require extreme precautions.
The rest of the flows, eight, are practically stopped
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