Volcanic activity in Canary Islands 2021

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The La Palma volcano has already forced 7,000 people to evict
An Earthquake of magnitude 4.5, the largest recorded so far, shakes the island, although it does not worry about its great depth

The La Palma volcano is merciless. The lava that gushed from the interior of the earth overflowed the main cone on Thursday. This phenomenon does not have to have major consequences, since the current will end up entering the main stream, according to the experts' forecast.

Some 300 people from Los Llanos de Aridane had to be evicted due to the dangerous advance of the lava, although many of them had already done so before. In just two days, some 1,100 residents have been evacuated, which raises the number of evicted people above 7,000.

The island registered more than fifty earthquakes, one of them of magnitude 4.5, the largest since the volcanic eruption began on the island. The Earthquake, according to the National Geographic Institute, had a depth of 37 kilometers and occurred around 1.30 in the morning in the town of Mazo.

Two seismic swarms remain active between 15 and 30 kilometers below the earth's crust and generate continuous earthquakes. According to experts, they can be indicators of the existence of magma reservoirs that are struggling to get out of their confinement. It is not ruled out that these deposits are connected to each other and feed the Cumbre Vieja eruption.

The La Palma volcano is merciless. The lava that gushed from the interior of the earth overflowed the main cone on Thursday. This phenomenon does not have to have major consequences, since the current will end up entering the main stream, according to the experts' forecast.

Some 300 people from Los Llanos de Aridane had to be evicted due to the dangerous advance of the lava, although many of them had already done so before. In just two days, some 1,100 residents have been evacuated, which raises the number of evicted people above 7,000.

The island registered more than fifty earthquakes, one of them of magnitude 4.5, the largest since the volcanic eruption began on the island. The Earthquake, according to the National Geographic Institute, had a depth of 37 kilometers and occurred around 1.30 in the morning in the town of Mazo.

Two seismic swarms remain active between 15 and 30 kilometers below the earth's crust and generate continuous earthquakes. According to experts, they can be indicators of the existence of magma reservoirs that are struggling to get out of their confinement. It is not ruled out that these deposits are connected to each other and feed the Cumbre Vieja eruption.

The most risky wash runs along the northwest face and is the one that caused the practical destruction of the Callejón de La Gata industrial estate and the warehouse where a supermarket of the Spar chain was located, as well as a Football field. However, the two appendages of this front, which is the one that prompted the authorities to decree the new evacuation, are losing steam because the lava is becoming more and more viscous and its advance slows down as it has to drag a large quantity of volcanic material. The streams have covered an area of ​​674.5 hectares of land, 34.2 more than the previous day, and every day they surprise volcanologists with their changing behavior.

Air quality is a factor of concern for the authorities, given that a Saharan air mass is expected to enter which, mixed with the volcano's particles, could force new confinements. This Thursday, all the airports in the Canary archipelago were operating, according to the airport manager AENA.


The deformation of the terrain has increased by more than five centimeters, according to the measurement made at one of the stations, bad news that removes the possibility of the volcano's extinction. Neither does the expulsion of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere remit. In fact, 15,995 tons were emitted on Wednesday, a very high amount.

The President of the Canary Islands Government, Ángel Víctor Torres, assured that this volcano is the most lethal in the history of the islands, since it has already emitted more magmatic material than San Juan and Teneguía combined. The only good news is that there have been no deaths.

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While writing, I do not remember the title of the book that stayed on the night table of that house that today threatens a new flow, and have already ceased to exist the pharmacy of Todoque, the home of Enrique the shoe rack, the workshop of the upholstery man and the Minigolf newsstand; a black lava mass has erased them from the map. The magnitude of the consequences of this volcanic eruption is measured on an immense scale that not only closes the more visible branches of what until a few days ago was prosperity and calm, it also affects the roots of the simplest and most everyday. And like this there are a thousand stories. The coordinates that guided life continue to be blurred on a land whose inhabitants we knew fortunate, and there are no more certainties or many of the places where we have been happy. However, time travelers remain, shoe rack's hands, secret to the recipe for the best pineapple pizza, upholstery skills and hopefully a new place for the pharmacy's light poster. Can be a good start to a new story."
Daniela Hernandez


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Change in the landscape in a matter of weeks.

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The lava flooding yesterday.

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