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30-06-2022, 08:54 PM
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The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
By islands, this percentage is 48.7% for La Palma and 39.4% for Tenerife; Nemesio Pérez asks that the La Palma eruption mark "a before and after" of volcanic risk management
The ashes of the La Palma volcano could be used in construction
The volcano of La Palma destroyed hydraulic infrastructure worth 100 million
By Anna Santana . The recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja must mark "a before and after" regarding the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands, the only area of the national territory exposed to this factor, and develop a strategy in this area "or else, I would have learned nothing”, affirms the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN , Nemesio Pérez, more so taking into account the probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in approximately 50 years.
SCIENCE
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
By islands, this percentage is 48.7% for La Palma and 39.4% for Tenerife; Nemesio Pérez asks that the La Palma eruption mark "a before and after" of volcanic risk management
The ashes of the La Palma volcano could be used in construction
The volcano of La Palma destroyed hydraulic infrastructure worth 100 million
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
EFE
06/30/2022 - 11:53
By Anna Santana . The recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja must mark "a before and after" regarding the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands, the only area of the national territory exposed to this factor, and develop a strategy in this area "or else, I would have learned nothing”, affirms the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN , Nemesio Pérez, more so taking into account the probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in approximately 50 years.
In an interview with EFE, Nemesio Pérez points out that the eruption recorded on the island of La Palma has been a turning point “that forces our society -administrators and administrators- to develop a Canarian Strategy for Volcanic Risk Reduction because otherwise we wouldn't have learned anything from what just happened."
Already during the visit of the presidents of Spain and the Canary Islands, Pedro Sánchez and Ángel Víctor Torres, respectively, to La Palma on December 26, 2021, the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN told them that the eruption of Cumbre Vieja "should mark a before and after on volcanic risk management in Spain; say the Canary Islands, the only part of the national territory exposed to volcanic risk”.
At present, an important effort is being made for the recovery of La Palma "and we are forgetting what has been the real cause of this great social and economic impact on the island, which has not been mainly a volcanic eruption (which also) , but the very poor perception that our society has about the volcanic risk in the Canary Islands”, points out Nemesio Pérez.
And this is because development has been promoted in the Autonomous Community during the last 50 years "without paying the necessary and sufficient attention" to complete as it should all those actions aimed at reducing the volcanic risk in the Canary Islands.
Therefore, the existence of a Canarian Strategy for the Reduction of Volcanic Risk applicable to La Palma "is and will be essential" to strengthen the project for the recovery of the island, argues the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN, who recalls that it has been "sowing in society this seed that does not finish germinating as it should."
However, he continues, he hopes that this eruption "and our level of preventive preparation prior to it - clearly improvable despite the efforts made - will open our eyes to worry and deal with the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands as this society deserves”.
The Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands has proposed the need for this document and has the tools to develop the Canary Strategy for Volcanic Risk Reduction under three principles, which are scientific knowledge, citizen participation and consensus.
Precisely INVOLCAN researchers Nemesio Pérez, Pedro Hernández and Luca D'Auria presented a paper entitled "Lessons learned in the recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja: the need for a strategy to reduce volcanic risk in the Canary Islands" in the eleventh edition of the largest international conference on volcanic risk management, held June 12-17 in Crete.
PROBABILITIES OF A NEXT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN THE CANARY ISLANDS
Among other issues, the work recalls that the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro and Lanzarote have been the scene of the 18 historical eruptions recorded in the Canary Islands, they are the ones with the greatest volcanism and the eruption of Cumbre Vieja in 2021 has been the most important in Europe in the last 75 years.
SCIENCE
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
By islands, this percentage is 48.7% for La Palma and 39.4% for Tenerife; Nemesio Pérez asks that the La Palma eruption mark "a before and after" of volcanic risk management
The ashes of the La Palma volcano could be used in construction
The volcano of La Palma destroyed hydraulic infrastructure worth 100 million
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
EFE
06/30/2022 - 11:53
By Anna Santana . The recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja must mark "a before and after" regarding the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands, the only area of the national territory exposed to this factor, and develop a strategy in this area "or else, I would have learned nothing”, affirms the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN , Nemesio Pérez, more so taking into account the probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in approximately 50 years.
In an interview with EFE, Nemesio Pérez points out that the eruption recorded on the island of La Palma has been a turning point “that forces our society -administrators and administrators- to develop a Canarian Strategy for Volcanic Risk Reduction because otherwise we wouldn't have learned anything from what just happened."
Already during the visit of the presidents of Spain and the Canary Islands, Pedro Sánchez and Ángel Víctor Torres, respectively, to La Palma on December 26, 2021, the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN told them that the eruption of Cumbre Vieja "should mark a before and after on volcanic risk management in Spain; say the Canary Islands, the only part of the national territory exposed to volcanic risk”.
At present, an important effort is being made for the recovery of La Palma "and we are forgetting what has been the real cause of this great social and economic impact on the island, which has not been mainly a volcanic eruption (which also) , but the very poor perception that our society has about the volcanic risk in the Canary Islands”, points out Nemesio Pérez.
And this is because development has been promoted in the Autonomous Community during the last 50 years "without paying the necessary and sufficient attention" to complete as it should all those actions aimed at reducing the volcanic risk in the Canary Islands.
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Therefore, the existence of a Canarian Strategy for the Reduction of Volcanic Risk applicable to La Palma "is and will be essential" to strengthen the project for the recovery of the island, argues the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN, who recalls that it has been "sowing in society this seed that does not finish germinating as it should."
However, he continues, he hopes that this eruption "and our level of preventive preparation prior to it - clearly improvable despite the efforts made - will open our eyes to worry and deal with the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands as this society deserves”.
The Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands has proposed the need for this document and has the tools to develop the Canary Strategy for Volcanic Risk Reduction under three principles, which are scientific knowledge, citizen participation and consensus.
Precisely INVOLCAN researchers Nemesio Pérez, Pedro Hernández and Luca D'Auria presented a paper entitled "Lessons learned in the recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja: the need for a strategy to reduce volcanic risk in the Canary Islands" in the eleventh edition of the largest international conference on volcanic risk management, held June 12-17 in Crete.
PROBABILITIES OF A NEXT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN THE CANARY ISLANDS
Among other issues, the work recalls that the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro and Lanzarote have been the scene of the 18 historical eruptions recorded in the Canary Islands, they are the ones with the greatest volcanism and the eruption of Cumbre Vieja in 2021 has been the most important in Europe in the last 75 years.
According to INVOLCAN, the probabilities of a future volcanic eruption for the Canary Islands in a time window of 50 years are 75 percent, and by islands this percentage is 48.7% for La Palma and; 39.4% for Tenerife.
Both UNESCO and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior recommend drawing up volcanic hazard maps and developing multidisciplinary programs for monitoring volcanic activity, as well as emergency plans to educate the population and minimize the loss of human lives. .
However, in the Canary Islands there is a poor perception of volcanic risk and there is a lack of continuous support from public administrations to establish educational programs in this area, with a lack of commitment also when it comes to materializing unanimous decisions that have been adopted in legislative chambers to improve volcanic risk management.
There are also pressures from the tourism sector towards the political class to avoid talking about volcanic risk and there is a lack of coordination between the different Spanish research groups working on volcanic risk management.
In addition, Civil Protection has not developed and promoted exercises (drills) of the emergency plan against volcanic risk.
INVOLCAN proposes for the Canarian Volcanic Risk Reduction Strategy workshops or meetings aimed at public authorities, security and emergency managers, health, social agents, the educational community, journalists, territorial planners, the tourism sector, other business sectors and economists and lawyers .
In addition, representatives of the energy and water, transport and communications sectors will also take part in these workshops focused on knowledge of volcanoes and volcanic risk management.
It is about unifying all public efforts to optimize volcanic risk management, establishing legal mechanisms that guarantee continuous improvement in this area and improving knowledge of the impact of this natural risk in the Canary Islands for the next 50 years.
The challenges are also to place a special emphasis on education and perception of volcanic risk for a change in attitude, both individual and collective, and to design a good communication program on volcanic risk among organizations, institutions and people related to this management, which will be vital for disaster risk reduction.
Meanwhile, INVOLCAN is waiting for the public administrations to provide the resources "to be able to prepare this important document... otherwise we have not learned anything from this eruption or from volcanic risk management in the Canary Islands", points out Nemesio Pérez .
https://diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/202...hchcY-2Q_4
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
By islands, this percentage is 48.7% for La Palma and 39.4% for Tenerife; Nemesio Pérez asks that the La Palma eruption mark "a before and after" of volcanic risk management
The ashes of the La Palma volcano could be used in construction
The volcano of La Palma destroyed hydraulic infrastructure worth 100 million
By Anna Santana . The recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja must mark "a before and after" regarding the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands, the only area of the national territory exposed to this factor, and develop a strategy in this area "or else, I would have learned nothing”, affirms the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN , Nemesio Pérez, more so taking into account the probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in approximately 50 years.
SCIENCE
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
By islands, this percentage is 48.7% for La Palma and 39.4% for Tenerife; Nemesio Pérez asks that the La Palma eruption mark "a before and after" of volcanic risk management
The ashes of the La Palma volcano could be used in construction
The volcano of La Palma destroyed hydraulic infrastructure worth 100 million
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
EFE
06/30/2022 - 11:53
By Anna Santana . The recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja must mark "a before and after" regarding the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands, the only area of the national territory exposed to this factor, and develop a strategy in this area "or else, I would have learned nothing”, affirms the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN , Nemesio Pérez, more so taking into account the probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in approximately 50 years.
In an interview with EFE, Nemesio Pérez points out that the eruption recorded on the island of La Palma has been a turning point “that forces our society -administrators and administrators- to develop a Canarian Strategy for Volcanic Risk Reduction because otherwise we wouldn't have learned anything from what just happened."
Already during the visit of the presidents of Spain and the Canary Islands, Pedro Sánchez and Ángel Víctor Torres, respectively, to La Palma on December 26, 2021, the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN told them that the eruption of Cumbre Vieja "should mark a before and after on volcanic risk management in Spain; say the Canary Islands, the only part of the national territory exposed to volcanic risk”.
At present, an important effort is being made for the recovery of La Palma "and we are forgetting what has been the real cause of this great social and economic impact on the island, which has not been mainly a volcanic eruption (which also) , but the very poor perception that our society has about the volcanic risk in the Canary Islands”, points out Nemesio Pérez.
And this is because development has been promoted in the Autonomous Community during the last 50 years "without paying the necessary and sufficient attention" to complete as it should all those actions aimed at reducing the volcanic risk in the Canary Islands.
Therefore, the existence of a Canarian Strategy for the Reduction of Volcanic Risk applicable to La Palma "is and will be essential" to strengthen the project for the recovery of the island, argues the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN, who recalls that it has been "sowing in society this seed that does not finish germinating as it should."
However, he continues, he hopes that this eruption "and our level of preventive preparation prior to it - clearly improvable despite the efforts made - will open our eyes to worry and deal with the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands as this society deserves”.
The Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands has proposed the need for this document and has the tools to develop the Canary Strategy for Volcanic Risk Reduction under three principles, which are scientific knowledge, citizen participation and consensus.
Precisely INVOLCAN researchers Nemesio Pérez, Pedro Hernández and Luca D'Auria presented a paper entitled "Lessons learned in the recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja: the need for a strategy to reduce volcanic risk in the Canary Islands" in the eleventh edition of the largest international conference on volcanic risk management, held June 12-17 in Crete.
PROBABILITIES OF A NEXT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN THE CANARY ISLANDS
Among other issues, the work recalls that the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro and Lanzarote have been the scene of the 18 historical eruptions recorded in the Canary Islands, they are the ones with the greatest volcanism and the eruption of Cumbre Vieja in 2021 has been the most important in Europe in the last 75 years.
SCIENCE
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
By islands, this percentage is 48.7% for La Palma and 39.4% for Tenerife; Nemesio Pérez asks that the La Palma eruption mark "a before and after" of volcanic risk management
The ashes of the La Palma volcano could be used in construction
The volcano of La Palma destroyed hydraulic infrastructure worth 100 million
The probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in 50 years is 75%
EFE
06/30/2022 - 11:53
By Anna Santana . The recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja must mark "a before and after" regarding the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands, the only area of the national territory exposed to this factor, and develop a strategy in this area "or else, I would have learned nothing”, affirms the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN , Nemesio Pérez, more so taking into account the probability of a next volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands in approximately 50 years.
In an interview with EFE, Nemesio Pérez points out that the eruption recorded on the island of La Palma has been a turning point “that forces our society -administrators and administrators- to develop a Canarian Strategy for Volcanic Risk Reduction because otherwise we wouldn't have learned anything from what just happened."
Already during the visit of the presidents of Spain and the Canary Islands, Pedro Sánchez and Ángel Víctor Torres, respectively, to La Palma on December 26, 2021, the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN told them that the eruption of Cumbre Vieja "should mark a before and after on volcanic risk management in Spain; say the Canary Islands, the only part of the national territory exposed to volcanic risk”.
At present, an important effort is being made for the recovery of La Palma "and we are forgetting what has been the real cause of this great social and economic impact on the island, which has not been mainly a volcanic eruption (which also) , but the very poor perception that our society has about the volcanic risk in the Canary Islands”, points out Nemesio Pérez.
And this is because development has been promoted in the Autonomous Community during the last 50 years "without paying the necessary and sufficient attention" to complete as it should all those actions aimed at reducing the volcanic risk in the Canary Islands.
ADVERTISING
Therefore, the existence of a Canarian Strategy for the Reduction of Volcanic Risk applicable to La Palma "is and will be essential" to strengthen the project for the recovery of the island, argues the scientific coordinator of INVOLCAN, who recalls that it has been "sowing in society this seed that does not finish germinating as it should."
However, he continues, he hopes that this eruption "and our level of preventive preparation prior to it - clearly improvable despite the efforts made - will open our eyes to worry and deal with the management of volcanic risk in the Canary Islands as this society deserves”.
The Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands has proposed the need for this document and has the tools to develop the Canary Strategy for Volcanic Risk Reduction under three principles, which are scientific knowledge, citizen participation and consensus.
Precisely INVOLCAN researchers Nemesio Pérez, Pedro Hernández and Luca D'Auria presented a paper entitled "Lessons learned in the recent eruption of Cumbre Vieja: the need for a strategy to reduce volcanic risk in the Canary Islands" in the eleventh edition of the largest international conference on volcanic risk management, held June 12-17 in Crete.
PROBABILITIES OF A NEXT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN THE CANARY ISLANDS
Among other issues, the work recalls that the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro and Lanzarote have been the scene of the 18 historical eruptions recorded in the Canary Islands, they are the ones with the greatest volcanism and the eruption of Cumbre Vieja in 2021 has been the most important in Europe in the last 75 years.
According to INVOLCAN, the probabilities of a future volcanic eruption for the Canary Islands in a time window of 50 years are 75 percent, and by islands this percentage is 48.7% for La Palma and; 39.4% for Tenerife.
Both UNESCO and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior recommend drawing up volcanic hazard maps and developing multidisciplinary programs for monitoring volcanic activity, as well as emergency plans to educate the population and minimize the loss of human lives. .
However, in the Canary Islands there is a poor perception of volcanic risk and there is a lack of continuous support from public administrations to establish educational programs in this area, with a lack of commitment also when it comes to materializing unanimous decisions that have been adopted in legislative chambers to improve volcanic risk management.
There are also pressures from the tourism sector towards the political class to avoid talking about volcanic risk and there is a lack of coordination between the different Spanish research groups working on volcanic risk management.
In addition, Civil Protection has not developed and promoted exercises (drills) of the emergency plan against volcanic risk.
INVOLCAN proposes for the Canarian Volcanic Risk Reduction Strategy workshops or meetings aimed at public authorities, security and emergency managers, health, social agents, the educational community, journalists, territorial planners, the tourism sector, other business sectors and economists and lawyers .
In addition, representatives of the energy and water, transport and communications sectors will also take part in these workshops focused on knowledge of volcanoes and volcanic risk management.
It is about unifying all public efforts to optimize volcanic risk management, establishing legal mechanisms that guarantee continuous improvement in this area and improving knowledge of the impact of this natural risk in the Canary Islands for the next 50 years.
The challenges are also to place a special emphasis on education and perception of volcanic risk for a change in attitude, both individual and collective, and to design a good communication program on volcanic risk among organizations, institutions and people related to this management, which will be vital for disaster risk reduction.
Meanwhile, INVOLCAN is waiting for the public administrations to provide the resources "to be able to prepare this important document... otherwise we have not learned anything from this eruption or from volcanic risk management in the Canary Islands", points out Nemesio Pérez .
https://diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/202...hchcY-2Q_4
