The National Geographic Institute (IGN) locates eight tremors during the morning with three of them above three degrees
Seismicity is still present on La Palma with the location of up to eight tremors during the past morning in the municipalities of El Paso, Tazacorte and Fuencaliente. Three of these tremors have been greater than three degrees, according to data compiled by the National Geographic Institute (IGN) and with depths ranging between 14 and 11 kilometers.
The one with the greatest intensity was a 3.5-degree earthquake located at 04.16 hours this Sunday in the northwest of the municipality of Fuencaliente with a depth of 14 kilometers. It is followed by another of 3.2 degrees at 05.27 hours also in the same area and about 14 kilometers deep and another of 3.1 also in the same area at 06.52 hours and 11 kilometers deep. These tremors are normal in the middle of the eruptive process.
The fajana already covers almost 30 hectares and continues to grow
The fajana or low island that the La Palma volcano has created continues to grow at a good rate thanks to the feeding of lava that it receives from the three mouths located in the cone and which record an activity of the Hawaiian type. According to the data managed by the director of the National Geophysical Observatory of the National Geographic Institute (IGN), Carmen López, the lava platform is more than 475 meters from the coastline and already extends over an area of almost 30 hectares. Its surface is 30 meters above the sea and below there are 25 meters of submerged island.
It registers lateral growth to the north and south. Experts assure that this lava delta will be larger than the one that generated the San Juan volcano and in which there are banana trees today given the volume of lava that continues to flow from the emission sources. The volcanologist Juan Carlos Carrecedo, indicated yesterday that we are facing a “great volcano” and that there are no signs that the activity is subsiding. Quite the contrary, he assured that its duration will be “considerable.” Initially it has been estimated at about 55 days, although this period could be exceeded. For now, in 12 days, it has emitted 80 million cubic meters of lava, in cone and streams, double that of Teneguía (1971) in 24 days.
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