The eruption of La Palma faces his 51st day, when scientists begin to appreciate that the system that feeds the volcano with magma from the depths is showing signs of exhaustion and the administrations deliver the first houses to the citizens evacuated from their homes.
Also, during this day, Canarias maintains the suspension of face-to-face classess in the educational centers of El Paso, Los Llanos de Aridane, Tazacorte, Tijarafe and Puntagorda, where the online teaching modality is maintained.
And it is that the ash, the clouds and the use of different technology are behind the “small discrepancies” of interpretation of the data that the European Copernicus satellite system is collecting on the impact of the volcanic eruption at Cumbre Vieja, on La Palma. For example, the ash accumulation, with heights of up to 20 meters at some points, “may hinder” the process of distinguishing between these and the washes.
“Important amounts of CO2”
On the other hand, the Canary Islands Volcanological Institute (Involcan) yesterday published a video on its social networks in which it is seen a little bubbling in the Dos Aguas area, in the Caldera de Taburiente. According to experts, this phenomenon is due to the presence of large amounts of CO2.
Bubbling of Dos Aguas, inside the Caldera de Taburiente. Here significant amounts of CO2 are emitted, and a small amount of helium from the earth’s mantle is degassed, with a significant proportion from the lower mantle, that is, more than 600km deep. pic.twitter.com/XJuQ3uUayp
– INVOLCAN (@involcan) November 8, 2021
“Here significant amounts of CO2 are emitted, and it degasses a small amount of helium from the Earth’s mantle, with a significant proportion of the lower mantle, that is to say, more than 600km deep ”, Involcan explained in the Twitter video. Involcan experts have been sampling the point inside the Caldera for more than 25 years, according to another publication.
The data provided by this bubbling allows scientists to know when the magmatic activity under the subsoil of La Palma, and reveals that it is still in great motion, a data that indirectly affects the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which continues to expel lava and with these data it does not seem that it will stop immediately.
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