La Palma eruption
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.
Infrared video of late night activity after a verte active day at the volcano pic.twitter.com/XmCswSQY61
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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.
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