Rupture of the cone of the La Palma volcano threatens new urban areas

The partial break this morning of the cone of volcano what is in eruption on the Spanish island of The Palm, in the Atlantic archipelago of the Canary Islands, this Saturday, October 9, 2021, put the teams in charge of evacuating threatened areas on alert, by generating several releases of lava new, one of them very abundant, which has already devastated several buildings.

In total there are three castings of lava those that occurred with the rupture of the volcanic cone, two of them of less danger, since they have little force, and a third that is the one that devastated a small number of houses, and that is being monitored, although experts consider that due to the speed with which it descends, it would give time to evacuate the necessary areas.

The partial separation of cone It also caused the expulsion of large blocks of volcanic material and it cannot be ruled out that new emission centers will arise around the crater, according to the latest assessments by volcanologists.

The ground gained by the lava to the sea, the so-called lava delta (“fajana”), which runs the risk of collapsing, if it continues its advance to greater depths in the ocean, which would be accompanied by the sudden release of gases, with explosions and waves.

However, these waves would not exceed five meters in the vicinity of the break and would decrease in height with distance, in the opinion of the experts.

Improves air quality and increases seismic movements The specialists pointed out today, October 9, 2021, that the air quality, which is being constantly monitored to avoid poisoning by gases and ashes that expels the volcano, is “reasonably good” and foreseeably tomorrow it will be even better, but in any case at no time were the quality thresholds with which they work were exceeded.