Cumbre Vieja de Canarias volcano spits ash again – telam

Cumbre Vieja spits ash again.

The Cumbre Vieja volcano spits ash again this Monday on the Spanish island of La Palma, after a brief hiatus in the morning, where several neighborhoods were confined to protect neighbors from the possible arrival of lava at sea after eight days of eruption.

The volcano combines “pulsations of explosions and pauses” for a certain time, David Calvo, spokesperson for the Instituto Volcanolgico de Canarias (Involcan) told AFP news agency.

The institute also confirmed that, although Cumbre Vieja again expelled ashes, its activity “has decreased compared to the previous days”.

Monday morning the volcano had “remarkably” reduced its activity for a few hoursAccording to experts, but local afternoon, Involcan released two photographs of the huge black column that rises above the crankcase, and describes: “Images of the ash emissions that have been observed in recent hours.

During Monday morning “You did not see any viscous lava flow coming out of the volcano, nor any ash.”

The Institute of Geosciences of Madrid had expressed a few hours earlier in the same vein, which published a message on Twitter indicating that “activity has decreased considerably in recent hours on La Palma”, accompanied by a graph that showed this decline.

The volcano had shown less activity on Monday morning.

In the meantime, alert: “You have to be very vigilant about its evolution because the scenario can change quickly.”

This morning, Involcan had reported in its official account: “During the last hours the volcanic tremor has almost disappeared, as well as the explosive strombolian activity – volcanic action which alternates eruptions of lava and explosive projections -“.

And he claimed that, as of now, “he couldn’t determine if it was a break or the end of the eruption,” and said he was evaluating different scenarios.

For their part, the authorities last night ordered the confinement of the inhabitants of several neighborhoods of the Municipality of Tazacorte to protect them from the possible arrival of lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano into the sea, which could release toxic gases on this Atlantic island. . of 85,000 inhabitants.

In turn, they reported that experts fear the effects of the encounter of the flaming magma with water, which could generate a thermal shock that would lead to the formation of water vapor columns loaded with hydrochloric acid.

The streams are now between 800 meters and 1000 meters from the coast in a straight line, according to the authorities.

At La Palma airport, closed on Saturday, the Binter company intended to resume operations on Monday, but withdrew.

“We are again paralyzing the operation with La Palma after trying to make a first flight today and checking that the necessary safety conditions are not met,” the company said on Twitter, where it announced that she would try again Tuesday “if the authorities confirm that they are, they offer favorable conditions”.

The eruption of Cumbre Vieja has claimed no casualties so far, but caused severe material damage and forced the evacuation of more than 6,000 people.

The gray and orange flaming magma flows destroyed nearly 500 buildings and the lava already covers more than 212 hectares, including many banana plantations, according to data from the European geospatial measurement system Copernicus.

The two previous eruptions on La Palma took place in 1949 and 1971, causing the death of three people in total, two of them by gas inhalation.