Spain: the great video of the magma of the Cumbre Vieja volcano advancing on the basins

The unstoppable lava volcano Cumbre Vieja is still devastated with everything in its path, like some of the swimming pools on the Spanish island of La Palma (Canary archipelago). After the shocking images generated by the contact between the antagonistic temperatures of the magna and the water, finally, the the pools are buried.

The images recorded with drones, which allow us to see the advance of volcanic lava and its contact with water in the swimming pools, are, according to local media, a glimpse of what will happen when the magma landing in the salty waters of the sea, which will generate clouds of toxic gases by this contact.

In this regard, according to forecasts by the government of La Palma, the lava from the volcano, located in the center of the island, should descend towards the southwestern coasts and flow into the sea. The evacuees amount to 5,500 people. .

La Cumbre Vieja, whose last manifestation dates back 50 years (in 1971), erupted again on Sunday, September 19, and since Monday already razed more than 103 hectares of land and buried around 200 houses, according to satellite monitoring of the European Union’s Copernicus program.

The surface temperature of the lava emitted reaches 1075ºC, the formation of a main cone is also verified, the column of volcanic ash reaches a height of 1,500 meters and the gases emitted reach 3,000 meters.

La Palma is one of the seven islands of the tourist archipelago of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean, near the northwest coast of Africa.

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