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- No human loss has been reported, but around 6,000 people have been evacuated and 320 homes destroyed by towering lava flows rising up to 12 meters high.
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Sep 30, 2021 · Hundreds of properties have been destroyed and thousands of people have fled their homes after a volcanic eruption on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands. What happened?
At 85 days, it is the longest known and the most damaging volcanic eruption on La Palma since records began. [9] [10] [11] The total damage caused by the volcano amounts up to 843 million euros. [5] The lava flow covered over 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres), prompting the evacuation of around 7,000
- 7,000 People Evacuated
- Up to €700m in Damages
- €345m in Aid, Hope For Islanders
- 85 Earthquakes A Day
So far, the eruption has destroyed 1,184 homes according to land registry figures. Those are the dreams of 2,120 people, the number of residents in the exclusion zone according to data from La Palma Cabildo, as the island authority is known. The anxiety, however, is being felt by a total of 7,000 people – the number of residents who have had to be ...
“We are still in the thick of it,” the regional premier of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has stated over and over. That is why the actual cost of the damage caused by the volcano continues to rise, minute by minute. Notwithstanding, Torres has sought to estimate the final bill: between €550 and €700 million. This figure would qualify the...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is planning to visit La Palma on Saturday, making this his seventh visit since September 19. The third time he traveled to the Canary Island after the eruption began the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader announced a “powerful package of measures” that would be destined for the rebuilding of infrastructure as well as...
Earth tremors have been a regular feature of the eruption, but the fact that they have been so regular has not stopped the population of La Palma from suffering every time the ground shakes– and it has shaken a great deal in the last two months. Since the eruption began up until November 18, there have been 5,100 tremors on the island, which is 85 ...
Oct 4, 2021 · Officials in La Palma have recorded 1,130 tremors in the area over the past week. Explosions have propelled ash almost 15,000ft into the air, according to the Guardia Civil police force.
- Samuel Osborne
Dec 25, 2021 · A volcano eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma has officially been declared over, after three months of spewing ash and hot molten rock. Since erupting on 19 September, the Cumbre Vieja...
Oct 9, 2017 · All times are local (unless otherwise noted) Multiple eruptions have occurred during the last 7,000 years at the Cumbre Vieja volcanic center on La Palma, the NW-most of the Canary Islands. The eruptions have created cinder cones and craters, and produced fissure-fed lava flows that reached the sea a number of times.
Sep 20, 2021 · Around 5,000 people were evacuated from their homes this weekend after a volcano erupted on the Spanish island of La Palma, part of the Canary Islands off the northwestern coast of Africa....
