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Lava shoots up from volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands

A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday, sending jets of lava and a plume of smoke and ash into the air from the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island.
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A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday, sending jets of lava and a plume of smoke and ash into the air from the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island.

Authorities had begun evacuating the infirm and some farm animals from the surrounding villages before the eruption at 3:15 p.m. (1415 GMT) on a wooded slope in the sparsely populated Cabeza de Vaca area, according to the islands' government.

Immediately after the eruption, the municipality urged residents in a statement to "exercise extreme caution", and stay away from the area and off the roads.

The population of nearby villages were told to go to one of five centres to be evacuated and soldiers were deployed to help.

Spanish television (TVE) showed fountains of lava shooting into the sky and plumes of smoke could be seen from across the island.

Stavros Meletlidis, a doctor of volcanology at the Spanish Geographical Institute, said the eruption had opened up five fissures in the hillside and that he could not be sure how long the eruption would last.

"We have to measure the lava every day and that will help us to work it out."

Canary Islands President Angel Victor Torres told TVE that no injuries had been reported so far.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted that he had postponed his trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York and was on his way to La Palma.

Flights to and from the Canaries were continuing as normal, the airport operator Aena said.

La Palma had been on high alert after more than 22,000 tremors were reported in the space of a week in Cumbre Vieja, a chain of volcanoes that last had a major eruption in 1971 and is one of the most active volcanic regions in the Canaries.

The earliest recorded eruption in La Palma was in 1430, according to the Spanish National Geographical Institute (ING).

In 1971, one man was killed as he was taking photographs near the lava flows, but no property was damaged.
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Looks like the New York mega-tsunami will happen before The Big One takes out LA.
 
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Wrong kind of lava. This volcano produces the low silica goopy Hawaiian-style not the high silica Mt Saint Helens mountain-exploding massive lahar kind.

Pretty sure the threat is when the volcano goes extinct and erodes. Not as it builds.

Krakatoa it is not.
 
ColtWalker1847 said:
Wrong kind of lava. This volcano produces the low silica goopy Hawaiian-style not the high silica Mt Saint Helens mountain-exploding massive lahar kind.

Pretty sure the threat is when the volcano goes extinct and erodes. Not as it builds.

Krakatoa it is not.
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The threat lies in the volcano itself collapsing into the ocean.

It sunk a section of itself 6 feet in 1971 and apparently there's a real risk of the rest of it giving way.
 
This is the island with the huge crack in it, correct?

Ninja'd by CWCissey
 
CWCissey said:
The threat lies in the volcano itself collapsing into the ocean.

It sunk a section of itself 6 feet in 1971 and apparently there's a real risk of the rest of it giving way.
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According to who? The only records we have of these kinds of collapses are in the Hawaiian Islands and those were caused by erosion.

Eruptions where a chunk of the mountain sluffs off have all been andesite stratovolcanos like Mt Rainier. Not mafic lava ocean eruptions.

Edit: mafic not felsic
 
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I heard that if the side of the volcano breaks off and plunges into the ocean a tsunami would engulf the entire east coast of the North American continent a few hours later.
 
ColtWalker1847 said:
That it is erupting right now and squirting out red lava with minor quake storms and not bulging collapsing and violently exploding says I'm right.
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The issue isn't the volcano exploding. There's literally a giant fault through the island that if it gives will trigger a massive landslide.
 
Return of the Freaker said:
The issue isn't the volcano exploding. There's literally a giant fault through the island that if it gives will trigger a massive landslide.
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Ok. Then why are people shitting themselves over the volcano?

I'll tell ya. It's because the big volcanic cook-offs we have seen had a big earthquake associated with it. St Helens being notable. But that mechanism is different than what is happening here.
 
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