Dawn this Sunday was very seismic on the Spanish island of La Palma, where the local National Geographic Institute (IGN) detected 79 earthquakes.
The largest, with a magnitude of 4.1, was recorded in Fuencaliente at a depth of 13 kilometers and was felt almost on the entire island.
Of the 709 earthquakes recorded since midnight, 11 were severe and 28 were of magnitude 3 or more.
The difference compared to previous days is the depth of almost all earthquakes, intermediate, from 10 to 15 kilometers.
Only four occurred at greater depths: 21, 28 and two at 36 kilometers. Most of them were located in Fuencaliente and Mazo, with the exception of two registered in El Passo and Tazacorte.
The seismicity of the last hours came after a 4.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded on the island of La Palma on Saturday, the same day the volcano again collapsed on the main cone, causing large flows of lava.
According to Spanish IGN, the quake was the largest since the volcanic eruption on September 19, recorded at 4:34 p.m. local value in Villa de Mazo at a depth of 38 kilometers and felt by the population of the entire island.
At the same time, according to the latest measurements from the European Copernicus satellite system, at 8:14 am in Spain (7:14 am in Portugal), the volcano’s lava covered 14 hectares in 12 hours, bringing the total surface to 891.1 hectares.
According to an image published by Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth observation program on social media, the new lava-covered surface is located at the back of the volcano’s cone that collapsed and affected the vicinity of La Laguna, which is credited with a mass of magma gushing from the crater since early Saturday morning. …
Lava has also destroyed 14 more buildings on the island in the past few hours, bringing the total to 2,143.
La Palma was hit by several earthquakes every day due to volcano activity, which on Saturday, on the 34th day of the eruption, underwent a new collapse of the main cone, causing significant lava flows.
Also on Saturday, the President of the Canary Islands archipelago Angel Victor Torres said that the end of the eruption is not yet expected. “We still have several weeks of emergency ahead of us,” said Torres, quoted by Efe.
The head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, arrived again this Saturday in La Palma to reaffirm the commitment of the Spanish government to help rebuild what was damaged by the volcano.
