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The Cumbre Vieja volcano It continued this Tuesday, throwing lava and ash on the Spanish island of La Palma, in the Canary archipelago, where it has already destroyed hundreds of homes and forced to evacuate almost 7,000 residents since its eruption began a month ago.

The Cumbre Vieja entered into an eruptive phase on September 19, when it emitted spectacular rivers of lava that began a slow descent until finally reaching the sea, ten days later. Despite the fact that the eruption has not left any victims, the fiery flows of magma – gray and orange – have been destroying everything in their path, and they already cover 763 hectares.

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The lava has washed away 1,956 buildings, including hundreds of houses, according to the latest figures from the Spanish government. The ash clouds that the volcano emits without rest, and that dye part of the island gray, also regularly disturb the air connections with La Palma.

A month after the start of the eruption, also accompanied by recurrent minor earthquakes, geologists do not know how to predict how long its activity may extend.

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The Cumbre Vieja expels 10,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per day and, to consider that it is starting to fade, it should drop to 400 tons, David Calvo, spokesman for the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (Involcan), explained to the press.

Lava flows from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary Island of La Palma on the night of October 9, 2021. (JORGE GUERRERO / AFP).

“No one is able to claim that this is its completion”, said on his side the head of the regional government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres.

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A second lava flow is now located about 100 feet from the coast, to the west of the island, and its contact with the ocean could cause toxic emissions.

Volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands. (AFP).

According to David Calvo, this new flow, whose temperature exceeds 1,100 degrees, advances very slowly and could reach the sea on Tuesday, probably forcing the residents of the closest areas to be confined.

The first lava flow hit the ocean in late September. By solidifying after contact with water, it generated a new peninsula that now totals 40 hectares.

Since the beginning of the eruption, almost 7,000 residents of this small Atlantic island of 85,000 inhabitants have had to leave their homes.

This is the third eruption of a volcano on La Palma in the last century, after San Juan in 1949 and Teneguía in 1971.

Both left a total of three deaths, two of them due to inhalation of toxic gases, although they caused less damage than that of the Cumbre Vieja, since in those decades the island was less populated.

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