Posted on 10/16/2021 3:09:30 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
| A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands in what was the strongest recorded temblor since volcanic eruptions began 26 days ago, authorities said Thursday.
The quake was one of around 60 recorded overnight, Spain’s National Geographic Institute said, as the Cumbre Vieja volcano continued to spew fiery rivers of lava that are destroying everything in their path and dumping molten rock into the Atlantic Ocean.
The lava has partially or completely destroyed more than 1,600 buildings, about half of them houses, officials said, though prompt evacuations have so far prevented any deaths. Around 7,000 people have had to abandon their homes, 300 of them Thursday.
“This is definitely the most serious eruption in Europe of the past 100 years,” Canary Islands President Ángel Víctor Torres said.
“The only good news is that…so far, nobody has been hurt,” he said.
The flow from three rivers of molten rock broadened to just over a mile, the La Palma government said, but their advance has slowed to a crawl.
Hard, black lava now covers 1,665 acres on the western side of the island, authorities said, though most of la Palma is unaffected.
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I’ve been watching this for the past few weeks via a YouTube channel. This morning was a “massive river” of lava. Strangely, many folks are in a party mode.
Never happen. All this talk of aa tsunami hitting the East Coast. Wishful thinking you all. Worst that will happen is a few extra crabs will wash up on the beach.
““This is definitely the most serious eruption in Europe of the past 100 years,” Canary Islands President Ángel Víctor Torres said.”
Except for every time Etna erupts, Vulcano Erupts, Stromboli Erupts, any of the Icelandic Volcanoes erupt, and, Vesuvius Erupts, he may be right.
One of the most over hyped events of the last 20 years is more like.
“This is definitely the most serious eruption in Europe of the past 100 years,”
It’s off the coast of Morocco.
Africa creates a tsunami and we get hit with a 160-foot-high wave? Are there reparations for all that?
Geophysics isn’t my bag, man. Do volcanic eruptions and earthquakes often come together? Seems like separate phenomena to me, but, as stated, I know nothing.
Morocco:The New Europe.
Lol, don’t tell those guys that. They’re Spaniards, dammit, and that is Spain!
We’re all doomed!🤯
Why are you posting that fake Tsunami graphic? Nobody is predicting anything close to that.
This is Spain.
They will party on.
I love that country.
Mt. Vesuvius in 1944, The continuing eruption of Mt. Etna in Sicily, and the constant Icelandic volcanoes want to have a word with you, Senor.
Politically, Europe. Geographically, Africa.
This could really mess up the shipping business and have a negative effect on Christmas shopping.
Magma pushing up through the crust from the mantle causes earthquakes.
Florida has always had the best used boat and motor sales.
A friend trailerd a boat he bought in Florida all the way to Oregon. (check the map for those of you in Rio Linda:)
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