The Spanish island of La Palma has actually prolonged 43 hectares right into the sea considering that the Cumbre Vieja volcano started emerging greater than 2 months back.
New photos released by the European Planet monitoring program, Copernicus, reveal the in the past as well as after of the island” s coast.
Copernicus tweeted photos from its Guard 1 satellite to demonstrate how the lava has actually boosted the island’s dimension. The volcano initially started emerging on 19 September.
Pictures from the high-resolution optical satellite Guard 2 supply a closer consider the distinction on the Spanish island in the Canaries.
Right here’s a consider La Palma on 15 September– 4 days prior to the eruption started– contrasted to the island on 19 November.
Lava currently covers a location of 1065.9 hectares of the island. Lava has actually additionally damaged about 2,651 structures considering that the beginning of the eruption.
Just Recently, greater than 40 tremblings have actually been taped on the island, according to the National Geographic Institute, as the volcanic task proceeds.
The best trembling was of size 4.8 as well as happened in the districts of Suite de Mazo as well as Fuencaliente, where a lot of the seismic task took place.
On Tuesday, La Palma airport terminal reactivated its task after cleansing the path, “yet the presence of winds southern as well as southwest are triggering a damaging situation for air navigating as a result of the personality of ash in the direction of the eastern as well as northeast, which might hinder the growth of procedures,” according to the Spanish National Geological Institute.
