Updates on The La Palma Volcano Eruption Today
Updates on Possible Tsunami, in The La Palma Volcano Eruption Today. We will show you Live coverage of La Palma volcano eruption
Here you can see live footage of the clouds of smoke rising above the island. We have our Spanish team monitoring the situation and will be updated regularly here.
Lava 6-7m high engulfing houses, says Canary Islands president
Speaking on Spanish TV not long ago, president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, said at the moment “there is no certainty” about the number of homes affected by the lava.
He said that the height of the lava is “six or seven meters and it is engulfing houses.”
Torres expressed his “solidarity with the neighbors who have left their homes” but asserted that “we do not foresee having to evacuate anyone else” along the route of the lava flow. Some 5,000 people have been evacuated from the area so far.
“It is too early to know if this will last X days or weeks,” he concluded.
Canary Islands president speaks In an interview with radio station Cadena Ser, president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has stated that “there will be significant material damage” caused by the eruption of the volcano in La Palma. “We hope there is no humanitarian damage,” he added.
“There is a lot of magma, we have to wait. There have been no new evacuees. All our solidarity with the neighbors.”
The mayor of El Paso confirms town is “totally evacuated”
The mayor of El Paso, Sergio Javier Rodríguez Fernández, has told Cadena SER that “the area is completely evacuated, it is safe for people, but not for the infrastructure. Ashes are an added danger, but this is difficult to control.”
The front page of Almería’s local newspaper Ideal this Monday morning with an impressive photo of the volcanic eruption in La Palma. Lava is currently spewing out of eight craters…
