La Palma Volcano thread

[Gashead]

It's approaching 1 month of it being active but no one is really talking about it.


This is a live stream where the side is about to melt which it did spectacularly last night (I'd post a webm but I don't know how)


This is the sea view, it reached the sea further south but might soon do it there as well. That stream goes off line in about 4 or 5 hours.


This is a different angle, it's zoomed in at the moment but the cameras can and do pull back or zoom in for differing views.

Earthquakes are hourly but none are higher than 4.5 so the Tsunami threat isn't likely.

 

[Hyrulean]

This is both frightening and spectacular...

Seeing lava coming slowly towards your house is sa vision of horror.

My toughts are with the people living there...

 

[Gashead]

Seeing lava coming slowly towards your house is sa vision of horror.

My toughts are with the people living there...

One of the streams used to have a tracker on the bottom showing that over 1000 buildings and 20+km of roads had been destroyed. A lot of the buildings were agricultural poly tunnel type things but sadly it also included more substantial buildings like peoples homes and warehouses.

It's been on going since the 19th of September so in some places it's not so much that a house got burned it's more there is now a hill where the house once was. I don't think there have been any injuries, it started slowly so the resident's were all able to evacuate, but their belongings probably weren't.

 

[Hyrulean]

One of the streams used to have a tracker on the bottom showing that over 1000 buildings and 20+km of roads had been destroyed. A lot of the buildings were agricultural poly tunnel type things but sadly it also included more substantial buildings like peoples homes and warehouses.

It's been on going since the 19th of September so in some places it's not so much that a house got burned it's more there is now a hill where the house once was. I don't think there have been any injuries, it started slowly so the resident's were all able to evacuate, but their belongings probably weren't.

Yeah I know, I've been watching it since the very beginning.
It reminds us how insignificant we are...

 

[dark_prinny]

as a Spaniard, I've been following this up closely. Tragic for the locals and a reminder of the power of nature.

 

[Dmax3901]

Wow I didn't know this same volcano was still going! How common is it for eruptions to go on this long?

 

[Gashead]

Wow I didn't know this same volcano was still going! How common is it for eruptions to go on this long?

This particular island had eruptions in 1949 and 1971, the 71 eruption also lasted roughly a month, so this one might end soon but it keeps changing. Last night rather than the current/usual red or orange viscous lava, it was white hot and runny. It could be seen dripping like water from higher elevations rather than oozing downwards.

 

[Dash Kappei]

Tenerife here. My house is 138km from La Palma’s vulcano (and less than 30 from El Teide lol), swimming pool’s water is near black.
Anyway, got these incredible La Palma pictures I wanted to share from El Pais.

 

[Gashead]

Some of those pics are crazy and really sell the scale of it all.

Must be tricky for the authorities because you can't plan or rebuild until you know when it's ended.

Edit, as I said that I checked the stream to see a new tree on fire so the lava obscured by the hill is clearly spreading