MADRID (AP) — The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma shut down again Thursday because of the ashfall from a volcano that has been erupting for nearly three weeks.
Scientists talked about the route of the eruption used to be unpredictable. It settled down in fresh days, however the volcano within the Canary Islands continues to spew lava, and 16 earthquakes of up to magnitude 3.5 shook the house over the outdated 24 hours, the Nationwide Geographic Institute talked about.
The lava has forced the evacuation of greater than 6,000 other folks and destroyed greater than 600 properties. The ash cloud temporarily closed La Palma Airport final month.
Officers talked about the molten rock from the crater is now flowing down a so-known as lava tube under earlier, hardened lava, straight into the sea. That has eased fears it goes to also spread wider and plan off extra destruction.
The German Analysis Heart for Geosciences, which despatched a crew to La Palma, talked about the lava waft is 6,300 meters (6,900 yards) long, greater than 1,000 meters (1,100 yards) huge at its broadest level, and up to 25 meters (82 toes) thick.
The center’s volcano researcher, Thomas Walter, talked about the drawl of affairs is restful irritating and unpredictable.
“It’s miles restful too early to deliver…how this eruption will produce,” he talked about in a assertion.
Suggested evacuations helped dwell faraway from casualties from the eruption, and diverse the island of round 85,000 other folks is unaffected.
The volcanic Canary Islands lie off the northwest poke of Africa.
