Evacuation orders will be lifted, structures rebuilt, and the new ash will become incorporated into the rich soils that support the many banana plantations of the west side of the island.Ä«ut there is always uncertainty about an event in progress. What next? If it follows a similar pattern to 1971, eruptive activity will soon slow and in a few weeks, Cumbre Vieja will settle back into dormancy. The network recorded over 22,000 small earthquakes in the following week. The initial earthquakes were small in magnitude (has also been the most volcanically active with seven documented historic eruptions since 1470. La Palma is one of the newest its earliest rocks are less than 2 million years. The oldest rocks (~20 million years) are on the island of Fuerteventura on the east. The Canary Islands likely formed, succumbed to erosion, and reformed many times since then. The islands owe their existence to a geologic hotspot, a concentrated plume of hot rock originating deep within the earthâs mantle, that formed beneath the African plate about 70 million years ago. It is a major tourist destination with at least 4 million annual visitors in pre-pandemic times. The Canaries include seven inhabited islands and a number of smaller islets that are home to over 2.1 million people. It is useful to look at the basis of the media hype and what the likely outcomes of the current eruption. Much of the media coverage has not been about the current eruption but focused on the potential for a catastrophic landslide producing a megatsunami. Hundreds of buildings have been damaged/destroyed and ashfall has covered 14,000 acres. The eruption of Cumbre Vieja volcano has produced lava flows extending two miles downslope into populated areas resulting in more than 5,000 evacuations. A volcanic eruption began three weeks ago on La Palma in Spainâs Canary Islands, about 300 miles off the coast of Africa.
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