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Multiple tremors and the collapse of the crater on two points of the compass over the weekend.


La Palma

Background info, news, activity updates, interactive map about La Palma volcano
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The situation there is getting worse.
 
Some different activity in the past 20 minutes

 

Click to 39 minutes, then the closeup around 1:10
 
The La Palma volcano features heavily on 22W SES4 Reuters feed much of the day atm

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Watching this is MUCH more interesting than whats being shown on the main tv channels :D
 
22W - This evening you can clearly see cone formation in progress as the explosions splatter molten rock all around the centre of the picture - this has been going on for hours now. :)


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Half an hour later & there is much more lava flowing out the cone - its amazing how fast thing change up near the eruptions

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I had the transmission on for a couple of hours last night, there was definitely in increase in activity around 12.30, the top of the crater had changed shape by the time I went to sleep.

Sky is reporting the remainder of the local village has gone.

news.sky.com

La Palma volcano: Eruption spews searing hot boulders the size of three-storey buildings

An accompanying flow of scorching magma, reaching temperatures of up to 1,240C (2,264F), destroys the last few properties that remained standing in a devastated village, as tremors strike other communities.
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An interesting journal, the comments underneath provide updates to some of the other recent activity elsewhere (Iceland/Congo)

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A volcano tourist at La Palma

This post was published by the author at and is reproduced and translated) here by kind permission by the author. Volcanoes have fascinated me since I was little but it was not until the eruption o…
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There is also mention of a collapse of the crater at around 12.40 last night (just after I fell asleep)


According to the survey mapping, the island of La Palma has tilted since the eruption began three weeks ago, one side of the island is some 12cm higher than the other, suggesting much more magma is still on its way up.
 
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Reuters had the initial stages of a building destruction on this morning

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The building to the right is what looks like a concrete loading facility & the orange truck/jcb to the lower left was just being consumed when the feed cut to go & cover the latest Nobel prize (economics today which was exceptionally dull!)
 
Another batch of properties getting swamped by lava on 22w feed
 
Some fascinating footage tonight, both black and white plumes, as though there are two popes on the ascendant.
 
Dog rescue

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Daring drone rescue planned for 3 dogs stranded on La Palma | CNN

A Spanish drone operator has received permission to rescue three emaciated dogs trapped near a volcano in the Canary Islands by catching them with a remote-controlled net and flying them out over a stream of lava. The dogs have been stranded for weeks in an abandoned yard covered with volcanic...
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A couple of mag5's overnight.

 
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Mount Semeru eruption.

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Indonesia Semeru volcanic eruption kills 14; dozens injured

The eruption of Semeru volcano has killed at least 14 people and injured dozens on Java island, Indonesia's disaster agency said on Sunday, as rescue teams searched for victims under layers of ash, sometimes digging with their bare hands.
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