Regardless of the heightened exercise, the lava seemed to be following the same trajectory to earlier flows and avoiding areas which have to date been spared, Canary Islands’ regional president Angel Victor Torres mentioned.
“We needed to order a couple of lockdowns due to the air high quality, however we’re not planning to evacuate extra individuals,” he mentioned in an interview to TV channel TVE on Monday morning.
Torres mentioned the volcano had emitted roughly thrice the fabric expelled throughout the island’s final main eruption in 1971, in 1 / 4 of the time.
He added that his administration deliberate to purchase round 300 homes to accommodate those that misplaced their houses and mentioned it was too early to inform how nice the overall harm can be.
“We’re nonetheless in the course of this … if the lava retains bobbing up in the identical portions we noticed final night time, the harm goes to be higher,” Torres mentioned.
Roughly 1,000 buildings have been destroyed for the reason that eruption started on September 19 and 6,000 individuals have been evacuated, largely from the cities of El Paso and Los Llanos de Aridane, two of the principle inhabitants facilities within the island of 83,000 individuals.
Whereas visiting the island over the weekend, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged 206 million euros in help to assist rebuild and insisted La Palma was secure for tourism.
