Angel Victor Torres added in a put up on Twitter that there had been no studies of accidents or deaths to date.
The Canary Islands emergency providers tweeted late Sunday that 5,000 folks had been evacuated from the realm nearest to the eruption.
That determine included 400 vacationers evacuated from a lodge on La Palma and brought to a lodge on the close by island of Tenerife, Torres instructed Spanish radio station SER in an interview.
After an evening of spectacular pictures of the lava illuminating the island’s countryside, Torres instructed SER that specialists consider there may be nonetheless only one level of eruption from the volcano, close to a “flippantly populated” a part of the island, which has a inhabitants of about 80,000 folks.
Footage from the island confirmed at the least one freeway lower by a wall of lava; native officers stated some homes had been broken.
Officers have warned native residents to maintain their distance from the eruption.
European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen expressed solidarity with the folks of La Palma in a Twitter put up on Monday. She added that “we’re in touch with Spanish authorities to supply any further help that’s wanted.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has remained on La Palma, one of many smaller islands within the Canary Islands archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Morocco, after speeding there on Sunday.
After delaying his journey to New York for the United Nations Basic Meeting, Sanchez and different officers on Monday toured an evacuation heart. He was later attributable to get a more in-depth take a look at the volcano and its destruction.
The Canary Islands Volcanology Institute (Involcan) wrote in a press release on Fb on Sunday that greater than 25,000 earthquakes had been detected within the earlier 9 days across the Cumbre Vieja volcano.
Spanish information studies stated the final main eruption from the volcano was 50 years in the past.
The regional president stated some 400 firefighting personnel have been in place to battle any fires brought on by the lava flows.
Spain’s Ministry of Transport tweeted that it had prohibited ships from crusing too near the volcano, due to the dangers posed by lava flowing into the ocean.
The Canary Islands are a well-liked vacationer vacation spot for British, German and different European guests.
CNN’s Al Goodman reported from in Madrid with Vasco Cotovio in Lisbon in addition to Martin Goillandeau and Jeevan Ravindran in London.
