The announcement of increased aid comes on top of the €10.5 million for building houses and basic necessities approved by the government last week. “But citizens should know that when it does end, the government of Spain will be there to help with the enormous task of rebuilding La Palma and offer a horizon of prosperity.” “We are facing a test of resistance, because we don't know when the volcano's eruption will end," Sánchez said.
The funds also aim to create jobs and cut taxes for La Palma residents. The government has declared the island a disaster area.Īccording to Sanchez, the extra money will rebuild crucial infrastructure for the island´s economy, mainly irrigation networks for the important banana export industry and other agricultural crops, as well as roads that serve the hiking trails and beaches that attract tourists. Sanchez was briefing journalists after visiting the affected area of the Canary Islands for the third time. On Sunday the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged another €200 million to help the island recover from the damage. Experts estimate the debris has already covered an area bigger than 25 football pitches. The island of 85,000 people lies in Spain's Canary Islands archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of Africa.Įmergency personnel are continually monitoring air quality in residential areas affected. Lava flowing from vents has destroyed over 900 buildings and displaced about 6,000 people so far, and new vents opened just days ago. Health is of increasing concern as there has been little let-up of discharge from the Cumbre Vieja volcano since it started erupting. “It’s not over yet, we don’t even know how long there is to go,” the Canary Islands’ regional president Ángel Víctor Torres told public broadcaster RTVE. Spain’s National Geographical Institute said it recorded two quakes early on Monday that measured more than 3.0 magnitude. A volcano that erupted on the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands is continuing to explode and spew out lava more than two weeks after it erupted. Officials said they didn’t expect to evacuate any more people from the area, because the molten rock was following the same route to the sea as earlier flows. "That is highly improbable, although not impossible, today.LA PALMA - Earthquakes rattled La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands on Monday, as lava continued to flow from vents in the volcano that has been erupting since Sept. "We saw the worst-case scenario in the 1949 eruption, when a second volcano mouth opened up and cut off the southern part of the island, which had to be supplied by boat," volcano scientist Vicente Soler said. The current activity is on day 39 and shows no signs of stopping. The last eruption on the island, in 1971, lasted 24 days. Other than in an area on the island's western side, life continues as normal for La Palma's 85,000 residents except for having to clean up volcanic ash. No deaths have resulted from the eruption. The rivers of lava cover over 900 hectares (2,200 acres) of mostly farmland, while one major flow is extending the island into the Atlantic as it cools. Sign up here to receive The Climate Barometer, delivering climate and environmental news to your inbox every weekįlows of molten rock from the Cumbre Vieja volcano itself have caused the evacuations of about 7,500 people and destroyed more than 2,000 buildings, mostly homes."The scientific committee has been warning for more than a week that we could see earthquakes, given their recent depth of around 12 kilometres (7.4 miles) and their magnitude, that reach a magnitude of 6 (on the Richter scale)," Maria Jose Blanco, director of Spain's National Geographic Institute on the Canary Islands, told Spanish national broadcaster RTVE. The Tuesday earthquake was felt up to 60 miles (96 kilometers) away on three other segments of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off northwest Africa. So far, the earthquakes have either been small enough or far enough under La Palma to do no harm, other than adding to the anxiety of the island residents. Seismologists said a 4.6 magnitude earthquake shook the island a day after they recorded a 4.9 magnitude quake that was the strongest so far of the hundreds that have occurred under La Palma since the volcano's Sept. Residents on Spain's La Palma island braced Wednesday for the possibility of bigger earthquakes that could compound the damage from a volcano spilling lava more than five weeks since it erupted. The island of La Palma in the Canary Islands is at risk of undergoing a large landslide, which could cause a tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean.Volcanic islands and volcanoes on land frequently undergo large landslides/collapses, which have been documented in Hawaii for example.
0 kommentar(er)
