With 47 ‘super-eruptions’ in the world’s history, brace yourself for life-altering consequences. because no one knows when the next one might hit.
This handout photograph taken and released by the Spanish Military Emergency Unit on October 9, 2021 shows the lava flow produced by the Cumbre Vieja volcano, in the northern area of the Canary island of La Palma on the night of October 8.
But the original story still has legs. The eruption is now more than two weeks old, but the explosions and lava flows are still increasing. Part of the main cone of Cumbre Vieja collapsed last weekend. Hundreds of metres high at first, the tsunamis waves would be down to 100m by the time they reached Spain, and perhaps only 25m when they struck the North American coast from Florida to Newfoundland. But that’s still a lot.
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