The team, made up of civil guards and scientists from the Instituto Vulcanológico de Canarias (Involcan), was within the exclusion zone and, all of them, have had to leave the area of the La Palma eruption where they collected data from it, due to to which the alarms of the potentially lethal gas detection system went off.
La Palma, like the rest of the islands of the Canary archipelago, has volcanic origin,
The volcano has been in eruption for 85 days , which shows that it has already become the longest eruption in the island's history since official records are available . The previous record was held by the Tehuya volcano in 1585, which erupted for 84 days.
What will happen to the volcano?
At the moment, the scientists point out that although the volcano's seismicity is low, as long as the values of sulfur dioxide emissions , among other things, are not close to zero, the eruption cannot be concluded. We still have to wait. It has become one of the longest-lasting phenomena in Spain. And it has taken ahead more than 3,000 buildings, including homes and other buildings.
