September 26, 2021
A slow-moving wall of basaltic lava is bulldozing its method through neighborhoods on among the Canary Islands.
After Cumbre Vieja divided open and started emerging on September 19, 2021, a slow-moving wall of basaltic lava started bulldozing its method through inhabited parts of LaPalma Lava circulations have actually damaged almost 400 houses, buried lots of kilometers of roadways, and taken in farmland as molten rock sneaks down the western flank of the volcanic island towards the ocean.
The Operational Land Imager ( OLI) on Landsat 8 recorded a natural-color image (above) of lava streaming through the neighborhoods of El Paraiso and Todoque on September 26,2021 Though the within the lava circulation was hot and molten, cooling on the surface area left a dark crust that made the circulation appear black in natural-color images. Observations of infrared wavelengths (2nd image listed below) expose the most popular parts of the circulation.
September 26, 2021
Many of the white rectangle-shaped functions near the coast are greenhouses. The dark green locations along the coast are crops, most likely fields of bananas. The volcanic plume streaming towards the northeast consists of a mix of ash, sulfur dioxide, and other volcanic gases.
A lull in activity in the early morning on September 27 recommended that the eruption may be unwinding, however explosive activity resumed later on in the day, according to the Volcanology Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN). Experts from INVOLCAN have actually suggested that the present eruption might continue for weeks to months.
Cumbre Vieja last appeared 50 years earlier. The newest eruption in the Canary Islands occurred in 2011, when an undersea vent at El Hierro came to life.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, utilizing Landsat information from the U.S. Geological Survey.
