Nerves on edge on Spanish island as quakes, lava threaten
CBC
Several small earthquakes shook the Spanish island of La Palma off northwest Africa in the early hours of Tuesday, keeping nerves on edge as rivers of lava continued to flow toward the sea and a new vent blew open on the mountainside.
After moving downhill across the island's countryside since Sunday's eruption, the lava is gradually closing in on the more densely populated coastline.
Officials said a river of lava was bearing down on the neighbourhood of Todoque, where more than 1,000 people live and where emergency services were preparing evacuations.
About 6,000 people on La Palma have been evacuated from their homes so far and 183 houses damaged, government spokesperson Isabel Rodriguez said after a cabinet meeting in Madrid.
The new vent is 900 metres north of the Cumbre Vieja ridge, where the volcano first erupted on Sunday after a week of thousands of small earthquakes.
That so-called earthquake swarm gave authorities warning that an eruption was likely and allowed more than 5,000 people to be evacuated from the area, avoiding casualties.
The new fissure opened after what the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute said was a 3.8-magnitude quake late Monday.
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