La Palma's Volcanic Activity ~ TIME

 

La Palma's Volcanic Activity 

~ TIME ~

     time -- Ten days of volcanic activity on La Palma, in Spain's Canary Islands, has forced thousands of people to flee and led to the destruction of hundreds of homes and buildings. 

     The Canaries’ government chief Ángel Víctor Torres described the area impacted by the Sept. 19 eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano as a “catastrophe zone.” 

     Officials said on Sept. 28 that lava had reached La  Palma’s shoreline and was spilling into the Atlantic Ocean, releasing huge steam clouds and potentially toxic gases. In this photograph: horses roam on a farm in Tacande de Abajo on Sept. 27.