'No signs' that Spanish volcano will stop erupting soon

LA PALMA, Spain — After a period of lava travel and ash clouds, officials successful the Canary Islands accidental determination is "no extremity successful sight" to the eruptions from a volcano connected the land of La Palma.

La Cumbre Vieja, the volcano connected La Palma that archetypal began erupting connected Sept. 19, is inactive spewing ash and lava onto the Spanish land located disconnected the seashore of bluish Africa.

Since the archetypal eruption, Reuters reports that 2,000 buildings person been destroyed, and 7,000 of La Palma's 83,000 residents are inactive incapable to instrumentality to their homes. The Associated Press reports 37 miles of roadways connected the land person been ruined.

The lava travel has carved a way of demolition done the land — a way that archetypal reached the Atlantic Ocean connected Sept. 29. When the blistery lava falls into the water, it sends achromatic fume into the aerial that officials person warned could beryllium toxic.

Even a period aft the archetypal belches of lava and smoke, determination is small denotation that the enactment volition cease anytime soon. Video taken this play shows lava leaping precocious supra the island, and a unreality of ash forced the cancellation of 38 flights astatine La Palma's airdrome connected Sunday.

Officials besides detected 42 seismic tremors implicit the weekend, the largest of which measured magnitude 4.3 connected the Richter scale.

"There are nary signs that an extremity of the eruption is imminent adjacent though this is the top tendency of everyone," Canary Islands President Ángel Víctor Torres said, according to Reuters.

The existent eruption has already exceeded the magnitude of the volcano's past eruption. In 1971, an eruption of La Cumbre Vieja lasted astir 3 weeks.

"We are astatine the mercy of the volcano," Torres told reporters, according to The Associated Press. "It's the lone 1 who tin determine erstwhile this ends."