SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The La Palma volcano continues to erupt and it is estimated that, so far, it has expelled more than 80 million cubic meters of lava, according to the daily bulletin issued by the Department of National Security, an advisory body to the President of the Government of Spain .
The lava delta that has formed has an area of 27 hectares and the new flow, generated by the two magmatic mouths opened at dawn on Friday to the northwest of the main cone, advances towards the trace of the main flow, which runs with certain stability.
The area occupied by the fallen ash extends over more than 3,000 hectares. As for the air quality in the Aridane Valley, outside the exclusion zone, it is within the permitted limit values. However, the thermal inversion during this night prevents the dispersion of gases that remain in low levels of the atmosphere, which has forced the preventive confinement of new population centers.
The exclusion zone maintains its 2.5 kilometer radius of safe distance from the broadcast area. In the last hours, a dozen small earthquakes have been registered in the south of La Palma and the volcanic tremor has begun to increase until reaching values similar to those of the first days of the eruption.
During the first meeting of the Mixed Commission for the Special Plan for Reconstruction, the purchase of up to 107 homes for the victims was approved and the fiscal, administrative and organizational measures adopted on Thursday in the Governing Council of the regional Executive were detailed.
