SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The technical director of Pevolca, Miguel Ángel Morcuende, has insisted that at the moment there is a “low probability” that a new emission center will emerge in the vicinity of the Cumbre Vieja volcanic cone, because seismicity, although it continues to be high, it is occurring at a medium depth, between 10 and 15 kilometers, and high, more than 20 kilometers.
At a press conference, Miguel Ángel Morcuende reported that a total of 237 people are still housed at the Hotel Princess in Fuencaliente and there is no news regarding the number of buildings affected, as long as there is no new data from either the Copernicus or the Cadastre. Likewise, in the primary sector, a total of 169.44 hectares have been devastated by lava, of which 90.25 are banana trees, 9.43 avocado trees, 48.37 vineyards and 21.39 other crops.
Regarding the castings, Morcuende has indicated that the original casting has “totally lost its bellows” and right now “does not clearly have a lava contribution”; the second casting, which runs parallel to the main one, lowers “with power” and is currently causing “significant damage” as it passes through cultivated areas and buildings. The Pevolca continues to monitor this wash in case there is a change of direction; the third stream, located further to the northwest, has crossed the Callejón de la Gata Industrial Park diagonally and the surrounding population centers are already being evacuated.
Asked about the possibility that the volcanic cone could fracture again, the technical director of Pevolca has affirmed that it will surely happen again, since the morphology of the cone is changing “every day” and is “one of the great problems” that they exist in this emergency, since the cone “is mutable and permanently mutates”.
