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Added on the 19/09/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Nighttime images of lava spewing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain's La Palma island, two weeks after the beginning of its first eruption in 50 years. At least 870 buildings of all types have been completely destroyed and 6,000 people have been evacuated. IMAGES
La Cumbre Vieja volcano erupts in La Palma, Spain, as smoke billows from the mountainside in the Canary Islands. IMAGES
Galapagos's La Cumbre volcano erupts on the inhabited Fernandina Island. IMAGES
A volcano on a small, Japanese island erupted on Friday morning, sending plumes of smoke billowing thousands of metres into the sky and forcing residents to evacuate.Mount Shindake erupted at 9:59 on Friday morning on Kuchinoerabu Island, a small island in southern Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture.After the volcano erupted and spewed a tower of black clouds into the sky, the Japan Meteorology Agency raised the volcano alert level from three to five. The clouds prompted Japanese authorities to evacuate the approximately 140 residents of the island by ferry.A pyroclastic flow of heated gas and rocks flowed down the side of Mt. Shindake following the eruption and made its way down to the ocean.No injuries were reported despite the suddenness of the eruption.
Mount Marapi in western Indonesia erupts, spewing an ash cloud more than a mile into the sky as authorities warn residents over potential dangers from cold lava flows. IMAGES