The lava coming out of the 'Cumbre Vieja' volcano has covered, since the eruption began on Sunday, September 19, a total of 258 hectares and has already destroyed 686 buildings, according to satellite monitoring by the European Union's Copernicus program.
In addition, according to the latest Copernicus sampling dating from 06.50 hours on September 27, the lava has also swept away 22.2 kilometers of road on the island.
At the last Pevolca meeting, the technical director of Pevolca, Miguel Ángel Morcuende, and the spokesperson for the scientific committee, María José Blanco --director of the IGN in the Canary Islands--, highlighted that the volcano continues its evolution with the normality of a fissural and strombolian type that behaves "as such", with continuity and discontinuity, so both have pointed out that changes should not be a cause for concern during the process.
Blanco pointed out that the volcano has already emitted 46.3 million cubic meters of magmatic material, more than the Teneguía eruption in 1971, and highlighted that the strombolian mechanism is concentrated in the main cone and there have been magmatic pulses, a whitish column that disappears and reaches great height.
Thus, she pointed out that the process "will continue to show it" in the coming dates and although the explosions have ceased in the cone, which has been modifying its structure, "they can occur again and abruptly."
The Copernicus program, coordinated through the National Center for Monitoring and Coordination of Emergencies (CENEM), has devices for monitoring and tracking national alert networks, potential risk situations, incidents and emergencies in the field of civil protection.
The island's volcanic traffic light remains red, in a state of emergency, and the eruptive process continues.