It took a little over three months for it to fall asleep again volcano Kumbre Vieha.
The explosion on the Spanish island La Palma, which caused significant damage, officially expired on Saturday.
“Today the scientific committee can say it, the eruption is over,” Julio Perez, head of the Pevolca Volcanic Islands emergency plan, told a news conference on Saturday. “There is no lava, no significant gas emissions, no major earthquakes,” the official said, noting that the eruption had lasted “85 days and 18 hours” since September 19.
It took ten consecutive days with no visible signs of volcanic activity, the time it takes scientists say, to be able to say the episode was over, and the end of the eruption was felt several times in the last three months, before resuming a few days later. , to the disappointment of the inhabitants of the island.
Kumbre Vieha is now dormant, its lava flows are black, icy, hard and a layer of black sand – ash – has settled like a veil over the place. It will take years, if not a decade, for the earth to be cleansed and rebuilt.
Experts have already warned that the area will remain dangerous for some time to come due to persistent toxic gas emissions and the fact that the lava will take a long time to cool. Not to mention the risk of landslides.
The volcanic activity is recorded in the history of La Palma, which, like the other six islands of the Canary Archipelago – located in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of Africa – is of volcanic origin.
However, this is the biggest eruption the island has ever experienced: it started on September 19, it was the first for 50 years, after those of San Juan volcano in 1949 and Tenegua in 1971.
Despite its duration and striking images of molten lava flows, there were no casualties, but it caused enormous damage: more than 7,000 people were evacuated, of whom about 600 were still living in hotels and nearly 3,000 buildings were destroyed.
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