La Palma island braces for more quakes as volcano roars on

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Residents on Spain’s La Palma island are bracing for the possibility of bigger earthquakes that could compound the damage from a volcano still spilling lava more than 5 weeks after it erupted. Hundreds of quakes have occurred since the eruption.

Seismologists said a 4.6 magnitude earthquake shook the island a day after they recorded a 4.9 magnitude quake that was the strongest so far of the hundreds that have occurred under La Palma since the volcano’s Sept. 19 eruption.

So far, the earthquakes have either been small enough or far enough under La Palma to do no harm, other than adding to the anxiety of the island residents. The Tuesday earthquake was felt up to 60 miles away on three other segments of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off northwest Africa. “The scientific committee has been warning for more than a week that we could see earthquakes, given their recent depth of around 12 kilometers and their magnitude, that reach a magnitude of 6 ,” María José Blanco, director of Spain’s National Geographic Institute on the Canary Islands, told Spanish national broadcaster RTVE.

 

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