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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher and Daljata.

For three months now, the Cumbre Viejo volcano has unleashed fury upon the island of La Palma.

That's in the Spanish Canary Islands. Ash has rained from the sky. Rivers of lava have

consumed at least 2,600 buildings and raised plantations of bananas and avocados. The magma's

movement underground has triggered clusters of earthquakes too. More than a dozen hit La Palma

on a recent day. Despite that devastation though, only one death has been attributed to the eruption.

And volcanologists say the recent activity has them rethinking their predictions of the volcano's

next move. It's always useful to see a new volcano personality. Mark Antoine Longprey is a

volcanologist at the City University of New York. He says every eruption helps scientists better

understand volcanoes and improve their forecasts. One lesson is that these volcanoes and the Canary

Islands behave a little bit differently from other basaltic volcanoes that we commonly see or

in the media, for example, like Hawaiian volcanoes and Edna and Italy.

He explains that those volcanoes tend to have a shorter run-up to their eruptions,

whereas Cumbre Viejo began to re-awake in years ago in October 2017 with a cluster of tiny

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