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🗓️ 20 December 2021
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0:32.6 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taggata. For three months now, |
0:40.9 | the Cumbra-Vieha volcano has unleashed fury upon the island of La Palma, that's in the Spanish |
0:46.2 | Canary Islands. Ash has rained from the sky. Rivers of lava have consumed at least |
0:51.4 | 2,600 buildings and raised plantations of bananas and avocados. |
0:56.5 | The magma's movement underground has triggered clusters of earthquakes, too, more than a dozen hit |
1:01.1 | La Palma on a recent day. Despite that devastation, though, only one death has been attributed |
1:06.4 | to the eruption, and volcanologists say the recent activity has them rethinking their predictions |
1:11.4 | of the volcano's next move. It's always useful to see a new volcano personality. Mark Antoine |
1:18.0 | Longprey is a volcanologist at the City University of New York. He says every eruption helps |
1:23.0 | scientists better understand volcanoes and improve their forecasts. One lesson is that these volcanoes and the Canary Islands behave a little bit differently |
1:31.3 | from other basaltic volcanoes that we commonly see in the media, for example, like Hawaiian |
1:38.0 | volcanoes and Aetna in Italy. |
1:40.6 | He explains that those volcanoes tend to have a shorter run-up to their eruptions, |
1:45.0 | whereas Cumbra Vieja began to reawaken years ago in October 2017 with a cluster of tiny earthquakes. |
1:51.6 | In the years since, the volcano has triggered sporadic swarms of tiny quakes, |
1:56.0 | but on September 11th, 2021, eight days before the eruption, things picked up. A couple hundred quakes hit every day, |
2:03.1 | and the ground began to deform, probably due to flows of magma. In hindsight, it took a long time |
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