Volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands: Miracle house left without damage – SME.sk

LA PALMA. An untouched house in the middle of a scorched black landscape. Photos from the island of La Palma, which lies in the Atlantic Ocean, have become viral. There is a house on one of the Canary Islands, which avoided the lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano.

He was named “Miracle House” on social networks, she said BBC station. According to Ada Monnikendam, the architect of the house, the owners of Inge and Ranier Cocq, a retired Danish couple, “were relieved that they were still standing.”

Since the beginning of the pandemic in the house owners have not been. “We all started crying like crazy when I told them (owner, pos. Ed.) That their house was intact,” Monnikendam told El Mundo.

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The house is located in the town of El Paraíso, where more than half of the houses and the local school are destroyed. Monnikendam adds that it is “sad to know that the house is there alone without anyone being able to take care of it”.

The lava flow slowed sharply on Thursday, raising fears that molten rock could continue to expand in the coming days and cause further destruction instead of flowing into the sea, the Associated Press reported.

One of the lava flows, 600 meters wide, slowed to a speed of four meters per hour an hour after the lava came to the surface on Wednesday, authorities said. On Monday, the day after the eruption, lava was moving at a speed of 700 meters.

The second lava flow has virtually stopped, Maria Jose Blanco, head of the National Geographical Institute in the Canary Islands, told a news conference.

Blanco said that “seismic activity on the island of La Palma is now low, but the molten rock from the volcano is still flying out.”

The population of the west side of the island, which is home to 85,000 people, remains in precarious. Scientists claim that the movement of lava can take weeks or months.

La Palma witnessed its last eruption in 1971, he recalls Guardian.