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Between fascination of a natural spectacle..
- and destruction
This historical volcanic event on La Palma is hard to
express in words, since I have not observed this
dimension of the inner earth force after my observations
at Etna 2001.
The first impression after arriving in Palma Las Cruzes
(airport) and through the east-west tunnel was a ramp in
the eastern part of El Paso at a supermarket.
At
first glance, the comparison of an Apollo rocket rammed
into the ground upside down came very close. This is a
very vague comparison, but you are first faced with such
an event yourself.
With an unprecedented force, gas and slag material was
'propelled' up to 400m under high pressure of the main
vent of Cumbre, and this
incessantly with a nearly annoying roaring noise.
Distance about 2.5 km. No real crater formation could be seen
here yet.
09/23/21 Fountain ca.400m seen from El Paso/Empalme
Tajuya
In the first stadium of activities the outblown magma was pulverized
due to
the high pressure
in
the vent such enormous that only small
fragments of lava and lapilli could reached the ground.
An almost unbearable extrem noise acompanied us
constantly.
09/24;
No lava flow in sight yet, but a torch made of gas and
slag in behind the settlements of El Paraiso in the
dimension of about 600m
The mighty ash column about 5000m even created its own
'weather'
Extreme high fontains, calculated over field viewing
angle up to 1000 m eter or higher.
I had last seen it on Etna on February 15, 2000 with Tom
and Marco.
Video
First horizontal fontain video of the world ;-)
.. because the 16 x 9 format is unfortunately nearly
useless in these dimensions!
Video:
The opening of the first lava bubble / spring
apprx. 50m, 09/24
 
This bubble increased immensely in a very short time but
dried up again and reactivated itself on the evening of
September 25th.
09/25, in the streets of Laguna with the new towns landmark, an
oversized pillar of fire.
But on October the 26th, the
message comes that the city is currently being destroyed
by a new lava flow.
Fountain over the residencials over Los Llanos
 
Triple Fontäne (09/25)
The new lava front with
a
height up to
30-40m
began it's trail of devastation.
Animation
Overview of the entire
area of
Los Llianos de Adriane
A telephoto 600 / 900mm enabled me to get closer
pictures of the mighty destructive lava front on September the 25th
09/26 lava flows are traversing the populated area
(telelens)
Fiery morning view
Sept. 27/28:
In the further course on the western side
a vent
opened
whereby a massive lava flowed off
Close-ups (09/27) from the west side with a 100 m high lava
spring.
Sudden lava eruption on September the 28th, estimated width
250 m, length may 700 m
Fast
moving lava flows reached the settled plain in the morning
Lava fountains from the north side
09/27/21, observation point El Paso, distance
may 2 km
Fountains of all kinds. The side view on the right shows the
triple vent with a new lava spring origin nice bubbles on September the 28th
The gas fountains
at 09/28
Suddenly these gas fountains appeared . This event lasted
about 30 minutes.
Here only burning gas was emitted at a height of about 200m.
A spectacular sight!
Strato cloud
The buoyant plume in
combination with the heated air- masses of the
volcano Cumbre d. V.
created a so-called Strato cloud (sphere)
which is estimated at a height of 10? Km
ANIMATION 2
Sea Entry
29th of September:
On the way to airport this last minute shots origined at
the mirrador ,El Time'
The meeting in the whole mess
vl. Martin, Tom, Me, --- Marc, Martin, Michael (El Paso / Empalme Tajuya)
More coming soon!
Actual detailed maps by
In this actual map you can see the exact positions of
the vents, lava flows and destructions
More Informations:
Instituto Geografico Nacionale
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