A file photo of the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupting on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands. Lava from the volcano now covers an area of more than 789 hectares, according to the European Union’s ...

Cumbre Vieja’s island location and steep slopes fit the profile of catastrophic tsunami-causing eruptions, such as the one at Anak Krakatau.

La Cumbre Vieja volcano spews ash after a brief pause. The coordination team monitoring the eruption of a volcano on La Palma is working with all possible scenarios, from the starkest to the most ...

Authorities in Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday told residents on the western coast of La Palma to seal doors and windows with tape and wet towels to ward off toxic gases spewed by lava from ...

A river of red-hot lava gushing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma thickened on Monday, after the north side of the crater collapsed the previous night causing spectacular ...

The Cumbre Vieja volcano began erupting on Sept. 19 and has destroyed more than 800 buildings and forced the evacuation of about 6,000 people from their homes on the island.

On September 19, the Canary Islands’ Cumbre Vieja volcano began an explosive eruption that shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. A series of earthquakes provided only about a week’s ...

The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma erupted on Sept. 19, and has continued to spew lava and ash and cause earthquakes since.

Mount Cumbre Vieja erupts in El Paso, spewing out columns of smoke, ash and lava as seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma on Sunday, September 19, 2021.

In September 2021, after 50 years of relative rest, the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands erupted explosively and caused 400 million euros of infrastructure damage, demonstrating behavior ...

Prior to this, the Cumbre Vieja erupted in 1971 (known as the Teneguía eruption), killing a nearby photographer due to asphyxiation before damaging roads, crops and homes on La Palma.

A river of red-hot lava gushing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma thickened on Monday, after the north side of the crater collapsed the previous night causing spectacular ...