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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Cumbre Vieja volcano, pictured from El Paso, spews lava on the Canary island of La Palma on December 13. Photo by Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images. Some wisps of ...

Today, one chilling possibility involves the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma, which could collapse into the Atlantic and send a mega-tsunami toward the US East Coast.

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.

The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma was silent for a second day on Wednesday, raising hopes of an end to the three-month eruption, although experts remained cautious.

Cumbre Vieja started erupting nearly a month ago, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people as lava has made its way through towns and toward the Atlantic Ocean.