Last night “a thermal anomaly and a gas emission indicating the beginning of an eruptive process” were recorded in La Cumbre, 1,463 meters high, the agency said today.
He La Cumbre volcanofrom the uninhabited Fernandina Island, in the Galapagos archipelagoerupted again this Saturday, the state-run Ecuadorian Geophysical Institute reported today.
Last night it was recorded “a thermal anomaly and a gas emission indicating the beginning of an eruptive process” in La Cumbre, 1,463 meters high, the organization said today.
A cloud of gas, without much ash content, was displaced by the wind “without exceeding populations” of other islands with human settlements such as neighboring Isabela, he added.
The Geophysical Institute noted that videos shared on social networks confirmed the eruption from a circumferential fissure on the southern flank of the only Fernandina volcano, located west of the Galapagos, a natural heritage of humanity.
The local airport expressed in its account in X: “The sky over the western #Galapagos dawned red!”and released photos that show incandescent rivers of lava descending the slopes of the volcano.
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The top “provides a spectacle with a new eruption”, the terminal noted, adding that the natural phenomenon does not represent any type of impact on airport operations.
The Summit has erupted on several occasions, such as in 2020, when it did so for the third time in less than three years.
Galapagos, 1,000 km from the coast of Ecuador and which takes its name from the giant tortoises that live there, served the English naturalist Charles Darwin to develop the theory on the evolution of species.
It is also part of the biosphere reserve, It has unique flora and fauna in the world and its ecosystem is delicate, AFP reported.
Source: Ambito
