Lava poured from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day, blanketing houses and fields.
Drone footage earlier showed lava flowing westwards to the coast in three huge tongues, incinerating everything in their path, including a school.
That seismic activity is"an indicator of the intensity of the strombolian explosive activity," the institute said late on Tuesday. Strombolian is an adjective describing volcanic eruptions with violent explosions ejecting incandescent dust.
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