40 people were evacuated from near the volcano on La Palma Island before the eruption
A huge column of smoke rose up after the eruption at 3.15 pm local time in the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island, according to the Canary Islands government.
Just before, authorities evacuated about 40 people with mobility problems and farm animals from the villages around the volcano. Soldiers were deployed to help with the evacuation, the defence ministry said, and it is expected that more people will be evacuated from surrounding towns.reaching 3.8 magnitude in the national park, according to the Spanish National Geographical Institute .
The earliest recorded volcanic eruption in La Palma took place in 1430, according to the ING. In the last eruption in 1971, one man was killed when he took photographs near the lava flows but no property was damaged.
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