“A single incident that shows that the earth is a living planet is the eruption of the volcano Kubre Vieha on the island of La Palma, in Spain,” said professor of Geology and Natural Disaster Management and President of OASP, Efthymis Lekkas, speaking on the radio.
He stressed that there is no greater activity at the land level, adding that there are these individual incidents, which are in any case impressive.
“The impressive thing about La Palma is that it has evolved in a much shorter time than expected. Usually the evolution of a volcanic eruption takes a few months, here it took a few days, it has to do with local conditions. It has to do with the rapid accumulation of magma that was risen to the surface and through the craters and kilometers of cracks came to the surface. It is accompanied by rich seismic activity, thousands of vibrations created by the rise of magma, from a depth of about 10-20km. to the surface, which give earthquakes 1-3 Richter “.
Temperature reaches 1,500-2,000 degrees Celsius
“To see lava erupt with such force on the surface, at such a height, is the most beautiful thing one can see and it manifests itself in the processes that take place inside and outside the earth. “The most unique thing one can see on earth”, said Mr. Lekkas. Then, all this lava remains warm for a long time, up to a few weeks, even months and its temperature reaches 1500-2000 degrees Celsius.
“When the lava reaches the sea, together with the water, chemical reactions are created and gases are released, dangerous to a degree but it is also impressive since we are dealing with geysers, because the lava actually goes into the sea water, which evaporates immediately and “Impressive phenomena are created”, said Mr. Lekkas.
In our country, the active volcanic arc is monitored by the competent volcanic risk assessment committee of OASP, which consists of 25 scientists and meets every 2 months. “We are watching it, we are in the green at the moment. “When we had the volcanic eruption in Santorini, things were at the limit, we reached the orange”, said the president of the Organization in conclusion.
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