The Cumbre Vieja volcano continues to erupt on November 13, 2021 in La Palma, Spain. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. Lava flows from the eruption caused widespread destruction on the island, destroying ...

The slopes at Cumbre Vieja had been rapidly growing over the last 150,000 to 125,000 years and had begun to show signs of instability—fractures, fissures, and faults—over the last 7,000 years.

The Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma, one of Spain's Canary Islands, erupted Sunday, after several earthquakes were felt over the weekend.

In 2021, the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted for a total of 85 days — the longest eruption ever recorded on La Palma island The possibility of a mega-tsunami caused by a volcanic eruption sounds ...

The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma fell silent as constant tremors stopped late on Monday, though experts cautioned this did not necessarily mean the eruption is nearing an ...

A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition of magma ...

New evacuation orders were announced for the Spanish island of La Palma, as the Cumbre Vieja volcano destroyed more than 2,000 buildings and continued to spew lava more than one month after its ...

The eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano over three months in late 2021 devastated the southern portion of the island, part of the Canaries archipelago in the Atlantic, forcing the evacuation of ...