On Tuesday, March 15, at 8:00 pm, Casa de las Ciencias will host the volcanology conference ‘Eruption 2021 in La Palma’, which will be presented by Juan Carlos Carracedo, Research Professor at the Supreme Council for Scientific Research. (CSIC) and director of the Canary Islands Volcanic Station (IPNA-CSIC) until 2011.
In the talk, which will be free to access until full capacity is reached, Caracedo will analyze the eruption that began in the Cabeza de Vaca region, on the island of La Palma, on September 19, 2021 and lasted for 86 days, until December 13.
The Cumbre Vieja mountain range is the island’s most volcanically active region and the most active in the Canary Islands, hosting half of all historically recorded volcanic events in the archipelago. Thus, this new eruption opened a group of volcanic craters on the western side of the Cumbre Vieja fault zone and destroyed more than 2,800 buildings and nearly 2,000 hectares of farmland and farmland, mainly due to lava flows.
In his speech, Professor Carracedo will explain the geological reasons for this situation. It will address the island’s medium and long-term challenges, which include protecting drainage systems from episodes of torrential rain; Will comment on the future volcanic hazards of the Cumbre Vega volcanic chain; It will analyze the challenges posed by a disaster with these human characteristics and how to mitigate its effects.
Currently, Juan Carlos Carracedo is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a full academic at the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Canary Islands. He has worked in the Canary Islands for more than 50 years and has published more than 200 scientific articles and books on volcanoes, especially in the oceanic archipelagos.
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