La Palma

View of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands of La Palma, Spain

Residents remember their losses as they rebuild from La Palma’s volcanic eruption

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The Cumbre Vieja volcano’s eruption was officially declared over on Christmas Day after 10 days of no lava flows or seismic activity, and more than three months since it first erupted. Now, residents are trying to pick up the pieces and rebuild their lives.

A worker cleans the ash from the tables of a restaurant as lava flows from a volcano on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. 

Spain vows to help rebuild La Palma after devastating volcano eruption 

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Lava flows from an eruption of a volcano near El Paso on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain, of Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. 

Nerves on edge as volcano erupts on island in the Canaries

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