Volcano gushes out lava on Spain’s La Palma island: La Palma, with about 85000 inhabitants, is one of 8 volcanic islands in Spain’s Canary Islands archipelago off Africa’s north-western coast. At their closest point, the islands are sixty miles from Morocco. A 4.2-magnitude quake was logged before the volcanic outbreak, which occurred at a place in an area known as Cabeza de Vaca on the western slope as the ridge slopes to the coast. As the eruptions sustained two open mouths spurted bright red lava into the air that then…
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