THE COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION PROCESS DURING THE LA PALMA ERUPTION ERRORS, SUCCESSES, LEARNINGS AND PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVEMENT
Víctor M. Melo López 1; José M. Marrero 1; Sharon Backhouse 2; Ben Ireland 2. 1 Canary Islands Volcanoes Association; 2 GeoTenerife.
After nearly fifty years without showing obvious signs of volcanic activity on the surface, in 2021 there was a new eruption in the area known as Cabeza de Vaca in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain). The eruption lasted eighty-five days and caused numerous losses due to the extensive area affected by the continuous lava flows and the fall of pyroclasts. The eruption received extensive coverage in the regional, national and global media for weeks after it began, and became one of the most well-recorded eruptions in recent years. Researchers from GeoTenerife and VolcansCanarias analysed the communication work during the eruption of La Palma 2021.