This video was recently captured of Ecuador’s La Cumbre volcano just as it began erupting once again. Ecuador’s environmental ministry said in a recent statement that gas emission and thermal anomalies were first detected through satellite systems ahead of the eruption. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00This video was recently captured of Ecuador's Lacumbre volcano just as it began erupting once
00:05again. The island upon which the volcano resides is part of the Galapagos Archipelago, known for
00:10Charles Darwin's famed studies of biodiversity. Ecuador's environmental ministry said in a recent
00:15statement that gas emissions and thermal anomalies were first detected through satellite systems
00:20ahead of the eruption. Here you can see the expulsion of gas lit up by the bright glow of
00:24liquid hot lava flowing from the volcano before dawn. The Lacumbre volcano resides on the island
00:30of Fernandina, and it's just one of 13 active volcanoes on the archipelago. That's because
00:35underneath the string of islands is the Galapagos hotspot, a 20-million-year-old seismic uplift
00:40caused by myriad layers of lava. The last volcano to erupt on the island chain was the Wolf volcano
00:46back in 2022. Though Lacumbre last erupted in January 2020, experts expect this eruption to be
00:52much larger than that one. The eruption is occurring around 600 miles from mainland Ecuador, but even on
00:57the Galapagos Islands themselves, experts don't believe this one should have much impact on tourism.