A Mighty Blast by National Geographic Magazine

After 50 years of relative quiet, La Palma—one of the youngest
and most volcanically active islands in the Canaries—saw a
dramatic eruption in 2021. The event was one of the most dev-
astating in the archipelago’s roughly 500 years of recorded
volcanic history. It lasted nearly 86 days, damaging more than
2,800 buildings and forcing over 7,000 people to evacuate.