The invisible fact about the eruption of La Palma that scientists do not understand how it was not detected: "The most surprising..."

As much as they seem asleep, some volcanoes hide activity underground for years. This is demonstrated by a recent international study that has reconstructed the events prior to the eruption of the La Palma volcano in 2021, the longest volcanic episode in the island’s recent history. The research, carried out by a team of French and Spanish scientists, concludes that the magma under the Old Summit system would have begun to move between 10 and 15…