ERUPTIONS IN TENERIFFE.
BIG STREAM OF LAVA. By Telegraph— Association,--Copyright London, November ;55L After a succession of earthquakes, three craters appeared in the south side of the Pico, de Teyde, Teneriffe.
These emitted streams .of lava, that from the largest -flowing/ down the mountain side at, a width of 500 yds. This stream is now a mile long; and is flowing at the rate of 6yds an hour, threatening the villages of Icod and ■Garachico, the inhabitants of which-, have fled. ' The eruption is now diminishing.
The Pico do Teyde, or Peak of Tcneriffe, a famous volcano that has long been dormant, stands in the* south-west of the island of Teneriffo, attains an altitude of ; 12,200 ft, and can bo seen more than 100 . miles off. In 1795 and 1798 there was volcanic activity, but the present is tho first eruption sinoe then, though sulphurous vapours have always exhaled rom.:. some of the crevices of the Peak. ■■ :-,,;'; " '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14225, 23 November 1909, Page 5
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