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[31] [32] The remnants of Delta then struck Morocco, where no damage was reported. August 21, 2006: Tropical Storm Debby passed south of the Cape Verde Islands as a tropical depression. A tropical storm warning was issued for the Cape Verde Islands, but was discontinued when Debby turned further westward and away from the islands.
The Cumbre Vieja tsunami hazard refers to the risk that a volcanic eruption on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, could cause a large landslide triggering a megatsunami in the Atlantic Ocean. Volcanic islands and volcanoes on land frequently undergo large landslides/collapses, which have been documented in Hawaii for example.
Fishermen of the Canary Islands had to return to and remain in port for several days while weathering the storm, and this disruption was blamed for a 10–15% reduction of the islands' tuna catch. [24] Tropical Storm Delta also had some further-reaching effects.
A German woman died after she was attacked by a shark in the Atlantic Ocean between Spain's Canary Islands and West Africa on Monday, Sept. 16, according to Reuters, CNN and Deutsche Welle.
Casualties surge as tremor leads to several buildings collapsing in the Unesco World Heritage site
A Tsunami Advisory was issued on Saturday evening following 7.6 magnitude earthquake, which occurred southwest of the Cayman Islands in the Northwest Pacific. The National Tsunami Warning Center ...
The Canary Islands (/ k ə ˈ n ɛər i /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.
The route from Africa to the Canary Islands - whose population is around 2.2 million - has experienced a 154% surge in migrants this year, with 21,620 crossings to the archipelago in the first ...