A large molten lava bomb has been filmed hurtling down the hillside after being chucked out of the erupting volcano in the Canary Islands.
The red hot piece of lava could be seen rolling at speed down the side of the volcano before coming to a stand still in the amazing footage from La Palma.
Eruptions from the Cumbre Vieja volcano have continued to light up the sky on Friday night with no end in sight with so far around 2,000 buildings have been destroyed and 7,000 people evacuated.
In the last few days the lava flows have appeared more fluid and the the track, labelled “number three” is currently the most worrying as it heads to the coastal villages of La Bombilla and Puerto Naos.
Maria Jose Blanco, director of Spain’s National Geographic Institute on the Canary Islands, said that the volcano is erupting “furiously” at the moment rather than showing signs of slowing down.
The number three track has progressed around 900 metres in the last 24 hours said Ms Blanco and covering land that has not so far been affected by the lava flow.
It is forcing some of those who have not so far been evacuated from villages in the area to have to leave their homes.
Volcanologists have studied the lava bomb, the name given when the lava balls are larger than 64mm, and a video which has gone viral shows that the inside which is still red hot.
German scientist Harri Geiger’s clip of the rock has now had over 356,000 times.
The volcano has now been erupting for more than five weeks and there continue to be regular earthquakes in La Palma.
An earthquake on Tuesday was felt up to 60 miles away on other parts of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off northwest Africa.
The rivers of lava cover over 900 hectares of mostly farmland, while one major flow is extending the island into the Atlantic as it cools.
