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A person is killed and 24 are missing after a migrant vessel crashes off the coast of Spain's Canary Islands.
2022-04-26

More than 100 homes on the island of La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands are destroyed by lava flows, and 5,000 people are evacuated. Several schools on the island suspend classes.
2021-09-20

The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, erupts for the first time in fifty years. A few hours later, the first preventive evacuations of people with reduced mobility from nearby towns took place after the declaration of a state of pre-eruption.
2021-09-19

A boat capsizes off the coast of Mauritania with 47 people on board presumed dead. The Mauritanian Coast Guard rescues several people from the sea. The boat had departed from Western Sahara and was travelling to the Canary Islands, Spain.
2021-08-17

Spain confirms its third case in Tenerife, Canary Islands, from an Italian tourist.
2020-02-24

The Ministry of Health of Spain confirms the first case of coronavirus in the country in La Gomera, Canary Islands, from a German tourist.
2020-01-31

The foreign ministries of Spain and Morocco announce they will hold talks to resolve a dispute over territorial water rights in the North Atlantic, caused by the Moroccan parliament passing two laws that extended its claims to the coast of Western Sahara earlier this week. Spain expressed concerns that these laws would encroach on its claims near the Canary Islands.
2020-01-24

Residents of El Hierro in Spain's Canary Islands are evacuated following continuing volcanic activity.
2011-11-5

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake hits the southern coast of El Hierro in the southwestern Canary Islands of Spain, the strongest such earthquake to occur in an earthquake swarm on the island. The quake is believed to have been caused by rising magma, which has forced evacuations amid fears of an impending volcanic eruption, which last occurred on El Hierro in 1793. [https:--web.archive.org-web-20111010021700-http:--www.irishweatheronline.com-news-earth-science-geology-volcanic-alert-in-effect-on-el-hierro-as-4-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-41200.html (Irish Weather Online)] [http:--www.dailymail.co.uk-news-article-2042873-Earthquake-swarm-Canary-Island-El-Hierro-sparks-fears-volcanic-eruption.html?ito=feeds-newsxml ("Daily Mail")] [http:--www.philstar.com-Article.aspx?articleId=731865&publicationSubCategoryId=200 ("Philippine Star")]date=August 2019
2011-10-9

Four airports in the Canary Islands and three in southern Spain are closed, Spain's air traffic control agency Aena said.
2010-05-11