Last week marked a month since the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted. As a result of this first explosion that occurred on September 19, the lava emanating from the volcano continues to destroy everything in its path. According to the Copernicus satellite of the European Union, the magma from the volcano has covered a total of 906.3 hectares and affected 2,162 buildings or constructions, among which are all types of homes, health centers and even schools.
A story that has spread to the rest of the planet, where we can see media from all corners of the world echoing the latest information that comes from the island located in the archipelago. Among them the American CBS, which has gone viral just a few hours ago for its mistake when placing La Palma on the map. Despite the fact that the journalist refers to La Palma as a volcanic island, her fellow graphic designers have located the epicenter of the eruption on the peninsula.
The CBS locates the eruption of the volcano in the Murcian region of La Palma
Specifically in the Region of Murcia, where we can find a town known as La Palma very close to Cartagena. During these last weeks, both national and international reporters have on numerous occasions confused the island of La Palma with Las Palmas or Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. But not only that. They have also come to confuse it with Palma de Mallorca, located in the Balearic Islands.
However, they had never before confused the one known as beautiful island with a region located on the peninsula. A failure, which places the eruption 2,219 kilometers from its real location, which has not been overlooked by social networks. Despite the fact that the newscast has corrected the error in a matter of minutes, the Twitter community has begun to joke with the fact that the eruption of the volcano occurred in the Region of Murcia.
“Acho, the volcano”: the networks react to the new location of the volcano
After CBS located the volcano in the Murcian district, the networks have begun to make all kinds of jokes about it: “I didn’t know that there was a volcano in the park of my house. “ While some have imagined what the eruption of a volcano of this caliber in the Murcia region would be like, others have preferred to remind the Twitter community that the majority of peninsular people did not know where the island was until this phenomenon occurred.
On the other hand, there have also been several who have charged against US society for its problems with geography: “At least they have not put it in Mexico.” However, there are also those who assure that it is not a failure and that they are only images of a normal day in Murcia in the middle of August.
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