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		</div><p>Several small earthquakes have shaken the Spanish island of La Palma, keeping nerves on edge as rivers of lava continued to flow towards the sea and a new volcano vent blew open.</p>
<p>The new vent is 3,000 feet north of the Cumbre Vieja ridge, where the volcano first erupted on Sunday after a week of thousands of small earthquakes.</p>
<p>That so-called earthquake swarm gave authorities on the island off the African coast a warning that an eruption was likely and allowed more than 5,000 people to be evacuated, avoiding casualties.</p>
<p>The new fissure opened after what the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute said was a 3.8 magnitude quake on Monday.</p>
<p>La Palma, with a population of some 85,000 people, is part of the volcanic Canary Islands.</p>
<p>After moving downhill across the island’s countryside since Sunday’s eruption, the lava is gradually closing in on the more densely populated coastline.</p>
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<p>Officials said a river of lava was bearing down on Todoque, where more than 1,000 people live and where emergency services were preparing evacuations.</p>
<p>About 6,000 people on La Palma have been evacuated so far and 183 houses damaged, government spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez said after a Cabinet meeting in Madrid.</p>
<p>The new vent is 900 meters (3,000 feet) north of the Cumbre Vieja ridge, where the volcano first erupted after a week of thousands of small earthquakes.</p>
<p>Lava by Tuesday had covered about 260 acres of terrain and destroyed 166 houses and other buildings, according to the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme, called Copernicus.</p>
<p>Unstoppable rivers of lava, as much 20 feet high, rolled down hillsides, burning and crushing everything in their path</p>
<p>The lava was expected to reach the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, where it could cause explosions and produce clouds of toxic gas.</p>
<p>Scientists monitoring the lava measured it at more than 1,000C (1,800F).</p>
<p>Scientists say the lava flows could last for weeks or months.</p>
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