What officials now fear is that the rest of the mountain may come crashing down, burying everything in its path and stopping only when it reaches the Atlantic.
Last week,despite efforts to build dikes and remove surface garbage, the fissures continued to expand at an unrelenting rate of 0.5 cm per hour. With the crisis showing no sing of abatement, the mayor petitioned the Spanish government to declare his city a national disaster petitioned the Spanish government to declare his city a national disaster petitioned the Spanish government to declare his city a national disaster area.