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La Palma (2024)

La Palma poster
Genre
drama
Country
Norway
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 285 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Norwegian family's vacation on the island of La Palma turns into a fight for survival when scientists discover a massive volcanic eruption is about to happen. The disaster threatens to trigger a giant tsunami that could devastate the coast.

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What happens

La Palma is a Norwegian disaster drama miniseries inspired by the Cumbre Vieja tsunami hazard hypothesis and partially based on the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption. The series, primarily filmed on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, also includes scenes shot in Tenerife. The plot follows a Norwegian family on holidays in La Palma as they confront chaos when researchers uncover signs of an imminent volcanic eruption that could trigger a catastrophic tsunami. Though the series' portrayals are fictional, Cumbre Vieja is real, being the most active volcano on the island of La Palma, with eruptions recorded as far back as 125,000 years ago. It erupted in 2021, following previous blowups in 1971 and 1949. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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