La Palma island braces for more quakes as volcano roars on

Lava flows from a volcano on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain (Emilio Morenatti/AP)

Residents on Spain’s La Palma island are bracing for the possibility of bigger earthquakes more than five weeks after a volcano erupted.

Seismologists said a 4.6 magnitude earthquake shook the island a day after they recorded a 4.9 magnitude quake that was the strongest so far of the hundreds that have occurred under La Palma since the volcano’s September 19 eruption.