[Turing_Machine]

It says in the article that 8 people were killed in the eruption of 1808, more than 200 years ago. From Wikipedia, the most recent significant eruption in the Azores was in 1957. No one was killed.

People have been living in the Azores since the 1400s.

I'm willing to bet that the risk from volcanic eruption in the Azores is considerably less than the risk from, say, traffic accidents in a major mainland city.

[DoingIsLearning]

Also not really a factor nowadays but if you were farming on volcanic land in the 1400's it would have been insanely fertile (andisol).

[santialbo]

Noone died in La Palma, but thousands of families lost their lifelong belongings.