Calbuco Volcano Erupts Again
Posted by feww on May 1, 2015
Chile’s Calbuco erupts for the third time in 8 days
The Chilean volcano, located about 1,000km south of the capital Santiago, erupted for the third time in eight days on Thursday, sending yet another column of volcanic matter up to 4km into the air.
The 2,015-meter high Calbuco, an extremely explosive andesite volcano, ejected about 200 million tons of ash into the atmosphere last week, blanketing multiple towns and communities, damaging the nearby salmon farms and forcing flight cancellation as far as the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, about 1,400 km away.
However, Thursday’s eruption was notably less powerful than the previous two explosions, which prompted the evacuation of thousands of nearby villagers.
The red alert and a 20-km exclusion zone remains in effect, said Chile’s ONEMI emergency office, as officials evacuated an additional 1,580 people.
The total number of evacuees in the Los Lagos region now stands at 6.685 people.
ONEMI has posted the following update (Spanish) on its website:
Related Links
- FIRE-EARTH ALERT: HEIGHTENED SEISMICITY and ENHANCED VOLCANISM in the Pacific Ring of Fire March 31, 2015
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- Calbuco Volcano Finally Erupts April 23, 2015
- FIRE-EARTH Volcanism Index (FEVIX) April 23, 2015
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alex gonzales said
mother earth is just returning what man has done to destroy this planet.