A few hours ago Volcano Calbuco in southern Chile erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years.
According to CNN Chile, a Red Alert was issued for the surrounding area. An estimated 1500 people are being asked to evacuate within a six mile radius.
“The eruption happened about half an hour ago, Derek Way, a nearby resident told Reuters earlier in the day. “There are a lot of people out in the streets, many heading to the gas stations to fill up on gas.”
Mayor Gervoy Paredes told the BBC that residents were “very, very frightened.”
Neighboring Argentina also put its citizens on alert, specifically in the city of Bariloche that sits about 100km from Calbuco. Ash clouds are expected to hit the city tonight.
Authorities also noted to the BBC that “no hot rocks or lava had been seen so far, only ash. However, experts warned that local rivers could be flooded by melting snow and ice.”
Check out a few of the tweets and images we found, along with a few shared on our Facebook community from residents of the area.
https://twitter.com/elrafaarenas/status/591004749526409217
https://twitter.com/JimDalrympleII/status/591009895098355712
https://twitter.com/palomapoblete/status/590992465991172097
And snow showers during the Pirate game at PNC Park (and a whole lot of other places in the Northeast and RustBelt).
Great post and links....these “ironies” happen a lot w/AGWarming Hoax.
Fracking causes volcanoes to erupt.
Do they have no smoking outside rules in Chile like they do in NYC?
Two recent volcanoes are raising concerns. The Chilean one, because it is of the brittle type of rock that explodes with a major eruption, somewhat like Krakatoa.
The other one is the Paektu Mountain volcano between North Korea and China, that has the potential to cause an eruption ten times the size of the Mount Pinatubo eruption.
Ironically, Paektu is located so much on the northeast of North Korea that it would not endanger the North Korean capital as much as the Russian city of Vladivostok and the northern Japanese Island.