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A Volcano Just Erupted in Chile, Spewing Ash For Miles
RYOT Blog ^ | 4-22-15

Posted on 04/22/2015 7:38:25 PM PDT by kingattax

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. There are a lot of people out in the streets, many heading to the gas stations to fill up on gas,” Derek Way, a resident of Puerto Varas, told Reuters.

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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; chile; volcano
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To: kingattax

It was called the Great Chilean Earthquake. On May 22, 1960, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded struck Chile near the town of Valdivia. The Valdivia quake measured an astounding 9.5 out of 10 on the Richter Scale. This was a true monster. This single geological event acounted for 25% of all the energy released by all the earthquakes for the century after the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The Valdivia earthquake packed the energy of 178 million tons of TNT. The earth shook, not for seconds, but for as long as 5 minutes. Coastal villages disappeared. A tsunami of 26 feet overwhelmed the Chilean coast. The giant tsunami stretched out across the Pacific at 200 miles per hour and caused massive destruction. It crashed into Hawaii with 35-foot high waves and also devastated portions of costal Japan.


21 posted on 04/22/2015 8:59:52 PM PDT by concernedcitizen76 (Term limits. Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments. Sunset bureaucracies.)
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To: EBH

The Year Without a Summer (1816) a.k.a. “Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death” was caused by a southern hemisphere eruption, and affected the whole earth.


22 posted on 04/22/2015 9:47:26 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: kingattax

We’ll need the EPA to force Volcanoes to go electric. To much carbon.


23 posted on 04/22/2015 10:04:13 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: kingattax

Does anybody know where to find a virgin?
You know, to throw in...


24 posted on 04/23/2015 12:54:48 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: outofsalt

you in charge of chilean volcanoes ? lol


25 posted on 04/23/2015 12:57:05 AM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: kingattax

Ash alert!


26 posted on 04/23/2015 1:19:11 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

LOL!


27 posted on 04/23/2015 5:56:03 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: All
My daughter's boyfriend just texted me a YouTube link to the eruption.
28 posted on 04/23/2015 8:15:34 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: kingattax

I am so screwed.


29 posted on 04/23/2015 8:16:16 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Jeb Bush makes John McCain look like Barry Goldwater.)
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To: The_Reader_David

Actually I’ve been known to argue the past two brutal winters have nothing to do with Global Warming, but are the direct result of the Icelandic volcanoes.


30 posted on 04/23/2015 1:01:38 PM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: concernedcitizen76; EBH; kingattax; The_Reader_David; SunkenCiv; All

Poor Chile has had its share of troubles. They just had a volcano erupt a few weeks ago, Villarica, I think. Here is a great site with lots of volcano pictures, starting with Calbuco, and then Villarica, don’t know about the rest.

https://www.google.com/search?q=volcano+in+chile+yesterday&num=50&newwindow=1&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=76Y4VfOaHMr5ggSUl4HQBw&ved=0CEAQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=775

About our recent cold northern winters, it might be Iceland volcanoes, but some say it’s changes in air currents caused by more open water in the Arctic Ocean. Do you have any data on volume of airborne particles from recent Iceland volcano activity?


31 posted on 04/23/2015 2:27:24 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: concernedcitizen76; SunkenCiv; All

Here is an additional link with active photos and video of the current Calbuco eruption.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/23/americas/chile-volcano/


32 posted on 04/23/2015 2:59:10 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

http://www.livescience.com/43588-volcanoes-global-warming-pause.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/04/could-icelands-volcano-slow-global-warming/39066/


33 posted on 04/23/2015 4:43:49 PM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: EBH; SunkenCiv; All

Here is some more on Calbuco. Scientists are saying a third even more powerful eruption may happen.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/23/americas/chile-volcano/


34 posted on 04/23/2015 9:49:42 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: TurboZamboni

Pour some cement down that thing and seal it up! ;)


35 posted on 04/23/2015 10:18:03 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: gleeaikin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks gleeaikin.

36 posted on 04/24/2015 10:05:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: kingattax
It'll be very interesting to see what happens to the world's climate after the Calbuco volcano erupted. If this is a sustained eruption over several days, it may be enough to cause some cooling of the atmosphere, and could temporarily change the rain patterns around the world.

Remember, when the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted in the spring of 2010, the result was one of the highest winter rainfall totals in the state of California for the 2010-2011 rainy season.

37 posted on 04/24/2015 8:14:59 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: gleeaikin

Chile volcano, then giant Nepal earthquake. Disaster following disaster in divers places. Animals and some psychics can feel them coming. After the Boxing Day 2004 Indonesian quake and tsunami that killed over 240,000 people, I recall reading stories from tourists in Thailand who said that, days before the disaster struck, dogs, cats, rats, even elephants were scamping off to higher ground. That should have been the clue to follow them!


38 posted on 04/27/2015 5:08:15 PM PDT by concernedcitizen76 (Term limits. Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments. Sunset bureaucracies.)
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To: concernedcitizen76; SunkenCiv; All

I read that on an island in the Indian Ocean, where the people were very “backward” and primitive, they observed the animals and all moved to high ground, and no one died.


39 posted on 04/28/2015 2:55:06 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: kingattax
MMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....

Volcano chiiiiiiilleeeeeee........

40 posted on 04/28/2015 3:19:25 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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