Posted on 05/02/2008 1:35:18 PM PDT by Strategerist
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Hundreds of people fled remote villages in southern Chile on Friday after a snowcapped volcano erupted, sending minor earthquakes rippling through the region.
The Chaiten volcano belched fire and ash on Thursday night, causing more than 60 small tremors in Los Lagos, a region about 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) south of the capital of Santiago.
More tremors can be expected in the coming days, warned Emergency Bureau Director Carmen Fernandez.
The government evacuated as many as 1,500 people from nearby villages and the town of Chaiten, just 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) from the volcano, as ash rained down on homes and local water supplies. Officials distributed fresh water and more than 10,000 protective masks, Fernandez and Interior Minister Edmundo Perez said.
Winds also carried ash over the Andes to Argentina, where school was suspended in the popular Patagonian tourist towns of Esquel and Trevelin. Authorities there also declared a state of alert on major highways as falling ash reduced visibility, and hospitals reported an patients complaining of eye irritation.
Chaiten is a small caldera with no known eruptions since 7420 BC.
Feel free to pile on with the same idiotic and ill-informed jokes about Al Gore and Carbon credits and whatnot that have been on every Volcano thread for five years.
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1508-041
Enough to tip us to full scale global cooling?
Break out the Hot Dogs.
Bush’s Fault Global Warming, Illegal War in Iraq and Recession .....Yeah think I covered all the talking points.
Those would be Chile Dogs.......
Sample headline: "Exclusivo: ¡Volcán en erupción!"
Volcanic ash is very dangerous to jet engines. I hope Al Gore doesn’t try to fly down there and sell them some carbon credits.
The farther a volcano is away from the equator, the less effect on world climate it seems to have. This one is pretty far away from the equator.
Depends on just how big the eruption ends up being. There was an eruption a few years back at Cerro Hudson in Chile that was bigger than Mt. St. Helens, and didn’t have any climate effect as far as I know.
Not much in the way of air routes down there, fortunately.
Yes, now we need an explosion at the Frito factory.
This is a good sized spewer.
Science Daily
Chile's Chaiten Volcano One Of Scores Of Active Volcanoes In Region
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A cloud of smoke produced by intensified eruption of the Chaiten
volcano is seen Tuesday May 6, 2008 in southern Chile.
The eruption spewed incandescent material and blated ash
some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky, forcing authorites
to a complete evacuation of the area incluiding the nearby town of Chaiten.
(AP Photo/Alvaro Vidal)
link for the article above
Science Daily
Chile’s Chaiten Volcano One Of Scores Of Active Volcanoes In Region
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080507105654.htm
A cloud of smoke and ashes produced by intensified eruption of the Chaiten volcano are seen over Chaiten on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, in southern Chile. The eruption spewed incandescent material and blated ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky, forcing authorities to a complete evacuation of the area. (AP Photo/La Tercera)
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