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The ash cloud coming from Chile's Puyehue volcano. (AAP)
[quote]A thick plume of ash from the erupting Puyehue volcano in the Andes shifted direction into Chile on Sunday after spewing volcanic dust over parts of Argentina.
North-westerly winds pushed the giant column of ash from the Chilean volcano, located 870km south of the capital Santiago near the border with Argentina, into Chile's Lago Ranco area.
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The eruption forced some 3,500 people to be evacuated from 22 rural Chilean communities.
"This change means that we will have ash falling in the area, with damage to the population and a threat to small farmers," Lago Ranco Mayor Santiago Rosas told AFP.
The volcano, located in the Andes 2,240m above the sea level, appeared to have largely gone quiet on Sunday, though Chile's Office of National Emergencies (ONEMI) said it was experiencing a "moderate" level of erupting.
The Puyehue rumbled to life on Saturday after showing no activity since 1960, when it was awoken following a magnitude 9.5 earthquake.
"There are some people, especially heads of family, that have decided to stay home and take a risk. The government, for the time being, will not interfere in that individual decision," said the regional governor in Chile, Juan Andres Varas.
The eruption forced the nearby Argentine resort town of Bariloche, population 50,000, to declare a state of emergency on Saturday and close down its airport.
The eruption also forced a major border crossing point to close due to low visibility, an dropped ash on the upscale Argentine resort town of Villa La Angostura.
Bariloche, located about 100km east of the volcano, had covered in a sooty blanket of several centimeters thick and remained under a state of emergency.
The picturesque town, as well as others in the vicinity affected by the ash, welcomes thousands of foreign tourists each year to its lakes and mountain scenery, as well as ski slopes in the winter months.
Chile has some 3,000 volcanoes, of which some 500 are geologically active and 60 have erupted in the past half century.
In 2008 the eruption of the Chaiten volcano, also in southern Chile, spread a thick cloud of ash across a large swath of South America, grounding flights across the region. Ash from that eruption drifted east as far as the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.[/quote]
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Chilly Volcano for sure.
Reminds me of that volcano that erupted sometime in the past.
It was some Icelandic volcano with the confusing name? The pictures were incredible. I'd appreciate it if someone would post the pics.
If it helps, there was lightning everywhere.
Eyjafjallajökull, was it?
Aha. I found one of the pictures.
[img]http://data.earthli.com/news/attachments/entry/2367/e01_23056097.jpg[/img]
Can't find the others.
Holy shit these look scary
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Especially the red lightning
The lightning looks really, really badass.
[QUOTE=Superstormj;30304211][IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/34gvw5w.jpg[/IMG]
Chilly Volcano for sure.[/QUOTE]
:rimshot:
[QUOTE=WarRocker32;30304280]Aha. I found one of the pictures.
[IMG]http://data.earthli.com/news/attachments/entry/2367/e01_23056097.jpg[/IMG]
Can't find the others.[/QUOTE]
I still have the other ones saved on my computer.
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Note to the people who didn't read: This is Eyjafjallajökull and not the one in Chile.
Yeah, the ash cloud is now over Buenos Aires and tomorrow will be here over Montevideo. Dunno what to expect.
[QUOTE=WarRocker32;30304280]Aha. I found one of the pictures.
[img]http://data.earthli.com/news/attachments/entry/2367/e01_23056097.jpg[/img]
Can't find the others.[/QUOTE]
It's like Mother Nature saying [B][I]FUCK YOU HUMANS![/I][/B] :ohdear:
[QUOTE=Zero Ziat;30305177]Yeah, the ash cloud is now over Buenos Aires and tomorrow will be here over Montevideo. Dunno what to expect.[/QUOTE]
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Nah, no hay nada acá en Baires... todavía :ohdear:
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negative and positive charges all up in this bitch
Those ash clouds look fucking awesome.
[QUOTE=Firewarrior;30304614]I still have the other ones saved on my computer.
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/7sepuu92w_ejafjalla16apr2010mfulle4136j.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/LSh9q.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/tkiscgazs_ejafjalla16apr2010mfulle4145j.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/U7UY1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/waxxbpjnr_ejafjalla16apr2010mfulle4143j.jpg[/IMG]
Note to the people who didn't read: This is Eyjafjallajökull and not the one in Chile.[/QUOTE]
damn nature
you scary
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I am at a loss for words at how fucking cool that is.
[QUOTE=Haxxer;30307314][img]http://www.askamathematician.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/chilevolcano.jpg[/img]
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The is the most stunning, badass, evil looking thing I have ever seen. Mother nature is amazing (and scary).
look at all that lightning!
I wonder what causes lightning over volcanoes to seem red all of the time. I figure volcanoes have a habit of spewing up a lot of sulphur so perhaps when the lightning strikes a lot of sulphur gets excited to higher energy levels. Although I'm finding it hard to find what colour sulphur would emit in such a case (it does have red spectral lines, but then again, it has blue and green spectral lines too).
Bah. I dunno.
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Do you see it?
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Holy shit, does that look like a portal to hell or what
I wont be impressed until I can have that in a handheld version.
And this shit is an occurance of nature alone. Volcanic thunderstorms look like something from Hell itself, almost like some sort of awesome Destruction magic.
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