Volcano Eruption – Chile, The border between Argentina and Chile, [Copahue Volcano]

Earth Watch Report-  Volcanic Activity

A plume of ash and smoke rise from the Copahue volcano, as seen from Caviahue, in the Argentine province of Neuquen on May 24.

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30.05.2013

Volcano Eruption

Chile

The border between Argentina and Chile, [Copahue Volcano]

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Volcano Eruption in Chile on Tuesday, 28 May, 2013 at 02:45 (02:45 AM) UTC.

 

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Updated:	Thursday, 30 May, 2013 at 03:38 UTC
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The 2,965m (nearly 10,000ft) volcano – which sits in the Andes cordillera – has so far only spewed gas, but thousands of minor earth tremors have been registered in the area. Chilean Interior and Security Minister Andres Chadwick said the increased activity could lead to an eruption and officials would evacuate 2,240 people, or 460 families, within a 25-kilometre radius. “This evacuation is obligatory; it’s not voluntary,” Chadwick told reporters. Stoll not everybody is willing to leave. “No. I do not want to leave because we have chickens and it isn’t easy to leave them and go to a shelter,” resident Florinda Lipiman told the news agency Reuters. In neighbouring Argentina the authorities had first declared a “yellow alert” but later revised it to the highest level. They have now ordered the evacuation of at least 600 people from the town of Caviahue to the neighbouring city of Loncopue where the crisis committee said than an eruption “can take place at any moment now” Fears run deep as Copahue’s new eruptive cycle began in July 1992 when the crater lake explosions ejected rock fragments, white dust, large amounts of green and yellow liquid sulphur. In July 2000 Copahue registered its largest eruption in 100 years. Eruption of lapilli, ash, and bombs occurred at the volcano. Bombs up to 13 cm in diameter were ejected more than 8 km from the summit, and ash fell 100 km away.

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Chile, Argentina Order Evacuation Around Stirring Volcano

 

A plume of ash and smoke rise from the Copahue volcano, as seen from Caviahue, in the Argentine province of Neuquen on May 24.

 

Tuesday, 28 May 2013 03:47 AM

 

 

 

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SANTIAGO/BUENOS AIRES — Chilean and Argentine authorities on Monday declared a red alert and ordered the mandatory evacuation of a 25-kilometer (15.5-mile) radius around the active Copahue volcano, which straddles the border between the two Andean nations.The volcano — located some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of capital Santiago, between Chile’s Bio Bio region and Argentina’s Neuquen province — has seen increasing seismic activity in recent weeks but has not erupted, Chilean authorities said.

“This doesn’t necessarily mean the volcano will start erupting. But according to the Sernageomin (National Geological and Mining Service), the volcano is now in a process that could culminate in an eruption, for that reason we’ve issued a red alert and the evacuation,” Chilean Interior Minister Andres Chadwick told a nationally televised news conference.

Authorities estimated that some 2,240 people will be evacuated in Chile.

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Chile issued a top-level red alert Sunday for its Copahue volcano, in the south on the Andean border with Argentina

Chile volcano alert raised

by Staff Writers
Santiago (AFP)

A woman takes a picture with her mobile phone of the Copahue volcano spewing ash on Dec. 22, in Caviahue, Neuquen province, Argentina. Antonio Huglich / AFP – Getty Images

Chile issued a top-level red alert Sunday for its Copahue volcano, in the south on the Andean border with Argentina, as it rumbled to register a greater potential threat.

The National Emergency Office issued a red alert but did not order evacuations as no towns are in the current risk area.

“The intensity of seismic signals suggests the eruption in progress is on the smaller side (but) we are not ruling out the possibility that the activity could turn into a larger-scale eruption,” the Geology and Mining Service said in a statement.

While the 2,965-meter (9,700 foot) volcano straddles the two countries’ border, its crater, where most of the activity was under way, leans toward the Argentine side, experts told AFP.

And population in the area is sparse: about 500 people live in Copahue, a tourist town famous for its spa waters, about 900 in the town of Caviahue and an estimated 800 more in local indigenous Mapuche communities.

The June 2011 eruption of Chile’s Puyehue volcano interfered with air travel in much of the southern cone of South America and as far away as Australia.

 

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