Volcano Eruption – Guatemala, Quetzaltenango Department, [Santiaguito volcano]

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Santa María / Santiaguito volcano

Stratovolcano 3772 m (12,375 ft)
Guatemala, 14.76°N / -91.55°W
Santa María / Santiaguito volcano eruptions:
1902 (catastrophic Plinian eruption), 1903, 1922 (from SW flank: Santiaguito), 2002-ongoing
Typical eruption style:
Dominantly explosive, formation of lava domes
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23.09.2013

Volcano Eruption

Guatemala

Quetzaltenango Department, [Santiaguito volcano]

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Volcano Eruption in Guatemala on Monday, 23 September, 2013 at 03:20 (03:20 AM) UTC.

Description

Another violent eruption occurred at the lava dome yesterday morning (21 Sep) at 8:30 local time. Accompanied by explosions, the Caliente dome suddenly produced a series of major pyroclastic flows triggered by collapse of accumulated viscous lava at the southeastern rim rim and flank of the dome. The flows descended on all sides of the lava dome. The explosions, accompanied by shock waves that could be heard in 20 km radius, produced an ash plume that rose to about 4.5 km altitude or about 2 km height above the crater. Significant (but smaller compared) ash plume rose from the pyroclastic flows. Ash fall occurred in Quetzaltenango, Santa María de Jesús, Zuníl and other areas downwind. There has been no recognized precursor to the eruption, illustrating that the activity of the lava dome is highly unpredictable and potentially extremely dangerous. A similar eruption occurred almost exactly one month ago.

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Fire – Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Maria : 245 dead in Nightclub fire

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27.01.2013

Fire

Brazil

Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Maria

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Fire in Brazil on Sunday, 27 January, 2013 at 11:20 (11:20 AM) UTC.

Description

At least 90 people were killed in a nightclub fire caused by a pyrotechnics show in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria, local media reported on Sunday. Estado de S.Paulo reported on its website that as many as 2,000 people were in the nightclub when the fire started, and that police were still counting the dead.

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At least 245 killed in Brazil nightclub fire

Posted on: 12:24 pm, January 27, 2013, by Nick Dutton

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By Shasta Darlington, Marilia Brocchetto and Helena DeMoura

SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNN) — Panicked crowds pushed toward the exits as fire swept through a packed nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday.

Hundreds didn’t escape in time from the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria.

The blaze killed at least 245 people, many of whom apparently died from smoke inhalation, police said. Others were trampled in the rush for the exits, one security guard told CNN affiliate Band News. Investigators said dozens were injured.

About 2,000 people were inside the club when the fire broke out — double the maximum capacity of 1,000, said Guido de Melo, a state fire official.

Investigators have received preliminary information that security guards stopped people from exiting the club, he told Globo TV.

“This overcrowding made it difficult for people to leave, and according to the information we have, the security guards kept people from leaving the building,” he said.

The fire started “from out of nowhere” on a stage at the club and quickly spread to the ceiling, witness Jairo Vieira told Band News.

“People started running,” survivor Luana Santos Silva told Globo TV. “I fell on the floor.”

Smoke billowed outside the front of the building as the stench of fire filled the air, said Max Muller, who was riding by on his motorbike when he saw the blaze.

Muller recorded video of a chaotic scene outside the club, which showed emergency crews tending to victims and dazed clubgoers standing in the street. Bodies lay on the ground beside ambulances.

 

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