Chile’s Puyehue Volcano Erupts (incredible photos)
23 Ιουνίου 2011
A volcano in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle chain of south-central Chile erupted after lying dormant for more than 50 years. The government evacuated several thousand residents as Puyehue threw ash more than 6 miles (10 km) into the sky, pushing the plume toward neighboring Argentina. Authorities had already put the area around the volcano on alert after a flurry of earthquakes earlier on Saturday — at one point, the tremors reached an average of 230 per hour. Collected here are a handful of spectacular photographs of the eruption this weekend and its effects in Chile and Argentina.
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/chiles-puyehue-volcano-erupts/100081/
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