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and I saw nothing about this on the Weather Channel.
QUOTE (Libertas @ May 12 2008, 11:58 PM) 
and I saw nothing about this on the Weather Channel.
What the bejeezus is that?!
QUOTE (who @ May 13 2008, 12:09 AM)
What the bejeezus is that?!
Sorry... I had a Chalupa for lunch...
It's the volcanic eruption going on down in South America! Wicked, isn't itl!!!
SANTIAGO, Chile: The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 30km into the Andean sky yesterday, forcing the last of thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the South American continent.
Chaiten
A cloud of smoke and ashes produced by intensified eruption of the Chaiten volcano. Picture: AP
A thick column of ash climbed into the stratosphere and blew eastward for hundreds of kilometres over Patagonia to the Atlantic Ocean, closing schools and a regional airport. Chilean and Argentine citizens were advised to wear masks to avoid breathing the dangerous fallout.
Explosions and loud groaning noises resounded from the crater of the 1000m volcano, which had been dormant for thousands of years.
Chilean officials ordered the total evacuation of Chaiten, a small provincial capital in an area of lakes and glacier-carved fjords just 10km from the roiling cloud.
Military personnel, police and journalists were being ferried to join dozens of civilians already aboard warships waiting in the fjord off Chaiten.
Interior Minister Edmundo Perez said anyone still in the area should "urgently head to ships in the bay to be evacuated".
About 4200 people, nearly the whole population of Chaiten, were evacuated over the weekend and 350 more headed out yesterday. Also emptied was the soot-coated border town of Futaleufu, about 120km from the volcano.
The eruption is the first in 9370 years, said Charles Stern, a volcanologist at the University of Colorado-Boulder who has studied Chaiten.
He said the nearby town could end up buried, much like the Roman city of Pompeii following Mount Vesuvius's eruption in the year 79. Volcanic material from Chaiten's last eruption measured up to 1.5m in places.
"What happens after today is anybody's guess," Mr Stern said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...93-2703,00.html
go to this site and check out the pics!
SANTIAGO, Chile: The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 30km into the Andean sky yesterday, forcing the last of thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the South American continent.
Chaiten
A cloud of smoke and ashes produced by intensified eruption of the Chaiten volcano. Picture: AP
A thick column of ash climbed into the stratosphere and blew eastward for hundreds of kilometres over Patagonia to the Atlantic Ocean, closing schools and a regional airport. Chilean and Argentine citizens were advised to wear masks to avoid breathing the dangerous fallout.
Explosions and loud groaning noises resounded from the crater of the 1000m volcano, which had been dormant for thousands of years.
Chilean officials ordered the total evacuation of Chaiten, a small provincial capital in an area of lakes and glacier-carved fjords just 10km from the roiling cloud.
Military personnel, police and journalists were being ferried to join dozens of civilians already aboard warships waiting in the fjord off Chaiten.
Interior Minister Edmundo Perez said anyone still in the area should "urgently head to ships in the bay to be evacuated".
About 4200 people, nearly the whole population of Chaiten, were evacuated over the weekend and 350 more headed out yesterday. Also emptied was the soot-coated border town of Futaleufu, about 120km from the volcano.
The eruption is the first in 9370 years, said Charles Stern, a volcanologist at the University of Colorado-Boulder who has studied Chaiten.
He said the nearby town could end up buried, much like the Roman city of Pompeii following Mount Vesuvius's eruption in the year 79. Volcanic material from Chaiten's last eruption measured up to 1.5m in places.
"What happens after today is anybody's guess," Mr Stern said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...93-2703,00.html
go to this site and check out the pics!
It is a new little volcano in Chile.
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http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/...te-12-may-2008/
Chaitén update, 12 May 2008 12 May 2008
Posted by volcanism in Chaitén, Chile, activity reports, eruptions, natural hazards.
A bulletin issued late yesterday by ONEMI summarizes the state of things at Chaitén volcano as follows:
Chaitén volcano maintains continual emanations of ash with a column between 5500 and 7000 metres in altitude and a plume trending east south-east towards the town of Futaleufú. At 16:30 today the column appeared dense with ashfalls on the Argentine side. The town of Futaleufú is not affected by this situation. The Meteorological Directorate of Chile reports that over the next few days predominantly western winds in the Central and South zones of the country will carry the ash towards Argentine territory.
At a press conference yesterday (11 May 2008), SERNAGEOMIN volcanologist Luis Lara said that the situation at Chaitén remains dangerous. It is unclear precisely how the eruption will develop, but ‘the persistence of a seven-kilometre-high column of pyroclastic material and a series of strong earthquakes’ means that the worst-case scenario ‘remains in force’. That worst-case scenario would involve the collapse of the eruption column, producing ‘an explosion of pyroclastic material which would fall at 200 kilometres per hour upon the valleys and water-courses of Chaitén, destroying everything in its path’ (Canal13.cl). Since the eruption began on 2 May, reported Lara, there have been continual tremors around the volcano of between two and three on the Mercalli scale (I believe Chile uses the Modified Mercalli Scale, although I am open to correction on this), with epicentres from five to ten kilometres deep. ‘Only if in the coming days we see a significant reduction of the eruptive column and are no longer registering seismicity of the kind we are seeing currently’, Lara told the Italian news agency Ansalatina, ‘will we consider that the possibility of the worst-case scenario has no validity’.
The Chilean Government minister responsible for the crisis has called Chaitén ‘the greatest and most complex natural emergency’ in Chile’s history: ‘The fundamental problem with this emergency is uncertainty. We have a volcano which has been active for eight days and has not ceased its activity. It’s like an oven that’s building up pressure and constantly hurling out ash’. Fog and rainclouds have obscured Chaitén from view over the past few days so no direct observations have been possible. SERNAGEOMIN is installing additional monitoring equipment around the volcano and maintaining a close watch on its activity (La Jornada).
The town of Puerto Montt, about 200 kilometres north of the volcano, has become the centre for the Government’s evacuation and relief operations. Food and other supplies are being distributed from military trucks to the evacuees of Chaitén, Futaleufú and surrounding areas:
‘I have been given winter squash, bananas, carrots, water. I think I can last out for four or five days’, Augusto Ampuero, a farmer who was evacuated from Chaitén, the town nearest the volcano, told Reuters. He is being looked after, with his family, by his sister who lives in Puerto Montt. ‘I left my boat, my animals and my home behind, and I don’t know what is going to happen to us’. (Reuters)
Chaitén update, 12 May 2008 12 May 2008
Posted by volcanism in Chaitén, Chile, activity reports, eruptions, natural hazards.
A bulletin issued late yesterday by ONEMI summarizes the state of things at Chaitén volcano as follows:
Chaitén volcano maintains continual emanations of ash with a column between 5500 and 7000 metres in altitude and a plume trending east south-east towards the town of Futaleufú. At 16:30 today the column appeared dense with ashfalls on the Argentine side. The town of Futaleufú is not affected by this situation. The Meteorological Directorate of Chile reports that over the next few days predominantly western winds in the Central and South zones of the country will carry the ash towards Argentine territory.
At a press conference yesterday (11 May 2008), SERNAGEOMIN volcanologist Luis Lara said that the situation at Chaitén remains dangerous. It is unclear precisely how the eruption will develop, but ‘the persistence of a seven-kilometre-high column of pyroclastic material and a series of strong earthquakes’ means that the worst-case scenario ‘remains in force’. That worst-case scenario would involve the collapse of the eruption column, producing ‘an explosion of pyroclastic material which would fall at 200 kilometres per hour upon the valleys and water-courses of Chaitén, destroying everything in its path’ (Canal13.cl). Since the eruption began on 2 May, reported Lara, there have been continual tremors around the volcano of between two and three on the Mercalli scale (I believe Chile uses the Modified Mercalli Scale, although I am open to correction on this), with epicentres from five to ten kilometres deep. ‘Only if in the coming days we see a significant reduction of the eruptive column and are no longer registering seismicity of the kind we are seeing currently’, Lara told the Italian news agency Ansalatina, ‘will we consider that the possibility of the worst-case scenario has no validity’.
The Chilean Government minister responsible for the crisis has called Chaitén ‘the greatest and most complex natural emergency’ in Chile’s history: ‘The fundamental problem with this emergency is uncertainty. We have a volcano which has been active for eight days and has not ceased its activity. It’s like an oven that’s building up pressure and constantly hurling out ash’. Fog and rainclouds have obscured Chaitén from view over the past few days so no direct observations have been possible. SERNAGEOMIN is installing additional monitoring equipment around the volcano and maintaining a close watch on its activity (La Jornada).
The town of Puerto Montt, about 200 kilometres north of the volcano, has become the centre for the Government’s evacuation and relief operations. Food and other supplies are being distributed from military trucks to the evacuees of Chaitén, Futaleufú and surrounding areas:
‘I have been given winter squash, bananas, carrots, water. I think I can last out for four or five days’, Augusto Ampuero, a farmer who was evacuated from Chaitén, the town nearest the volcano, told Reuters. He is being looked after, with his family, by his sister who lives in Puerto Montt. ‘I left my boat, my animals and my home behind, and I don’t know what is going to happen to us’. (Reuters)
OMG.... THEY FOUND THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION..... RUUUUUUUUUUUUUN 
Geez what about that face on the right?
Kinda creepy if you ask me !!
Food shortages, earthquakes...
Maybe that 'End Times' stuff is not bullshit?
And Pestilence, you can never forget Pestilence !
And McCain, with his beer and french fry stands!
Guess I'll be bathing with an electrical appliance tonight.
Kinda creepy if you ask me !!
Food shortages, earthquakes...
Maybe that 'End Times' stuff is not bullshit?
And Pestilence, you can never forget Pestilence !
And McCain, with his beer and french fry stands!
Guess I'll be bathing with an electrical appliance tonight.
QUOTE (Cabby @ May 12 2008, 09:26 PM)
Geez what about that face on the right?
Kinda creepy if you ask me !!
Food shortages, earthquakes...
Maybe that 'End Times' stuff is not bullshit?
And Pestilence, you can never forget Pestilence !
And McCain, with his beer and french fry stands!
Guess I'll be bathing with an electrical appliance tonight.
Kinda creepy if you ask me !!
Food shortages, earthquakes...
Maybe that 'End Times' stuff is not bullshit?
And Pestilence, you can never forget Pestilence !
And McCain, with his beer and french fry stands!
Guess I'll be bathing with an electrical appliance tonight.
DON'T DO IT, CABBY!
No, that's Mount Doom in Mordor! Didn't any of you watch "Lord of the Rings?"
QUOTE (Libertas @ May 12 2008, 09:58 PM)
and I saw nothing about this on the Weather Channel.
QUOTE (MoralMinority @ May 13 2008, 05:08 PM)
No, that's Mount Doom in Mordor! Didn't any of you watch "Lord of the Rings?"
QUOTE
One Ring to find them.
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the Darkness bind them.
In the land of Mordor,
Where the shodows lie
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the Darkness bind them.
In the land of Mordor,
Where the shodows lie
With Barad-Dur just over yonder mountains in Paraguay.
Update: 6000 TONS of salmon moved:
First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish — 6,000 tons of them — threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.
Some 600,000 salmon were being moved by boats Tuesday from a fish farm just eight miles from the Chaiten volcano, according to Carlos Odebret, a spokesman for Salmon Chile, the association of private salmon industries.
He said that farm was the last of several to be evacuated because officials recently reduced the size of the prohibited-entry zone around the volcano, making it accessible again to workers.
The volcano began erupting on May 2, spewing vast columns of ash and gas that spread across South America from the Pacific to the Atlantic and beyond.
All 4,500 residents of the town of Chaiten were evacuated soon after the eruption began and the future of the town is now uncertain. It has been flooded by a river that overflowed its banks, damaging scores of houses, and it has been coated in ash.
Authorities rescued hundreds of pets eight days after the eruption and removed thousands of heads of livestock. They then authorized the removal of the salmon.
Odebret told The Associated Press by telephone that small teams worked for days in the salmon operation, aided by the navy, which had speedboats on hand "in case something happened that forced a quick departure."
First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish — 6,000 tons of them — threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.
Some 600,000 salmon were being moved by boats Tuesday from a fish farm just eight miles from the Chaiten volcano, according to Carlos Odebret, a spokesman for Salmon Chile, the association of private salmon industries.
He said that farm was the last of several to be evacuated because officials recently reduced the size of the prohibited-entry zone around the volcano, making it accessible again to workers.
The volcano began erupting on May 2, spewing vast columns of ash and gas that spread across South America from the Pacific to the Atlantic and beyond.
All 4,500 residents of the town of Chaiten were evacuated soon after the eruption began and the future of the town is now uncertain. It has been flooded by a river that overflowed its banks, damaging scores of houses, and it has been coated in ash.
Authorities rescued hundreds of pets eight days after the eruption and removed thousands of heads of livestock. They then authorized the removal of the salmon.
Odebret told The Associated Press by telephone that small teams worked for days in the salmon operation, aided by the navy, which had speedboats on hand "in case something happened that forced a quick departure."
QUOTE (lipsticklobotomy @ May 28 2008, 07:34 PM)
Update: 6000 TONS of salmon moved:
First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish — 6,000 tons of them — threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.
First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish — 6,000 tons of them — threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.
Darn! And I was in the mood for some poached salmon!
QUOTE (Libertas @ May 12 2008, 11:58 PM)
and I saw nothing about this on the Weather Channel.
I see dead people.
QUOTE (Libertas @ May 12 2008, 11:58 PM)
and I saw nothing about this on the Weather Channel.
No, I see Ann Coulter, aka Gumby on Crack
QUOTE (Libertas @ May 12 2008, 11:58 PM)
and I saw nothing about this on the Weather Channel.
Oh wait, I know what this is now. It is a premonition concerning the Bush Family Retreat in South America.
QUOTE (Alildotonearth @ Jun 4 2008, 12:26 AM)
No, I see Ann Coulter, aka Gumby on Crack
Damn! I knew there was something familiar about that pic.
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