Mass Evacuation ordered after Colombian volcano erupts
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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Mass Evacuation ordered after Colombian volcano erupts
* By staff writers
* From: NewsCore
* August 26, 2010 6:25AM
COLOMBIAN officials today raised the alert on the Galeras volcano to "red", the highest level, and ordered the evacuation of 8000 people after it began spewing smoke and ash.
The small eruption, which was not an explosion, occurred at 4am local time, officials said.
Martha Calvache, under director of the state geological service, said the volcano is "emitting ash, and lava has been detected in the crater".
"The volcano is in a very unstable phase," she said. "There hasn't been a major eruption or quakes, but in no way can you think that nothing is happening."
The Galeras volcano, situated in Narino province near Colombia's southern border with Ecuador, is the country's most active volcano, with a half dozen eruptions over the past two years.
Officials from Colombia's Institute of Geology and Mining (Ingeominas) say the once-dormant volcano reactivated in 2004.
Galeras erupted in November 2009, leading authorities to evacuate about 1000 people, although no one was hurt. Most recently, the mountain briefly rumbled back to life in January.
A 1993 eruption of Galeras, which rises in the Andes mountain chain to an altitude of more than 4000m, killed nine people, including six scientists who had descended its crater to take gas samples.
Mass Evacuation ordered after Colombian volcano erupts
* By staff writers
* From: NewsCore
* August 26, 2010 6:25AM
COLOMBIAN officials today raised the alert on the Galeras volcano to "red", the highest level, and ordered the evacuation of 8000 people after it began spewing smoke and ash.
The small eruption, which was not an explosion, occurred at 4am local time, officials said.
Martha Calvache, under director of the state geological service, said the volcano is "emitting ash, and lava has been detected in the crater".
"The volcano is in a very unstable phase," she said. "There hasn't been a major eruption or quakes, but in no way can you think that nothing is happening."
The Galeras volcano, situated in Narino province near Colombia's southern border with Ecuador, is the country's most active volcano, with a half dozen eruptions over the past two years.
Officials from Colombia's Institute of Geology and Mining (Ingeominas) say the once-dormant volcano reactivated in 2004.
Galeras erupted in November 2009, leading authorities to evacuate about 1000 people, although no one was hurt. Most recently, the mountain briefly rumbled back to life in January.
A 1993 eruption of Galeras, which rises in the Andes mountain chain to an altitude of more than 4000m, killed nine people, including six scientists who had descended its crater to take gas samples.
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