Volcano Eruption : Red Hot Chile's Puyehue Disaster

Friday, June 17, 2011

Volcano Eruption : Red Hot Chile's Puyehue Disaster

Red Hot Chile's Puyehue Disaster

Terrible eruption which occurred at the volcano Puyehue in Chile, about 870 km south of Santiago on 05/06/2011, is something that is shocking, frightening, destructive, but it also provides superb scenery will amaze just how wild nature can react .

Volcanic explosion capable of launching a giant mushroom contains smoke, gas and ash to a height of 10 kilometers is not only caused local officials need to evacuate nearly 3,500 people populated, but also able to transmit problems to the neighboring country, Argentina.

Across the southern part of Argentina is now almost like a ghost town, the schools closed, all types of work suspended, and even the medical activities that involve electricity, such as surgery, pure can not be handled.

Air transportation in southern Argentina is currently not functioning well due to grounding the airline's flagship closed ash, and some tourist resorts which are usually beautiful snow-covered now looks miserable because of the dust heap. And when people mess around with the problem of transport Argentina (35 flights have been canceled and some roads have been officially closed), residents in the southern part of Chile is still dealing with the ash that seemed endless down to earth.

As information, Chile has more than 3,000 volcanoes that extends lengthwise along the back of the Andes, and 500 of them geologically active otherwise. About 60 of that number has erupted in the last 450 years.

Views of the volcano Puyehue in Chile, about 870 km south of Santiago, dated June 5, 2011

Volcanoes in the mountains of Puyehue-Cordon Caulle in Chile erupted, spewing smoke and pumice into the air as far as 5 kilometers

Yet many residents are reluctant to evacuate, fearing their homes will be stolen. They also worry about the fate of their cattle.

Quick spektuler appear among the volcanic cloud on Sunday (5 / 6) evening. But the amazing spectacle that is very dangerous. The area was imposed alert and 3,500 local people were evacuated.

This eruption also affected neighboring countries, Argentina. Pumice stones from the volcano was discovered by border police in Argentina Cardenal Samore border post between Chile and Argentina.

Volcanic ash rained down as well as border areas Cardenal Samore snow in Argentina. Residents said the situation was like a solar eclipse, because the dust filled the sky and blotted out the sun.

In Bariloche, an important tourist place in Argentina, it seems that the tourists can not play golf because of thick volcanic ash blanketed.

The cars are also covered with ash. Authorities ordered residents to stay indoors to avoid inhaling ash.

Even in Puerto Madryn on the Atlantic coast of Argentina, located 700 kilometers from the mountains of Puyehue-Cordon Caulle in Chile, like a cloudy atmosphere