Volcanic Eruption in Chile
Volcanic eruption in the Los Lagos region of Southern Chile has forced the Chilean government to evacuate more than five thousand people to temporary shelters.
An exclusion zone of twenty kilometers around the volcano is being maintained to protect the local population, said Interior Minister Rodrigo Penalillo at the recent press conference about this natural disaster.
The National Geology and Mining Service of Chile reported that the latest analysis show the existence of six craters, four of which are the only ones that can be considered minor.
Data analysis based on the information being relayed by the monitoring stations near Calbuco (which is the site of the volcano) report that the volcano remains unstable and that further new eruptions could occur.
Calbuco which is the name of the volcano, rises to an altitude of 2,015 meters at a spot which is 1,000 kilometers from Santiago de Chile, the capital city of the country. The natural phenomenon took the country by surprise last Wednesday April 22 with a very violent eruption taking place in the Los Lagos region of Southern Chile.
A second eruption was reported on Thursday April 23rd although apparently the volcano’s energy levels seem to be receding, according to the agency reporting this information.
Flights to Puerto Montt, a very popular tourist destination, have resumed after being cancelled temporarily. Local newscasts have shown how the tons and tons of solid matter thrown up by the volcano destroyed many of the home and businesses in the town of Ensenada.
