Ecuador volcano erupts, villagers evacuate

[Ronan Kelly]

Ecuador volcano erupts, villagers evacuate
28 May 2010 20:39:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Hundreds of families moved to safety

* Guayaquil airport closed after ash covers runway

* Second volcano to erupt in Latin America on Friday (Updates with Guayaquil airport closed, details)

By Santiago Silva

QUITO, May 28 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean villagers fled their homes after the Andean nation's "Throat of Fire" volcano erupted on Friday, spewing ash that forced officials to reroute some flights and close an airport, authorities said.

In the second volcanic eruption in Latin America on Friday, loud explosions shook the ground and rattled windows near the volcano known as Tungurahua in the indigenous Quechua language, 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Quito, officials said.

Residents close to the 5,020-meter (16,500 feet) volcano were evacuated from Cusua and Juive Grande villages, the president's office said in a statement.

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Re: Ecuador volcano erupts, villagers evacuate

Government is employed at three potential stages of activity of the volcano Tungurahua

Quito (Steal) .-The volcano Tungurahua supports in alert to the authorities, entities, organisms of response, Police, the Red Cross, Fire department and to the social institutions of the sector, which forces to adopt a series of preventive measurements opposite to three potential stages raised by the technicians in the meetings of the Committee of Operations National COEN, there showed Miguel Carvajal, the minister Coordinador de la Seguridad, in the ceremony organized owing to the Week of Civil Defense, quen it was carried out this Wednesday, the 02nd of June.
The first stage is that it supports the intensity of the volcano and the energy, which would not mean a major situation. The second one, that produce to themselves explosions as the presented ones last May 28, with fall of ash and flows pirocl?sticos, and the third one that presents to itself a violent eruption.

The secretary of State supported that there is a joint work between the Geophysical Institute of the Polytechnical National School, as technical entity responsible for the volcanic alertness in the equator, and in form articulated with the parochial social, together organizations, municipalities, peasants of the zone representations of producers, businessmen of Chamber of Agriculture and Cattle, members of Armed forces, Police officer, Firemen, entities that have demonstrated a big solidarity opposite to the emergency through that the central zone of the country lives.
Carvajal emphasized the positive response that the entities offered person in charge opposite to the emergency of the previous week, which demonstrates the heap of experiences acquired more 10 years, for all the social actors, municipality, Geophysical Institute, to be able to react appropriately, to answer with efficacy in the persons' evacuation, in the transfer of animals and the human reestablishments in three luggers, which guarantees that there diminishes the population exposed to the eruption of the volcano.

Finally, it highlighted the attitude of the volunteers of Civil Defense, they he said ?son an important example about how the country can advance and advancing ?, and it accumulating experience and that makes us have aptitude to react appropriately opposite to all the phenomena that the country is exhibited, it is a part of ours opposite to the diverse events of the nature. / National secretary of Management of Risks

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Re: Ecuador volcano erupts, villagers evacuate

Weather News: 'Throat of fire' explodes

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Loud explosions at a volcano in Ecuador are shaking the ground and blowing fiery rocks and magma into the sky.

The volcano is called Tungurahua, or the 'throat of fire,' and it is living up to its name.

Volcanic activity was increasing on Thursday at the 5,000-metre volcano, which is southeast of Quito.

Experts from the Geophysical Institute, which monitors the throat of fire, warn that the volcano will find a way to release its pent-up pressure.


The magma will either keep exploding continuously, possibly causing eruptions and emitting ash, or it will come out violently. The continuous explosions could be more damaging.

'The volcano's activity is showing us that there is much gas that is pushing the system, and this gas comes from new magma,' says Mario Ruiz, a vulcanologist.

The throat of fire has been active since 1999 and it had a strong eruption two years ago. People who live nearby have been evacuated over the past week as the volcano could erupt yet again.