[mmaimcal] FYI: Lascar eruption this morning.

[Alwyn Wootten]

Folks,

Please see:
http://www.mercurioantofagasta.cl/prontus4_noticias/antialone.html?page=http://www.mercurioantofagasta.cl/prontus4_noticias/site/artic/20050505/pags/20050505021233.html

An unusual eruption registered at dawn yesterday at Láscar volcano,
located about 430 kilometers to the west of Antofagasta and a little
further than the town of San Pedro de Atacama from the ALMA site, to its
south.  Lascar expelled ashes and columns of smoke by a period of 30
minutes between the localities of Camar and Talabre. The eruption was
detected at 03,03 hours by the station of the University of Hawaii located
at a base established at Camar, a reason why it was not perceived by the
community of those towns. According to the director of the Regional Office
of Civil defense and Emergency (Oremi), Hernán Vargas Canivilo, the
volcanic activity was superior to that which normally usually
registers....The biggest eruption of the Láscar happened in April of 1993
and figures third greatest in the history of Chile. In that eruption, the
volcanic activity lasted a day and means, where the ashes caused damage in
the north of Argentina and arrived over Brazil, which caused interest in
the international the scientific community.

Ash-free skies,
Al