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Passengers Stranded as Chilean Volcano Continues to Cause Flight Disruptions


Voice of America
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:40 UTC
Image
© Reuters
A view is seen of a cloud of ash from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near sunset at the mountain resort San Martin de Los Andes in Argentina's Patagonia June 12, 2011.
A cloud of ash from an erupting volcano in southern Chile has - for a third day, Tuesday - disrupted air travel in South America, Australia and New Zealand, causing widespread delays. More than 60,000 passengers have been stranded.

While flights in some areas have resumed, including Melbourne, planes to and from New Zealand and Adelaide, Australia remain grounded Tuesday.

The volcano in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle chain in Chile has been erupting for several days, putting South American air travel into chaos as it spews ash high into the atmosphere, spreading eastward around the globe until reaching Australia, New Zealand and beyond in the Pacific.

In addition to Argentina and Chile, flights have been disrupted in the South American countries of Brazil and Uruguay.
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Eritrea Volcano Disrupts East Africa Air Travel

Peter Heinlein & Addis Ababa
Voice of America
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:32 UTC
Image
© Agence France-Presse
A natural-color image released by NASA shows plumes billowing from Nabro volcano in Eritrea on June 13, 2011
A volcanic eruption in Eritrea has sent a plume of ash across the Horn of Africa, disrupting airline schedules and sparking health concerns.

Satellite photos show a column of ash rising from the long-dormant Nabro volcano in far southeastern Eritrea, near its border with Ethiopia and the city-state of Djibouti. The eruption is also about 100 kilometers from the coast of Yemen, just across the mouth of the Red Sea.

A photo posted on the website earthobservatory.nasa.gov shows the ash plume spreading westward toward Sudan.

The ash cloud prompted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to cut short a visit to Ethiopia, where she addressed the African Union Monday. It has also disrupted commercial aviation. Several major airlines cancelled flights to destinations in the region.
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Kamchatka Shiveluch Volcano erupts in Russia

Armand Vervaeck and James Daniell
EarthQuake Report
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00 UTC
Volcano activity overview : Shiveluch volcano is a 3283m (10770 feet for our US viewers) high andesitic volcano which is the largest within the Kliuchevskaya volcano group in Kamchatka. It is the most active in the group (at least 60 eruptions in the last 12000 years have occurred) and has been erupting often within 2011 sending ash between 3 and 8 km into the air. The latest set of activity started on June 10, 2011

UPDATE: 17:22 UTC : A Russian TV station has reported yesterday from this Eruption with some video footage from the eruption. Russian volcanoes are not often videotaped.
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Volcano Supercharges Sunsets Far and Wide

Ker Than
National Geographic Daily News
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00 UTC
Volcanic Sunset
© Patricio Rodriguez, Reuters
Volcanic Sunset
A cloud of ash from Chile's Puyehue volcano (map), which began erupting on June 4, creates a golden-hued sunset near the mountain resort of San Martín de Los Andes in Argentina on June 12. (Pictures: Chile Volcano Plume Explodes With Lightning.)

The corrosive and obscuring volcanic ash has grounded airplanes all across South America and even in Australia, but the tiny dust and glass particles are also responsible for an optical effect that has lead to spectacular sunsets and sunrises filled with bright gold, fiery orange, and blood red hues around the globe.

"The wavelength of light coming from the sun is being diffracted differently, and that's what causes the visual effect that we see," explained Jay Miller, a volcanologist at Texas A&M University.
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NASA/NOAA GOES Project Releases 2 Week Movie of Chilean Volcanic Eruption


NASA
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00 UTC
chile_volcano
© NASA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters
This visible image from GOES-13 on June 6, 2011 at 10:45 a.m. EDT and shows the ash plume from the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile (lower left).

This super-fast animation includes 445 visible and infrared images from the GOES-13 satellite that runs from June 4 at 1:45 p.m. EDT to June 16 at 13:05 (9:05 a.m. EDT) and shows the ash plume from the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile (lower left). TRT: 1:14 minutes. (Credit: NASA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters)

The NASA/NOAA GOES satellite Project released a satellite animation of two-weeks of eruptions from the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 has been taking continual images of the volcano from its vantage point in space since the eruption began on June 4. The GOES series of satellites are managed by NOAA, and the animation was created by the NASA/NOAA GOES Project, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The animation includes visible and infrared imagery and has a total running time of 1:14 minutes. This movie contains all 445 images taken by GOES-13 since the eruption began.
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Prehistoric East African Volcano Roars to Life


Earth Week
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:23 UTC
Image
© NASA
NASA's Aqua satellite captured Nabro's ash plume blowing westward into Ethiopia on Wednesday.
Eritrea's long-dormant Nabro volcano burst to life for the first time in recorded history, belching plumes of ash near the border with Ethiopia.

Air transport was disrupted in the immediate region, and briefly threatened to stream into airways of the Middle East.
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Nigeria: Dormant Volcano Stirring?


The Volcanism Blog
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:54 UTC
Nigeria
© Wayfaring Info
Some rather strange reports from Nigeria seem to suggest some kind of volcanic activity in Gombe State in the north-east of the country: emissions of some kind, possibly including toxic/environmentally harmful gases, have apparently been taking place in the Abaduguri range in Funakaye Local Government Area. North-eastern Nigeria does have a history of active volcanism (although how recently the area was active is not known) so the idea isn't intrinsically unlikely. Descriptions of the supposed current activity, however, are rather baffling.

The Nigerian Observer quotes the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency saying that 'the rock, which has been emitting smoke in the past seven months, was a sign of "a dormant volcano which may erupt in future"', while a scientist from the Centre for Geodesy and Geodynamics of the National Space Research and Development Agency called the activity 'a result of the impact of an earthquake that occurred in Pindiga formation, Gombe State, hundreds of years ago'.

Elombah.com reports that 'Local communities living around the Ndanijam Kargo Hill in Funakaye Local Goverment Area and the surrounding villages in Gombe State of the North-Eastern part of Nigeria have been advised to relocate as a result of smoke emission at Abadaguri rocky range because the dormant volcano in the area is likely to erupt any time from now'. The gas has apparently been 'gushing out from the rocky area' for seven or eight months, and has 'an odour of burning plastic'.
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Ash Cloud Spreads From Erupting Nabro Volcano In Eritrea

Mark Dunphy
Irish Weather Online
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:24 UTC
Nabro volcano, Eritrea
© ESA/NASA
Nabro volcano, Eritrea, next to the border with Ethiopia.
The Anabro (Nabro) volcano in the Northern Red Sea Region of Eritrea has erupted sending an ash plume more than 13.5 kilometres into the sky and disrupting air traffic across eastern Africa.

Part of the Afar Triangle, the stratovolcano is one of many volcanic caldera complexes in the north easternmost part of the East African Rift valley region. Nabro is located in the Danakil Depression, close to Eritrea's border with Ethiopia and north of Djibouti, and has not erupted in at least 150 years. It is the most prominent of 3 large volcanoes (Nabro, Dubbi, Mallahle) in the region, each containing a large summit caldera.

The volcano erupted at 2103 GMT Sunday evening. The Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) said Monday that the 5,331 ft volcano has resulted in a large ash plume of up to 13.5 kilometres (8 miles) high. The scale of the eruption, compared to the ongoing eruption in Chile and 2010′s eruption at Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, remains unclear.

Comment: And June 12th, we had these earthquakes: Eritrea/Ethiopia Region: Earthquake Magnitude 5.1 and 9 subsequent large aftershocks

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Bizarro Earth

Eritrean volcanic ash cloud heading toward Israel

Zafrir Rinat
Haaretz
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:12 UTC
volcanic ash cloud
© AP
A volcanic ash cloud created after a volcano erupted in the northern African country of Eritrea is heading toward Israel, the Israel Meteorological Service confirmed on Tuesday.

It is not yet certain whether the cloud will disrupt flights in the area.

According to current estimations, the ash cloud is moving high in the atmosphere, and will probably remain too high to cause any travel disruptions or changes in the quality of air.
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Video: Chilean volcanic eruption DWARFS Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruption


Russia Today
Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:09 UTC
Puyehue volcano continued to erupt on Monday, billowing smoke and ash high into the sky. The volcano in the Caulle Cordon mountain range began erupting violently on Saturday afternoon. Lightning in the rising cloud provided a dazzling display. The eruption has forced more than 3,500 people living nearby to evacuate, but there are no reports of any injuries.

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