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Subscribe to RSSAccording to Wikipedia: Puyehue and Cordón Caulle are two coalesced volcanic vents that form a major mountain massif in Puyehue National Park in the Andes of Ranco Province, Chile. In volcanology this group is known as the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex (PCCVC). Four different volcanoes constitute the volcanic group or complex, the Cordillera Nevada caldera, the Pliocene Mencheca volcano, Cordón Caulle fissure vents and the Puyehue stratovolcano.
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Lightning bolts strike around the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain in the Patagonia region at sunrise June 5. The volcano dormant for decades erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday, belching ash over 6 miles into the sky, as winds fanned it toward neighboring Argentina, and prompting the government to evacuate several thousand residents, Chilean authorities said.
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Aerial picture showing the cloud of ash billowing from Puyehue volcano near Osorno in southern Chile, 870 km south of Santiago, taken on June 5. Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in half a century on June 4, prompting evacuations for 3,500 people as it sent a cloud of ash that reached Argentina. The National Service of Geology and Mining said the explosion that sparked the eruption also produced a column of gas six miles high, hours after warning of strong seismic activity in the area.
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Lightning bolts strike around the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain in the Patagonia region June 4.
Read more about the eruption here and see more spectacular images in our slideshow and in the video below:
Amazing video shows a volcano erupting in Chile, billowing ash and smoke six miles into the sky. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.
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Oh man. To be the phrog that had the chance to take these photos.
Seriously starting a news article with, "According to Wikipedia," a new low for "journalism."
Exactly what I was thinking. While going through school, instructors made it VERY clear that Wikipedia was not a source you could use in papers. I don't think that rule should be changed nor used in "journalistic" writing.
what are they supposed to do? not write anything at all?
wikipedia is reliable anyways.
Absolutely stunning.
Such a beautiful area in which this is happening. Southern Chile is the only place on Earth, other than Norway, to have Fiords. The vistas are breathtaking, but unfortunately, these are breathtaking in a very different way. I have lived in Chile, and love the country and its people dearly, and wish them well!
Nice images as all volcanic ash cloud/lightning strike images are. The quoting of Wikipedia, though really low, has become the norm for the 'journalists' of today. Of course, anyone that takes anything written as the single source, is a fool.
This is like the thing with crazed termites that happened a month or two ago, where there was a strange and bizarre sequence of events involving termites, which began with termites eating through a metal storage case in an Indian bank and then consuming a huge quantity of rupees, which was followed by termites eating a tree that fell on a railroad track and caused a train wreck, except this time it is volcanoes . . .
Over the past week or so, there have been volcanic eruptions in Iceland, Mexico, and Chile, which more than anything is a clue that the Reptillians are on the move and something major is going to happen real soon, which certainly will include another surreal sinkhole in Guatemala City and a major earthquake somewhere, although it is not entirely clear where the earthquake will occur, where at present the most likely candidates are somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico or off the West Coast of our great nation . . .
I think the key will be the way Hawaiian volcanoes behave over the next week, since this just as easily could signal another massive earthquake in Japan, really . . .
Really!
Simma' down now, this cano' last erupted some 50 yrs ago. Nothing to see here, move along now.
With all those links and references that link to informative Wiki articles it is understandable that Wikipedia was referenced, and I am glad the writer did. However, starting off a story like this with "According to Wikipedia" did make me cringe a bit.
Looks like where republicans come from.....
YES!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd like to know if there was ever a time in history where this many 'events' happened so close together, or if we just have 24/7 news coverage to make us aware of them. In any case, Mother Nature is NOT a very happy camper this year, no matter where you live in our world!
@Alabama:
Having nearly instantaneous access to news provides information sooner, which has a dramatic affect on the way people perceive reality, but overall I think it is more a matter how who quickly dots can be connected, since even when the delivery of news was slower, the information eventually appeared . . .
Nevertheless, I think it is obvious that there is vastly more information readily available at the dawn of the early-21st century than there was as recently as the past few decades . . .
One of my hypothesis is that a series of strangely surreal events appear in the news every once in a while for no apparently obvious reason, where the thing with a series of strange news reports about termites is a recent example . . .
There might be an unconscious mind type of filtering involved (a la Carl Jung), but regardless of the way these events become reported, I think they are intriguing, and they typically disappear after a few hours and become difficult to find later, so when I find this type of news report I save as a PDF file . . .
I have a bit of FUN with the idea that a race of underground lifeforms (the "Reptillians") are the cause of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, sinkholes, and so forth, but the practical reality is that these events are weather signs, where "weather" involves just about everything happening on the planet in the sense of physics . . .
Technically, volcanic eruptions are not "weather", but the plumes of volcanic ash and other materials affect what typically is considered to be "weather", which is what make them relevant to physical meteorology, in the same way that flooding affects atmospheric humidity and so forth and so on . . .
From this perspective "weather" is focused on atmospheric events, but everything affects the atmosphere in one way or another, directly or indirectly, so I think it is relevant . . .
Termites are more of an early-warning phenomenon, so instead of affecting "weather", termites are affected by "weather", hence provide clues to more subtle aspects of what is happening in the atmosphere . . .
The recent river flooding certainly is not simply a matter of nearly instantaneous news reporting, and there are historical records that provide clues to where recent river flooding fits on the grand scale of everything, where it certainly is "above normal" and maps at least to 50-year or 100-year event levels . . .
Lots of FUN . . .
Thank You thats very informative and I agree with you.
Thank you!! Interesting AND informative. Who would have thought to watch termites!
One shot looks awfully familiar...........mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb?
Anthony Wiener,Anthony Wiener! Ha Ha! Now that's an eruption!
Why do you think these events are happening worldwide all at once?
I have also lived in Chile and have visited that area. It's absolutely beautiful.
I believe that so many things are happening around the globe has to do with the loss of balance in the earth caused by the extraction of oil and the loss of ground water. an object that is spinning cannot continue if its balance is thrown off,, so go on and keep making the big buck for today,, our children will pay for it later if there is a later..