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Chile gives volcano holdouts ultimatum to flee

PUERTO MONTT/FUTALEUFU, Chile (Reuters) - Chile on Thursday ordered holdout residents to flee from an erupting volcano in the remote region of Patagonia and vowed to force them out if they refuse to obey.

Chile gives volcano hold-outs ultimatum to flee

PUERTO MONTT/FUTALEUFU, Chile (Reuters) - Chile on Thursday ordered holdout residents to flee from an erupting volcano in the remote region of Patagonia and vowed to force them out if they refuse to obey.

Military evacuated, Chile volcano eruption flares

PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - Chile ordered hold-out residents to flee from an erupting volcano in the remote region of Patagonia on Thursday and vowed to remove them by force if they refuse to obey.

Military evacuated, Chile volcano eruption flares

PUERTO MONTT/FUTALEUFU, Chile (Reuters) - Chile on Thursday ordered holdout residents to flee from an erupting volcano in the remote region of Patagonia and vowed to force them out if they refuse to obey.

Ash Rises Over Shiveluch Volcano

On Sunday morning, February 17, 2008, the skies above Shiveluch Volcano in Russia’s Far East were clear and calm. When the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead, it caught this view of a column of ash from a recent eruption seemingly frozen in the air over the mountain. The southern slopes of the snow-covered volcano were brown with ash. The top image in this pair shows a close-up view of the ash column, which rises over the volcano to the east (right) of the active caldera. The bottom image shows the entire volcano. In this view, the shadow of the ash column looms over the northern flank of the volcano.

Erupting volcano prompts new evacuation in Chile

CASTRO, Chile (Reuters) - Chile prepared to evacuate another town in its remote Patagonian south on Monday, as ash spewed from a snowcapped volcano for a fourth day after its first eruption in thousands of years.

Erupting volcano prompts new evacuation in Chile

CASTRO, Chile (Reuters) - Chile prepared to evacuate another town in its remote Patagonian south on Monday, as ash spewed from a snowcapped volcano for a fourth day after its first eruption in thousands of years.

Emergency evacuation as Chile volcano spits lava

CHAITEN, Chile, May 6 (Reuters) - Crackling with explosions, Chile's Chaiten volcano began spitting lava on Tuesday following its first eruption in thousands of years, and Navy warships were deployed to evacuate nearby residents in the southern region of Patagonia.

New evacuation as Chile volcano spews lava: report

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Lava started to spew from an erupting volcano in southern Chile on Tuesday and authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of all remaining residents and journalists from a nearby town, local television reported

Emergency evacuation as Chile volcano spews lava

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Lava started to spew from an erupting volcano in southern Chile on Tuesday and authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of all remaining residents from a nearby town.

Military evacuated as Chile volcano eruption flares

PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - Chile evacuated the last of a small group of military personnel and civilians from the vicinity of an erupting volcano in its remote Patagonian south before dawn on Thursday, after it spat a surge of fiery material, officials said.

Thousands evacuated as Chile volcano spews ash

CHAITEN, Chile (Reuters) - Covered in thick ash, the Patagonian community of Chaiten was a ghost town on Saturday as a volcano spewed ash a day after its first eruption in thousands of years forced nearly 4,500 people to flee.

Chile volcanic eruption seen at critical stage

PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - A towering plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile's remote Patagonia could rain down on the surrounding area and cause devastating damage, a volcano expert warned on Friday.

Chilean volcano could spew for months

ABOVE CHAITEN VOLCANO, Chile (Reuters) - Looking down over the ash cloud soaring from Chaiten volcano in southern Chile, the whole area is carpeted in white and experts say the eruption that began last week could last for months.

Chilean volcano could spew for months

ABOVE CHAITEN VOLCANO, Chile (Reuters) - Looking down over the ash cloud soaring from Chaiten volcano in southern Chile, the whole area is carpeted in white and experts say the eruption that began last week could last for months.

Seen from above, volcanic ash paints Chile white

ABOVE CHAITEN VOLCANO, Chile (Reuters) - Looking down over the ash cloud soaring from Chaiten volcano in southern Chile, the whole area is carpeted in white and experts say the eruption that began last week could last for months.

Chile volcano blasts ash 20 miles high, forcing evacuations

SANTIAGO, Chile - The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky on Tuesday, forcing the last of thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the

Chile volcano blasts ash 20 miles high, forcing evacuations

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky on Tuesday, forcing the last of thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the South American continent.

Volcano in Chile spews lava and blasts ash 12 miles into sky

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky on Tuesday, forcing thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the South American continent.

Chile forces residents to leave region of volcano eruption

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Police and soldiers cleared the last remaining people from the shadow of a Chilean volcano on Thursday after a strong, overnight explosion spewed glowing-hot rocks from its crater.

Chile volcano erupts, villages evacuated

Authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages in southern Chile Friday after a snowcapped volcano considered dormant for thousands of years erupted. The blast sent minor earthquakes rippling through the region.

Chile's Chaiten volcano one of scores of active volcanoes in region

Aerial view Chaiten Volcano southern Chile prior to May 2008 eruption. Image courtesy Chilean Air Force

Thousands Flee Colombia Volcano Eruption

This photo released by Ingeominas shows the Nevado del Huila volcano in the southwestern state of Huila, Colombia, Monday, April 23, 2007. The volcano was spewing ash Tuesday, April 15, 2008, prompting the goverment to evacuate thousands of people from the area. (AP Photo/Ingeominas)

Kilauea volcano explodes again

VOLCANO, Hawaii - Kilauea Volcano has exploded again. Officials say a small explosion that sent rocks more than 200 feet up onto the rim of the volcano's main Halemaumau crater occurred Wednesday night, hours before the park reopened.

Chile volcanic eruption at critical stage: Expert

PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - A towering plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile's remote Patagonia could collapse back down to devastate the surrounding area, a leading expert warned on Friday.

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