We left everything there, grabbed my kid, my dog, got in the car with my wife," Moffat said. Armageddon type reaction," said Canada-born Moffat, who was driving to nearby Puerto Varas.
Television pictures showed a spectacular mushroom-shaped column billowing into the sky with occasional lighting bolts shooting through. The eruption was seen in towns at least 50 kilometers away. Chile, on the Pacific "Rim of Fire," has the second largest chain of volcanoes in the world after Indonesia, including around that are potentially active. Facebook Twitter Email. Incredible images from volcano erupting in Chile. Luis Andres Henao Associated Press. Show Caption.
Hide Caption. Raw: Calbuco volcano erupts in Chile. The Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile. April Calbuco has been quiet for 42 years but erupted dramatically this week. The volcano in southern Chile towers over the city of Puerto Montt. The volcano emitted an ash plume that rose to an estimated 33, feet 10 kilometers , according to an observatory in Buenos Aires.
Pyroclastic flows —hot, dense clouds of material that blast out of a crater at high speeds—and lava flows have been observed at the top of the volcano. The volcano erupted with little warning, prompting the Chilean Geological Survey and the Chilean Emergency Management Agency to declare a mile kilometer exclusion zone around the mountain. At least 1, people in the area have been evacuated , amid fears of additional lava and the potential for mudflows down the mountain.
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