https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa Volcano en-us 2017-01-18 10:39:36 UTC 2017-05-17 10:28:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png 09williamsc https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa/wish/147767163 On Friday 2nd May 2008, Chaiten volcano in south-eastern Chile erupted for the first time in around 9,400 years.]]> 2017-01-18 10:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa/wish/147767163 09williamsc https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa/wish/147767407 The town of Chaiten is situated 10km south-west of the volcano, was blanketed with ash. About 4,000 people who lived there were evacuated by boat, along with another 1,000 residents from the nearby town of Futaleufu. Smaller settlements to the south-east such as Chubut and Rio Negro also received heavy ash falls. The ash plume was so thick in some parts of neighboring Argentina that flights were diverted and airports, highways and schools were forced to close. ]]> 2017-01-18 10:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa/wish/147767407 09williamsc https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa/wish/147768596 The Chaiten volcano is one of many along the western seaboard of South America. With 122 volcanos, including 40 historically active ones, Chile has one of the longest volcanic chains in the world. It is situated above a subduction zone where the Pacific Ocean Plate is consumed beneath the South American continental crust. The volcano, which featured a lava dome within a caldera about 2.5km wide and 4km long, is composed of viscous rhyolitic lavas and pyroclastic and is typical of magmas rising through the young fold mountains of the Andes.]]> 2017-01-18 10:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa/wish/147768596 09williamsc https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa/wish/147769415 > 1st earthquake felt late 30.4.08 local time
> Eruption began around midnight 1.5.08
> Initial eruption puts ]]> 2017-01-18 11:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/09williamsc/30a10bdf4hwa/wish/147769415