Stories tagged Chaiten volcano

Amazing photos of Chaiten's May eruption

by Joe on Jul. 29th, 2008

Non Erupting Image of Chaiten: This is a nice picture of Chaiten. But the really cool ones of the volcano erupting and volcanic lightning are in the links in the story. Check 'em out.
Courtesy NASAThe image here is a boring image of Chaiten. The images here are awesome images taken from the May eruption. (Though I suspect if you live nearby like the town on the top of the photo to the right, the boring images are more preferable.) Scientists think that volcanic lighting is caused within volcanic ash clouds by particles rubbing together generating static electricity.

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Chile volcano: It keeps going and going

by Thor on Jun. 09th, 2008

Chaitén, pre-eruption: The dome-filled caldera of Chaitén volcano is seen in an aerial view from the south taken prior to an eruption in 2008.
Courtesy Eric Manríquez T. (Instituto Geográfico Militar).The massive volcanic eruption in Chaiten, Chile, has now passed a month's worth of spewwing ash and rock into the sky. Here's a great photo of the eruption going in its fourth week. People and farm animals were evacuated in the opening weeks of the eruption. Now, emergency workers are evacuating salmon on a fish farm that could become contaminated from toxic materials in the ash mixing with their fish farm water.