Chilean Chaiten Volcano Erupts (awesome images)

[Clodioz]

Chaitén volcano erupts, shouth of Chile.

http://images.spaceref.com/news/2008/Chile_TMO_2008126.jpg

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yep, thats all, i just wanted to show you those amazing pictures :)
all the villages near the volcano has been evacuated.


edit may 12th

ten days ago the volcano started to erupt. All the people left their animals there without food and only with contaminated water.

today: The animals begin to find its way to survive eating each other

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[ArtZealot]

holy shit that lightning cloud is cool! is there higher res pictures?

[Nrx]

Holy shit that truely is amazing!

Stuff like that must be what inspired religion

[0kelvin]

Holy shit, it's The Nothing! Run Atreyu!

[Dian3]

yeah amazing photos, but not all people has been evacuated as i see in the news. :(

[nonie]

Holy shit, it's The Nothing! Run Atreyu!

hahaha!

[Clodioz]

yeah amazing photos, but not all people has been evacuated as i see in the news. :(

hahaha ah no sé, es que por lo poco y nada que he visto en la tele, en la tarde dijeron que los tribunales de Pto Mont tiraron la orden de evacuar "a la fuerza" y los sacaron a todos :)

Saludos!

[Dian3]

@Clodios: espero que sea asi y la gente esté a salvo, y no hayan perdido mucho.

The cloud of ash, notice the scale with the mountains:

[aussiedeza]

Awesome reference material

[Clodioz]

yep, dunno why but it reminds me a piece of Glen Angus, a silver surfer :)

[VulgarDragon]

Those ash clouds look scary with lightning. Well, even though a lot of people evacuated, it does not mean they are safe. The ash is like microscopic glass fragments...breathe enough of it and it will damage your lungs and can sometimes kill. From the satellite photo, it looks like it is over a large area and it is blowing around. Yech.

[Clodioz]

Those ash clouds look scary with lightning. Well, even though a lot of people evacuated, it does not mean they are safe. The ash is like microscopic glass fragments...breathe enough of it and it will damage your lungs and can sometimes kill. From the satellite photo, it looks like it is over a large area and it is blowing around. Yech.

the large area you mention is Argentina. Villages and even cities are being affected by the ashes. I heard the ashes are arriving to Buenos Aires (AR) and Santiago (Cl)

cheers!.

[silvestri99]

That is truely awe inspiring....we are truely ticks on the flesh of Mothre Nature....damn...

[fukifino]

Those are some phenomenal photographs. I was just watching a thing on volcanoes on TV the other day and they showed a brief clip of one erupting and I noticed the lightning in the ash cloud being ejected. I had never known about them before, but it makes a lot of sense. But it was nothing like the ones captured here. It looks unreal.

[Christian223]

Im in Buenos Aires, for now the air has this strange smell, ashes smell, and the sky has a very slight grey layers, aslmost imperceptible, but nothing else for now, but in many other cities the ashes has affected the area covering all.

[Clodioz]

Im in Buenos Aires, for now the air has this strange smell, ashes smell, and the sky has a very slight grey layers, aslmost imperceptible, but nothing else for now, but in many other cities the ashes has affected the area covering all.

Im glad to hear that :)

Pero me preocupan los animales silvestres o de ganado que viven en la pampa. Los de Chile ya no tienen remedio, solamente se preocupan de la gente :( ...

Saludos!

pd. que hay sobre Mendoza o Bariloche??

[egerie]

Wow that's amazing! Thank you :)

I wanted to be a volcanologist when I was a kid ahah.

[SalOnimaruRem]

AMAAAZING PHOTOS!! :D :D :D am glad am not over there, shit a dragon has awaken :O lol

[Christian223]

Im glad to hear that :)

Pero me preocupan los animales silvestres o de ganado que viven en la pampa. Los de Chile ya no tienen remedio, solamente se preocupan de la gente :( ...

Saludos!

pd. que hay sobre Mendoza o Bariloche??

Dicen que no es toxico, pero yo no les creo... no se sobre mendoza y bariloche, pero creo que por el viento no estan afectados porque estan mas al norte, aunque no estoy muy seguro.

[Blue]

Thats the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. As horrifying as it may have been.. i would have loved to see it with my own eyes.

[Clodioz]

holy shit that lightning cloud is cool! is there higher res pictures?

yep, there are:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_02/volcanoUPI_800x531.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_02/Volcano3AP_800x600.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_02/volcanoUPI1_800x514.jpg

Bigger
(http://www.tflive.com/images/we_are_almost_there_mr_frodo.jpg)
2996*2000

(http://galacticcentral.org/imagebucket/volcano.jpg)

[Elwell]

Nature wants to kill us.
Just wait 'til the Yellowstone Caldera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_caldera) goes boom.

[Wooly ESS]

I wonder if a volcanic ash cloud of that magnitude has climate implications?

[Shamagim]

Chucha!

Espero que este todo bien por ahi...:(.

Las imagenes son increibles, ni me imagino el miedo que deve causar el ver eso en persona.

[Elwell]

I wonder if a volcanic ash cloud of that magnitude has climate implications?

Undoubtedly, the only question is how much (see for instance, the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo#Global_environmental_effects), Krakatoa in 1883 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa#Global_climate), or the Year Without a Summer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_A_Summer) of 1816). Volcanism is the wild card in the global environment.

[ArtZealot]

Nature wants to kill us.
Just wait 'til the Yellowstone Caldera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_caldera) goes boom.

yeah i hear that when yellowstone goes boom, scientists think it could be one of the biggest eruptions ever and could have massive changes throughout the entire planet. that's some scary shit

[Blue]

My new desktop. :)

[Clodioz]

:O the photos looks better with this backgroud

[egerie]

yeah i hear that when yellowstone goes boom, scientists think it could be one of the biggest eruptions ever and could have massive changes throughout the entire planet. that's some scary shit

A TV movie about exactly this is Supervolcano (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419372/). I was pleasantly suprised as it's an awesome tv movie / docudrama.

[Blaz]

A TV movie about exactly this is Supervolcano (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419372/). I was pleasantly suprised as it's an awesome tv movie / docudrama.

I watched a documentary about Supervulcano, was great (despite the fact they show same animation every 10 minutes, aaargh).

Supervulcano erupting would be the end of the north america, since the cloud of dust would be so big so the conditions would be hazardous.


And the pictures are amazing, wow. Looks so unreal.

[Studio Colrouphobia]

I apologize for posting a new topic about the same event. My bad. You have more extensive images anyway.

Sad about the dogs,

[Clodioz]

I apologize for posting a new topic about the same event. My bad. You have more extensive images anyway.

Sad about the dogs,

dont worry :) is fine