Tag: Volcano

• Monday, December 12th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Volcano activity leads to temporary airport closure in Guatemala

  

  Guatemala City's La Aurora International Airport was closed temporarily Sunday due to “the presence of ashes” from the nearby Fuego volcano, it was reported. The air terminal resumed operations three hours later after the wind shifted “to the south,” according to Civil Aeronautics Director Francis Argueta.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 10:48 UTC

  Yellow Alert decreed in Chile over increasing volcanic activity

  

  Chilean authorities have issued a Yellow Alert for the communes of Villarrica, Pucón, and Curarrehue in the region of La Araucanía, and for Panguipulli, in Los Ríos after an increase in activity by the Villarrica volcano was detected.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Popocatepetl volcano causes concern among Mexican residents in adjacent areas

  

  Just one day after two people were reported to have died during an earthquake, Mexican authorities issued an alert following two explosions at the Popocatepetl volcano Tuesday. Residents were asked not to go near the site. The alert has been set at Yellow Phase 2.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  New major volcanic eruption detected in Tonga

  

  Two days after a first volcanic eruption not far from Tonga led to the death of two women in Peru, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center detected large waves in the area, which “could be from another explosion,” it was reported.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Volcano activity in St Vincent & Grenadines leads to mass evacuation

  

  Saint Vincent and The Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves Thursday ordered the evacuation of several towns as a precaution in view of threatening activity at the La Soufriere volcano.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  Volcano erupts in Iceland with lava spewing fountains of up to 100 meters high

  

  A volcano erupted near Iceland's capital Reykjavik on Friday, shooting lava high into the night sky after thousands of small earthquakes in recent weeks.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  One of Mexico's most dangerous volcanoes belched ash and rock into the sky

  

  Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano dramatically spewed a fiery cloud of ash and rock into the sky on Thursday, though it did not prompt authorities to raise their eruption alert level.

• Sunday, July 21st 2019 - 22:40 UTC

  Volcano eruption leads to state of emergency, evacuations in southern Peru

  

  Peru's government has declared a state of emergency and carried out numerous evacuations in the areas hit in one way or another by the Ubinas volcano's eruptive process which has affected around 30,000 people in the south of the country, mainly due to the dispersion of ashes, authorities reported Sunday.

• Friday, December 28th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  Indonesia volcano activity on the rise: exclusion area expanded and flights rerouted

  

  The alert level for Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano has been raised to the second-highest level possible, after a series of eruptions, while all flights around the volcano have been rerouted and a 5km (three-mile) exclusion zone has also been imposed.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Thousands evacuated from areas around Guatemalan Fuego volcano

  

  Almost 4 000 people were evacuated from areas around Guatemala’s Fuego volcano, which began violently erupting on Monday, the country’s disaster agency Conred said.