> **
>
>
> * Thousands flee their homes and flights are grounded as Chilean volcano
> sends plumes of ash showering down *
>
> The Chilean volcano which erupted on Monday has sent a towering plume of ash
> across South America, forcing thousands from their homes, grounding airline
> flights in southern Argentina and coating ski resorts with a gritty layer of
> dust instead of snow.
>
> Booming explosions echoed across the Andes as toxic gases belched up from a
> three-mile-long fissure in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic complex - a
> ridge between two craters just west of the Chilean-Argentine border that
> began erupting Saturday.
>
> Winds blew a six-mile high cloud of ash all the way to the Atlantic Ocean
> and even into southern Buenos Aires province, hundreds of miles to the
> north-east.
>
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>
> Raining ash: The plume above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain threw
> ash up to six miles into the sky
>
> [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] <http://keralites.net>
>
> Engulfed in ash: A policeman walks between rocks and ash near the volcano
> site in southern Chile
>
> Authorities in Chile went house to house, trying to persuade stragglers near
> the volcano to evacuate because of an increasing danger of toxic gas and
> flash floods.
>
> Winds fanned the ash toward neighbouring Argentina, darkening the sky in the
> ski resort city of San Carlos de Bariloche, in the centre of the country,
> and its airport has also been closed.
>
> The eruption in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain, about 575 miles
> south of the capital, Santiago, also prompted authorities to close a busy
> border crossing into Argentina.
>
> It was not immediately clear which of the chain's four volcanoes had erupted
> because of ash cover and weather conditions. The chain last saw a major
> eruption in 1960.
>
> [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] <http://keralites.net>
>
> Grounded: An aircraft belonging to Austral with ash on it from Chile's
> Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain remains stranded on the tarmac of the
> sky resort San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina's Patagonia.
>
> [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] <http://keralites.net>
>
> Covering: This road near the volcano site was left completely coated in
> pumice rocks from thePuyehue-Cordon Caulle chain volcano.
>
> [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] <http://keralites.net>
>
> Massive: An example of a pumice rock from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle
> chain volcano is displayed Local media said the smell of sulphur hung in the
> air and there was constant seismic activity. 'The Cordon Caulle (volcanic
> range) has entered an eruptive process, with an explosion resulting in a
> 10-kilometre-high gas column,' the state emergency office ONEMI said. As a
> precaution, the government said it was evacuating 3,500 people from the
> surrounding area.
>
> This development is the latest volcanic activity to affect the country.
> Three years ago, Chile'sChaiten volcano erupted spectacularly for the first
> time in thousands of years, spewing molten rock and a vast cloud of ash that
> reached the stratosphere and was visible from space. It also drifted over
> neighbouring Argentina, coating towns. Chile's Llaima volcano, one of South
> America's most active, also erupted that year and again in 2009.
>
> Chile's chain of about 2,000 volcanoes is the world's second largest after
> Indonesia. Some 50 to 60 are on record as having erupted, and 500 are
> potentially active.
>
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>
> Winter come early: In scenes more reminiscent of a snow storm, residents
> walk through an ash covered street in the resort San Carlos de Bariloche in
> Argentina.
>
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>
> Spectacular: A time-lapse photo shows lightning bolts striking around the
> Puyehue-Cordon Caullevolcanic chain.
>
> [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] <http://keralites.net>
>
> As a precaution, the government said it was evacuating 3,500 people from the
> surrounding area.
>
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>
> An extraordinary cloud formation is created by the ash rising several miles
> into the atmosphere. It was the latest in a series of volcanic eruptions in
> Chile in recent years. Chile's Chaiten volcano erupted spectacularly in 2008
> for the first time in thousands of years, spewing molten rock and a vast
> cloud of ash that reached the stratosphere.
>
> The ash also swelled a nearby river and ravaged a nearby town of the same
> name.
>
> The ash cloud from Chaiten coated towns in Argentina and was visible from
> space. Chile's Llaimavolcano, one of South America's most active, erupted in
> 2008 and 2009.
>
> Chile's chain of about 2,000 volcanoes is the world's second largest after
> Indonesia. Some 50 to 60 are on record as having erupted, and 500 are
> potentially active.
>
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>
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>
> Above cloud level the plume looks like a nuclear bomb has just exploded with
> its mushroom cloud bursting towards the skies.
>
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>
> A woman wipes a thick layer of volcanic ash away from the windscreen of her
> car.
>
> [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] <http://keralites.net>
>
> Headlights on, a car creeps through a street covered in ash. One could be
> forgiven for thinking this was a wintry scene covered in snow.
>
> [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] <http://keralites.net>
>
> Caught in the sunlight: Beautiful but deadly, the cloud turns fiery red in
> the sunshine as the eruption continues to belch ash skyward.
>
> [image: Fun & Info @ Keralites.net] <http://keralites.net>
>
> Smiling lightning: As molten rock and gases are ejected from the core of the
> volcano below, what appears to be a 'have a nice day' face is formed from
> the electrically charged air.
>
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>
> Protection: Carrying bottles of water and soft drinks this man wears a gas
> mask to avoid breathing in ash.
>
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>
> As darkness falls the centre of this Argentinian town looks like it could be
> a wintry wonderland in the Austrian mountains.
>
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>
> A car drives through a street covered by ash in the Argentine resort city of
> San Carlos de Bariloche.
>
> It lies 100 miles from Chile's Puyehue volcano.
>
>
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