Yellow Alert As
Costa Rica's Turrialba Volcano Threatens
Major Eruption
The
Comisión Nacional de Emergencias (CNE) -
National Emergency Commission upgraded the
alert in Turrialba to yellow and expanded
the evacuations around the volcano in
repsonse to eruptions of Ash. Vulcanologists
discard any magma in the volcano's crater.
The yellow alert status activates the local
emergency commissions and response to a
possible emergency. The alert is for an area
of between a 5 and 7 kilometre radius of the
volcano. Local authorities are organizing
emergency and evacuation committees in case
of a major eruption.
So far as many as 50 people have been
evacuated and taken to shelters. The low
number of evacuees is due to the sparse
population around the Turrialba
The concern is that the high winds that are
common during Janury are spreading ash
toward San José and highly populated areas.
Vanessa Rosales, director of the CNE, told a
news conference that seismic activity at the
colossus is "intense but low".
The 3,328-meter (10,918-foot) volcano
erupted Tuesday, spewing ash and rocks and
forcing 21 people in its vicinity to
evacuate their homes.
The last major eruption of the Turrialba
volcano was in 1856. It has had at least
five major explosive eruptions in the last
3,500 years.
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