Turrialba Spews Out
More Gas And Ash
On Tuesday the colossus near the town of
Turrialba woke up, spewing out ash and gases
from its main crater for 22 continous hours.
Then it quietened, allowing volcanologists
and other experts for a close inspection of
the Volcán Turrialba, who widened the
"green" alert to "yellow" and evacuated some
50 people.
On Saturday the volcano began erupting
again, although not as strong of the
eruption of earlier in the week, this time
the ash blowing northeast due to the
changing wind direction.
On close inspection volcanologists found
that the ridge separating the two new
craters formed after the eruption had
collapsed, leaving one large crater some 65
metres in diameter.
The Sismologia Red Sismológica Nacional (SRN)
- National Seismological Network - said that
this was "normal morphological change". The
SRN rule out that activity is building up
inside the volcano and that no eruption of
lava is likely.
The experts say that studies show no
indication of magma activity,
The Turrialba volcano is located 35
kilometres east of San José, is 3.340 metres
high and is a national park, which for the
meantime has been shut down because of the
volcanic activity.
The last time that Turrialba made a complete
eruption was in 1866 and its ashes,
according to historical records, reached as
far as Nicaragua
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