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Brilliant! (althought not
Wed, 03/21/2007 - 08:45Brilliant! (althought not brilliant for the people there). Thats the volcano I got stuck on over christmas!
Thats going to cause problems the villagers of Banos refuse to listen to the scientists there becuase they have been evacuated so many times with no eruption.
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Ecuador Evacuates Villagers From Slopes of Erupting Volcano
Submitted by senua on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 13:52.Authorities evacuated about 100 families from the slopes of a volcano in central Ecuador which began showering villages with flaming rocks and ash last month.
Firefighters, police and civil defense officials conducted a voluntary evacuation because of the Tungurahua volcano's intensifying activity, Jorge Arteaga, director of Ecuador's Red Cross rescue squad, told Radio Quito on Monday.
The 16,575-foot volcano, whose name means "throat of fire" in the Quechua language, shot a 1.2-mile plume of ash into the sky on Feb. 12.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257128,00.html