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Ecuador volcano erupts; schools closed QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador has suspended school in four towns near the Tunguarahua volcano as ash spews 2 1/2 miles into the sky, damaging crops and endangering the health of nearby residents.
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BANOS, Ecuador (AP) - Rescuers searched for 30 people missing Friday after the devastating explosion of a volcano that killed at least one person and appeared poised for a new eruption. The head of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute urged people - including tourists who may be tempted to witness the spectacle - to stay away from the 16,575-foot volcano in the nation's central Andes.
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BILBAO, Ecuador In normal times, Luis Egas would have risen before dawn to tend livestock or fields of potatoes and onions. But as the sun rose Saturday, all he could do was survey his village, laid waste by a volcanic eruption that spewed incandescent rock, showers of ash and rivers of molten lava.
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QUITO, Ecuador -- A volcanic eruption in Ecuador's Andes mountains destroyed three villages, killed at least one man and left more than 60 others missing, the mayor of a village on the volcano's slope said Thursday. One body was recovered after the overnight eruption of lava from Tungurahua, in the country's high Andes, and four others were believed to be under the rubble, Penipe Mayor Juan Salazar said.
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GUATEMALA CITY | Eruptions shook two volcanoes Friday in Central and South America , forcing thousands to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over wide regions. Guatemala's Pacaya volcano started erupting Thursday, blanketing the capital with ash. Meanwhile, explosions rocked Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano, prompting evacuations of hundreds from nearly villages. - The Associated Press
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Ecuador: Galapagos volcano QUITO -- A volcano on the largest of the Galapagos Islands has begun erupting and authorities are evaluating possible dangers to the island's famed plant and animal life, officials said Friday.
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A deadly explosive eruption of the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador overnight Wednesday raised alarm in Vancouver. The 16,750-foot South American volcano showered incandescent rock and lava on nearby villages, killing at least one person and leaving 60 missing. A doctor treating burn victims described the eruption, which wiped out three small villages, as "Dantesque.
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Volcano forces 3,000 to evacuate QUITO, Ecuador Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano shot columns of ash miles into the air on Wednesday, as officials ordered the evacuation of 3,000 villagers living near its slopes.
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AP photo A villager balances a plough in his mouth during a rural sports festival, also known as Indian Rural Olympics, in Kila Raipur, India, on Saturday. *** Ecuador's erupting Tungurahua volcano has dumped an inch of ash on nearby villages, causing major crop damage in an agriculturally important area, officials said Saturday. Several villages on the volcano's western flanks are being destroyed by falling ash that billowed over the highland plain and darkened the sky, said Juan Salazar, mayor of the farming hamlet of Penipe. Volcanic activity remains very high at Tungurahua, 95 miles southeast of the capital of Quito, although without lava flows in recent hours, according to Ecuador's Geophysics Institute.
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On this day in history, the British forces were defeated by American troops at the Battle of Bennington in 1777; Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is fatally struck by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees in 1920; and the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador erupted in 2006. Residents in Warren County may not have such earth-shattering news to share, but you would be amazed at what locals find interesting.
