Some news from the Chaiten eruption. Apparently, LanChile has cancelled some flights around the region of southern Chile due to the ash. They likely implies that the eruption column is bigger than reported by the SERNAGEOMIN on Monday, but the report has little in the way of details. Sounds like the volcano is still huffing and puffing away. Definitely one of the more important and interesting eruptions in the last few hundred years and it has the Cascades Volcano Observatory along with the USGS VDAP buzzing (based on some conversations I’ve had recently), even almost four weeks in.
9 responses to “Chaiten ash cancels flights”
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Thanks for the information … I wonder if we’re looking at the same report? The one I saw said the depth (profundidad) was 9.8 km. If the earthquake was really at 26 km, I would be even more surprised – especially at 78 km away from Chaiten – that it would have anything to do with the volcano.
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I speak spanish and a little english.
The Quake Thomas Donlon ask for, was 74 km N of Chaiten in a deeph of 26 km.
Here the report in spanish:
(“…El Instituto de Sismología de la Universidad de Chile señaló hoy que el epicentro del sismo fue localizado a 74 kilómetros al norte de la ciudad de Chaitén, que se encuentra abandonada a causa de la erupción del volcán del mismo nombre, en las cercanías de la localidad de Hornopirén, a una profundidad de 26 kilómetros..”)
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werner luis -
It is hard to tell from the report how close it is to Chaiten as such. It would likely need to be very close to the volcano for it to be directly related to the eruption. It looks like it was a relatively shallow earthquake (9.8 km), but that area (Los Lagos) is prone to moderate (M=4-5) earthquakes, so the likelihood of a direct connection is small.
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Hi!
Is anyone moderately fluent in Spanish? It looks as if there was a 5 magnitude quake at Chaiten today. I just look at the words and guess their English equivalents when they look similar. (I can recognize some Spanish words too.)
[URL]http://ssn.dgf.uchile.cl/cgi-bin/sensible.pl?oid=3593107&yr=2008&mo=5&da=29[/URL]
I am not sure this whole volcano eruption is over.
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