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Updated:
18:05, Monday December 30, 2013. Some 2,000 people were evacuated in
eastern El Salvador when the Chaparrastique volcano belched and spewed a
column of ashes high into the sky.
29 December 2013
Last updated at 17:09 ET
No one has been hurt, say the authorities. Anyone living in a 3km (2 mile) radius will be evacuated.
Temporary shelters are being set up in the area.
Civil protection authorities say that some 5,000 people live in the area, in San Miguel province.
The eruption began at 10:30 local time (16:30 GMT).
The Salvadoran government says it had been monitoring the situation since 13 December, when they detected increased activity inside the volcano.
Some 300 communities live around the volcano.
There are more than 20 volcanoes in the small Central American nation.
At 2,129 metres (7,000 ft) above sea level, Chaparrastique is the third highest volcano in the country.
It spewed lava in 1976 and caused a strong tremor in the area in 2010.
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Thousands in El Salvador flee erupting Chaparrastique volcano
Whoever is downwind of this eruption likely will have their weather changed as long as this is erupting.
When Mt. St. Helens erupted it cooled down the weather where I was living then for my family in Mt. Shasta for several years. It also changed the sunsets to Green, Orange, Purple turquoise and all sorts of strange colors for sunsets for several years as well.
Thousands in El Salvador flee erupting Chaparrastique volcano
Cameras filmed clouds of black smoke billowing from the volcano
Thousands of people in eastern El Salvador are leaving their homes after a volcano erupted on Sunday morning.
Residents in the coffee-producing region said they had heard a
powerful explosion before the Chaparrastique volcano began spewing hot
ash and smoke into the air. No one has been hurt, say the authorities. Anyone living in a 3km (2 mile) radius will be evacuated.
Temporary shelters are being set up in the area.
Civil protection authorities say that some 5,000 people live in the area, in San Miguel province.
The eruption began at 10:30 local time (16:30 GMT).
The Salvadoran government says it had been monitoring the situation since 13 December, when they detected increased activity inside the volcano.
Some 300 communities live around the volcano.
At 2,129 metres (7,000 ft) above sea level, Chaparrastique is the third highest volcano in the country.
It spewed lava in 1976 and caused a strong tremor in the area in 2010.
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Thousands in El Salvador flee erupting Chaparrastique volcano
Whoever is downwind of this eruption likely will have their weather changed as long as this is erupting.
When Mt. St. Helens erupted it cooled down the weather where I was living then for my family in Mt. Shasta for several years. It also changed the sunsets to Green, Orange, Purple turquoise and all sorts of strange colors for sunsets for several years as well.
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