Ecuador volcano spews fiery rocks, warnings issued

[bluediamond]

JUIVE GRANDE, Ecuador — Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spewed red-hot rock and ash Tuesday as officials upgraded their eruption warning level to orange and some at-risk communities began evacuations.
The 5,029-meter (16,500-foot) volcano in the country's central Andes, about 135 kilometers (84 miles) south of the capital Quito, has been active since 1999 but its thermal activity has steadily increased since Sunday, sending pyroclastic boulders into the air and cascading down from the summit.
Good weather prevailed on Monday night, allowing scientists to observe "the continuous output of incandescent material," the Geophysical Institute said in its latest report.
"This activity was characterized by the expulsion of incandescent boulders, rising more than 300
meters above the crater and rolling down all sides of the volcano."

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[MainerMikeBrown]

It's bad enough when natural disasters destroy a large area. It's even worse when it destroys third world areas. People in those areas have next to nothing anyhow.

A ways back, an island nation in the Carribbean, Montserat, was mostly destroyed after a volcano on the island exploded. How sad.

 

[bluediamond]

It sure is not good for these kind of disasters to happen to any country.

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

Some people feel less anxiety by refusing to leave an area where a volcano is about to explode and destroy their home.

I realize that not knowing how your house is during a natural disaster is an awful feeling. But it sure beats knowing exactly what's going on with your home as it gets destroyed and your in it.