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All Ecuadorian eyes on Tungurahua volcano after spectacular eruption
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/05/all-ecuadorian-eyes-on-tungurahua-volcano-after-spectacular-eruption/
All Ecuadorian eyes on Tungurahua volcano after spectacular eruption
By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, April 5, 2014 17:18 EDT
Villagers and experts warily eyed an Ecuador volcano Saturday that spewed a 10-kilometer (six-mile) high column of ash a day earlier in a spectacular eruption.
“For now, the ash fall is mild,” Ecuador’s National Secretariat for Risk Management said on its Twitter account. It called activity at the volcano, which is 130 kilometers south of the capital Quito, “moderate to high.”
But it admitted that “it is difficult to predict future behavior.”
The Tungurahua volcano, which in the Quechua language means “throat of fire,” expelled an impressive plume of ash and smoke on Friday, putting authorities and villagers on alert.