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El Salvador On High Alert For Active Volcano
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El Salvador On High Alert For Active Volcano
August 31, 2005 1:00 p.m. EST
Niladri Sekhar Nath - All Headline News Foreign Correspondant
San Salvador, El Salvador (AHN) – Salvadoran authorities initiate on Tuesday emergency evacuation plans in case a volcano that contintues to discharge gas and vapor decides to explode.
Experts found a "significant increase" in activity recently. The National Service of Earth Studies director Antonio Arenas says that the renewed energy was first detected on Saturday when experts witnessed 17 small earthquakes around the Ilamatepec volcano.
Ilamatepec is situated in a coffee-growing region of El Salvador almost 40 miles west of San Salvador, the capital.
Arenas also says that scientists found on Monday incandescent rocks in a 2,150-square-foot area where columns of gas and vapor reached to 3,280 feet.
“The volcano is showing a significant increase in activity, both in the number of seismic events as well as in the amount of energy being liberated," Salvadoran Interior Minister Rene Figueroa says.
All emergency agencies are on alert, and have been busy keeping people informed. They are preparing for the evacuation of 20,000 people who live in close proximity to the volacano.
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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2251015216
El Salvador On High Alert For Active Volcano
August 31, 2005 1:00 p.m. EST
Niladri Sekhar Nath - All Headline News Foreign Correspondant
San Salvador, El Salvador (AHN) – Salvadoran authorities initiate on Tuesday emergency evacuation plans in case a volcano that contintues to discharge gas and vapor decides to explode.
Experts found a "significant increase" in activity recently. The National Service of Earth Studies director Antonio Arenas says that the renewed energy was first detected on Saturday when experts witnessed 17 small earthquakes around the Ilamatepec volcano.
Ilamatepec is situated in a coffee-growing region of El Salvador almost 40 miles west of San Salvador, the capital.
Arenas also says that scientists found on Monday incandescent rocks in a 2,150-square-foot area where columns of gas and vapor reached to 3,280 feet.
“The volcano is showing a significant increase in activity, both in the number of seismic events as well as in the amount of energy being liberated," Salvadoran Interior Minister Rene Figueroa says.
All emergency agencies are on alert, and have been busy keeping people informed. They are preparing for the evacuation of 20,000 people who live in close proximity to the volacano.