Mexico Volcano Spews Ash Stream
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano spewed out a large stream of ash and rocks in a three-minute exhalation.
“The recent activity is within the expected scenarios, and there is no evidence of a major risk in the following days,” says the disaster prevention center CONAPRED.
“No reports of ash fall have been received.”
Popocatepetl, which on clear days can be seen from Mexico City, 40 miles (64 km) away and home to some 18 million people, reawakened in 1994 after decades of inactivity, according to CNN reports.
It has sparked to life several times since then, most notably in 2000 when it tossed red-hot rocks far above its crater in a series of explosions, according to news reports. Tens of thousands of people living nearby were evacuated at that time.
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Mexico Volcano Spews Ash Stream
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spewed out a large stream of ash and rocks in a three-minute exhalation.
"The recent activity is within the expected scenarios, and there is no evidence of a major risk in the following days," says the disaster prevention center CONAPRED.
"No reports of ash fall have been received."
Popocatepetl, which on clear days can be seen from Mexico City, 40 miles (64 km) away and home to some 18 million people, reawakened in 1994 after decades of inactivity, according to CNN reports.
It has sparked to life several times since then, most
Popocatepetl volcano sends plume of ash into air outside Mexico City
The Popocatepetl Volcano sent a gritty cloud billowing into the sky outside Mexico City early Thursday.
Officials warned nearby residents to protect themselves against the rain of ash the eruption will likely cause.
The 5,450-metre volcano, which has been erupting intermittently since 1994, posed no other immediate danger, they said.
In July, the volcano sent a column of hot ash 2.4 kilometres into the air and spat out red-hot rocks. But it didn't threaten residents living at the volcano's base.
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New Eruption at Mexico's Volcano of Fire
A small eruption Tuesday of the Volcano of Fire in western Mexico scattered ash onto adjacent towns, the Jalisco state civil defense agency said.
No injuries were reported.
Clouds obscured the plume of gas and ash triggered by the eruption at 5:07 a.m. (6:07 a.m. EDT). The towns affected were to the west and southwest of the volcano, the agency said.
The 12,533-foot volcano on the border of Jalisco and Colima states — 420 miles west of Mexico City — is among the country's most active and most dangerous.
It has erupted repeatedly in recent years. On Sept.
Volcano Sends Plume of Ash Into Air Outside Mexico City
Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano sent a gritty cloud billowing into the sky outside Mexico City early Thursday.
Officials warned nearby residents to protect themselves against the rain of ash the eruption will likely cause, and some was reported to have fallen on the town of Amecameca, in Mexico state.
The eruption sent a plume of ash almost 5 kilometers (3 miles) into the air, and was accompanied by about 30 minutes of light seismic activity, Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center reported.
The 17,886-foot (5,450-meter) volcano has been intermittently erupting since December 1994.
In July, the
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Mexico peasants take up machetes against Acapulco dam
A two-hour Jeep ride inland from Acapulco, with its fast-food chains and high-rise seafront hotels, Gregorio Garcia's family lives a simpler life in the tropical forest of southwestern Mexico.
A stream provides water, the soil bursts with squash and fruit trees and the forest provides fuel and medicinal leaves. Lunch is thick maize tortillas, salted deer meat, fresh chile sauce and coconut milk. Even the air smells sweet.
Yet this tiny paradise could soon be nearly 500 feet (150 m) underwater in the basin of a huge dam that will power new floodlit, air-conditioned hotels
Mexico peasants take up machetes against Acapulco dam
A two-hour Jeep ride inland from Acapulco, with its fast-food chains and high-rise seafront hotels, Gregorio Garcia's family lives a simpler life in the tropical forest of southwestern Mexico.
A stream provides water, the soil bursts with squash and fruit trees and the forest provides fuel and medicinal leaves. Lunch is thick maize tortillas, salted deer meat, fresh chile sauce and coconut milk. Even the air smells sweet.
Yet this tiny paradise could soon be nearly 500 feet (150 m) underwater in the basin of a huge dam that will power new floodlit, air-conditioned hotels
Mourning, gratitude in Mexico
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"We want Mexico to be
Defense overtones clouds U.S.-Mexico scientific venture
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President Vicente Fox and Mexico's scientific community have championed the telescope, the largest of its kind in the world, saying it shows how a developing country can play a major role in cutting-edge technology.
Yet the fact that most of the U.S. funding comes from the Defense Department has worried some Mexicans who are leery of any military connections with
