Tungurahua
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 The Tungurahua on November 28, 2004 |
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| height | 5016 m | |
| location | Ecuador | |
| Mountains | To the | |
| Dominance | 23.8 km → El Altar | |
| Notch height | 1561 m | |
| Coordinates | 1 ° 28 ′ 12 ″ S , 78 ° 26 ′ 41 ″ W | |
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| Type | Stratovolcano | |
| Last eruption | 2015 (currently active since 1999) | |
| First ascent | 1873, Alfons Stübel and Wilhelm Reiss | |
The Tungurahua is an active stratovolcano that lies southeast of Ambato on the eastern slope of the Andes of Ecuador and dominates the Amazon region . The name probably comes from Quechua from tunguri = throat, rahua = to burn, to spit fire.
Volcanic activity
In 1999, a major activity led to the evacuation of the town of Baños at its foot and the surrounding area, bringing 22,000 people to safety. Ash clouds rose about 10 km into the atmosphere and covered more than 500 km² of land when they fell. Mudslides caused road destruction. Since then, smoke emissions and smaller eruptions have been recorded continuously, sometimes increasing, sometimes decreasing. In July 2006 there were again strong puffs of smoke and ash and eruptions of lesser intensity.
In the early morning hours of August 17, 2006, the volcano showed the strongest lava discharges since 1999. Five villages were burnt and burnt, six people from the village of Palitahua were killed and 13 injured. A total of 3,200 residents of the surrounding villages and the city of Baños were brought to safety, and the provinces of Tungurahua and Chimborazo were declared disaster areas for a few days.
On October 16, 2006, the volcano once again spat out smaller lava flows and several tons of ash at a height of up to 8 km. Surrounding villages in the north had to be evacuated again; there were no deaths or injuries.
On February 6, 2008, almost 1,500 people fled their homes after a shower of ash and rocks. According to local media reports, several villages were badly damaged in the eruption, at least five people were killed. The Tungurahua spat out lava, boulders rolled down the west side of the mountain, and a cloud of ash ten kilometers high stood over the volcano. According to the authorities, the ash rain destroyed 20,000 hectares of agricultural land. Around 400 families living on the slopes of the mountain were brought to safety. Ecuador's President Correa declared a state of emergency in the region.
On May 22, 2010 the volcano erupted again. The resulting ash cloud was over ten kilometers high. The airport and all schools in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil , have been closed and several villages have been evacuated. Another eruptive phase began on November 22, 2010.
On December 17, 2012, the Tungurahua erupted again and erupted tons of ash and glowing rocks. The ash cloud from this eruption was around 7 kilometers high. The inhabitants of the surrounding villages could be brought to safety in good time.
On March 10, 2013, the Tungurahua erupted again, throwing tons of ashes and glowing rocks into the surrounding area. From February 1 to 3 and April 5, 2014, there were renewed eruptions, which ejected clouds of ash about 8 and 10 kilometers high.
On November 11, 2015, eruptive activity of the Tungurahua was recorded for several days. The resulting ash cloud was up to 4500 meters high.
On February 27, 2016, the Tungurahua became active again and ejected huge boulders and a 5 kilometer high ash cloud that covered several villages as precipitation. There was an orange alert level, which was lowered to yellow again at the end of March 2016.
Web links
- Tungurahua in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
- The Tungurahua erupts - Astronomy Picture of the Day of September 18, 2007.
- spiegel online.de Video Ecuador - State of emergency after volcanic eruption , accessed on June 4, 2010 18:55 CEST
- Information about the volcano on the website of the Instituto Geofisico (Spanish)
- Volcanic ash information for the Tungurahua from the NOAA Satellite Information Service
- Ecuador volcano's deadly eruption , BBC News from August 17, 2006 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-26901834
- ↑ a b Spiegel-Online, “Five dead in volcanic eruption”, February 7, 2008
- ↑ swissinfo, “At least five dead after volcanic eruption in Ecuador”, February 7, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ web.de Airport closed after volcanic eruption ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (June 4th 2010 6:51 pm BST)
- ↑ igepn.edu.ec, November 27, 2010: Volcán Tungurahua: Constantes columnas de emisión con moderado contenido de ceniza en dirección Sur Occidente (November 28, 2010)
- ^ Tungurahua and Lokon: Eruption of volcanoes in Indonesia and Ecuador . Mirror online. Retrieved December 21, 2012
- ↑ Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews lava and rocks. BBC News, February 3, 2014, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Ecuador volcano throws up spectacular ash plume. BBC News, April 5, 2014, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Una emisión de ceniza de 3 kilometers se registered in the volcán Tungurahua. El Comercio, November 11, 2015, accessed November 24, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ Declaran alerta naranja en las zonas de influencia del volcán Tungurahua. El Comercio, November 18, 2015, accessed November 24, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ Red de Observatorios Vulcanológicos (ROVIG). ROVIG, March 31, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016 (Spanish).
