Volcano leads to evacuations in Chile

Denmark News.Net
Wednesday 2nd July, 2008

Chile has evacuated people from the area of the Llaima volcano, one of South America's most active.

The Government has ordered a 15-kilometre exclusion zone around the volcano.

Llaima has been spewing lava for a second day prompting fears of landslides.

The fear is that snow on the volcano could melt because of the eruption and trigger torrents of water, ash and rocks.

The 3,125 metre high volcano is about 700 kilometres south of the capital Santiago.

LLaima's renewed activity comes after Chaiten volcano, 1,220 kilometres south of Santiago in Chilean Patagonia, started erupting on May 2 for the first time in thousands of years, spewing ash, gas and molten rock.

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