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Chile's massive Villarrica volcano remains on yellow alert as it belches out incandescent fragments at night with nearby communities placed on alert. Mana Rabiee reports.
Travelers wait at the Mexico City International Airport, where 22 flights were canceled due to an ash cloud from the Popocatepetl volcano. Authorities have warned ash is likely to fall in the states of Morelos, Puebla and Mexico, as well as in Mexico City, which lies some 55 miles (90 kilometers) from the volcano. IMAGES
Mount Sinabung spews hot ash and smoke into the sky in Karo, North Sumatra in Indonesia. Sinabung, a 2,460-metre volcano, was dormant for centuries before roaring back to life in 2010 when an eruption killed two people. After another period of inactivity, it erupted again in 2013 and has remained highly active since. IMAGES
Karo, Mar 3 (EFE/EPA).- The Sinabung volcano, one of Indonesia’s most active, on Wednesday continue to send a cloud of ash into sky. Mount Sinabung erupted on Tuesday, emitting a huge column of ash and smoke that reached 5,000 meters in height. Intermittent eruptions of the Sinabung, which measures 2,460 meters, has shown uninterrupted activity since 2013, causing 16 deaths in 2014 and seven in 2016, although they have never exceeded Grade 3 (on a scale of eight) on the Volcanic Explosivity Index.The Indonesian archipelago sits within the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of ??great seismic activity with 127 active volcanoes and which experiences thousands of tremors a year, most of them of small magnitude. (Camera: DEDI SINUHAJI).SHOT LIST: MOUNT SINABUNG SPEWS VOLCANIC ASH IN THE AFTERMATH OF ERUPTIONS, IN NORTH SUMATRA, INDONESIA .
Broad columns of ash shoot from a volcano south of the Philippine capital on Monday, grounding hundreds of flights. IMAGES of ash spewing from volcano