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Posted on December 27, 2012 by The Extinction Protocol
December 27, 2012 – MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan
authorities say they’ve ordered the evacuation of some 300 families
living on the flanks of the country’s highest volcano after it began
spewing hot gas and ash Tuesday. Some 1,500 farmers living on the slopes
of the San Cristobal volcano refused to leave, despite being ordered to
evacuate as the volcano spewed gas, sand and ash. “People have not
evacuated because we do not want to go and leave the area abandoned,”
Maria Pereira told AFP. Pereira lives in “Grecia 4,” a community of
about 600 people at the base of the volcano, in the Chinandega
department. She said columns of ash “bathed the trees, houses, and roads
in white” and “pretty sand fell” in the morning. She said by early
afternoon volcanic activity had decreased, though in the evening new
columns of ash shot up. In another community near the volcano,
Bethlehem, some farmers resisted efforts of Civil Defence officials to
convince them to obey the evacuation order.Federal government
spokeswoman and first lady Rosario Murillo told a local radio station
that a yellow alert was declared Wednesday in a 1.8-mile radius around
the San Cristobal volcano to allow the evacuation of residents who would
be at highest risk during a significant eruption. Murillo said 15
eruptions had been recorded over the last day at the volcano northeast
of the capital of Managua. She said the volcano has emitted regular
small eruptions, but larger ones are unpredictable. Authorities had
wanted to move the closest residents away from the volcano as a
precaution. –Chanel News Asia
thanks to: http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com
December 27, 2012 – MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan
authorities say they’ve ordered the evacuation of some 300 families
living on the flanks of the country’s highest volcano after it began
spewing hot gas and ash Tuesday. Some 1,500 farmers living on the slopes
of the San Cristobal volcano refused to leave, despite being ordered to
evacuate as the volcano spewed gas, sand and ash. “People have not
evacuated because we do not want to go and leave the area abandoned,”
Maria Pereira told AFP. Pereira lives in “Grecia 4,” a community of
about 600 people at the base of the volcano, in the Chinandega
department. She said columns of ash “bathed the trees, houses, and roads
in white” and “pretty sand fell” in the morning. She said by early
afternoon volcanic activity had decreased, though in the evening new
columns of ash shot up. In another community near the volcano,
Bethlehem, some farmers resisted efforts of Civil Defence officials to
convince them to obey the evacuation order.Federal government
spokeswoman and first lady Rosario Murillo told a local radio station
that a yellow alert was declared Wednesday in a 1.8-mile radius around
the San Cristobal volcano to allow the evacuation of residents who would
be at highest risk during a significant eruption. Murillo said 15
eruptions had been recorded over the last day at the volcano northeast
of the capital of Managua. She said the volcano has emitted regular
small eruptions, but larger ones are unpredictable. Authorities had
wanted to move the closest residents away from the volcano as a
precaution. –Chanel News Asia
thanks to: http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com
