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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2005 
Evacuations Ordered After Mexican Volcano Erupts For Second Time
 KWTX.com
| Mexico's Volcano of Fire sends lava and hot rocks flowing down its sides as lightning flashes over its crater. The photograph of the Colima volcano was taken with a four-minute exposure.
(Photo: AP) |
Evacuations began Tuesday in villages in western Mexico after the Volcano of Fire erupted for the second time in two days.
A monitoring station of the University of Colima says the eruption late Monday night hurled burning rock high in the air and shot a column of ash three miles over the crater.
The new eruption from 12,500-foot volcano follows a Sunday afternoon blast that sent a towering column of black ash into the clouds.
Officials called it the volcano's strongest eruption in decades.
The volcano staged spectacular eruptions Thursday night and Friday morning, as well as on May 23 and May 30.
The volcano straddles the line between the states of Colima and Jalisco, 430 miles west of Mexico City.
The first eruption seen by settlers came in 1560.
The volcanic system is considered to be among the most active and potentially most destructive of Mexico's volcanoes.
Click Here For University Of Colima Volcano Web Site(In Spanish) |
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