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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2005 
Volcano of Fire Registers Eruption
 Wire services
| | Local authorities say the risk is not high enough to evacuate local villages. |
Mexico City – Mexico's interior secretary announced Wednesday that he was stepping down to start his campaign for the presidential nomination of Mexico's ruling National Action Party.
Guadalajara - The Colima Volcano in western Mexico also known as the Volcano of Fire registered two powerful eruptions within an hour, emitting a column of smoke and steam six kilometers (almost four miles) high, the University of Colima reported Thursday.
The explosions, which came on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, also caused ash to fall on several towns in the region along the mutual border of the western states of Colima and Jalisco.
Officials in those two states said that they could not rule out another explosion like the ones over the past few days, which have been the strongest blasts in more than a decade.
The Colima Volcano is Mexico's most active.
The volcano alert level remains at "yellow," however indicating caution and the authorities have said they did not feel it was necessary to evacuate residents of the nearby communities.
The volcano, located some 430 kilometers (267 miles) west of Mexico City, erupted on Monday morning, spewing pyroclastic material to a height of some 800 meters (880 yards), the Jalisco state government reported.
In addition, at that time the Mountain of Fire released a large amount of ash that fell on communities close by, the state government said in a press release, adding that the explosion was "the largest in the last 10 years." |
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