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Cyclones and Volcanoes

Cyclones and Volcanoes. What a week that was! . The Chaiten volcano has started to erupt for the first time in over 9,000 years. Located in southern Chile, Chaiten is a small provincial city and home to several thousand people. The eruption caused a red alert in Chile and Argentina.

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Cyclones and Volcanoes

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  1. Cyclones and Volcanoes • What a week that was!

  2. The Chaiten volcano has started to erupt for the first time in over 9,000 years. Located in southern Chile, Chaiten is a small provincial city and home to several thousand people.

  3. The eruption caused a red alert in Chile and Argentina. • Volcanoes can effect the climate globally but it needs to emit over one million tons of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. So far this eruption has only released a couple of thousand tons but experts are watching closely.

  4. Plumes of ash are rising over 20 miles and causing schools to close in neighbouring Argentina. • Residents have been issued with gas masks and been told to stay indoors.

  5. About 1,500 people have evacuated with about 30 remaining who may be removed by force as the volcano starts to erupt properly spewing out molten lava.

  6. In Myanmar, Cyclone Nargis cut a path of destruction through the country leaving over 20,000 confirmed dead and over 60,000 missing.

  7. The United Nations fears that over 1.5 million people have been affected by the Cyclone. Myanmar (formerly Burma) is controlled by a strict military regime.

  8. Hundreds of thousands are without food, water or shelter and vulnerable to dengue fever and malaria. Despite this, the miltary rulers are refusing to allow aid workers into the country. • The situation is set to worsen with heavy rains forecast next week.

  9. Now an Earthquake! • The death toll after a 7.8-magnitude quake in south-western China rises to at least 10,000, state media says, with rescuers yet to reach victims at the epicentre.

  10. Homes, schools, chemical factories and at least one hospital have all collapsed. In one district alone, Beichuan, 80% of buildings collapsed, killing up to 5,000 people.

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