On Friday, a Guatemalan airport spokesman told the press that the closure of Guayaquil Airport was forced due to lava and ash that spewing from from Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano eruption 2010. The glacier-capped, 16,478-foot (5,023-meter) volcano has erupted for several times since 1999 and the major eruptions occurring in August 2006 and February 2008. However, Guatemala volcano eruption 2010 is the biggest recorded, the government’s emergency management agency said.
Officials evacuated the towns of Cusua and Juive Grande in central Ecuador, the emergency agency said, but no injuries or fatalities had been reported. No further evacuations were planned, the agency said.
Meanwhile, the authorities said that the death toll climbs from Tungurahua volcano 2010 eruption.
Up to now, Tungurahua volcano eruption sent a large ash cloud into the air, the Geophysical Institute of Peru said. Unfortunatley, The height of the ash could not be determined because of cloudiness in the area.
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Before the long-term eruption beginning in 1999 that caused the temporary evacuation of the city of Banos at the foot of the volcano, the last major eruption had occurred from 1916 to 1918, and minor activity continued until 1925, the Smithsonian Institution said on its volcano Web site.
The volcano is 87 miles (140 km) south of Quito, the nation’s capital.
Tungurahua means “throat of fire” in the native Quechua language.
It was the second volcanic eruption reported in Latin America in the past few days. The Pacaya volcano erupted Thursday in Guatemala, killing at least three people.
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