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Image of the rhyolitic lava dome of Chaitén Volcano during its 2008–2010 eruption.. Chaitén is a volcanic caldera 3 kilometres (2 mi) in diameter, 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of the elongated ice-capped Michinmahuida volcano and 10 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southern Chile.
Monte Burney is on the northwest Muñoz Gomera Peninsula. [4] This area lies in the Patagonian region of Chile, [1] which is known for its spectacular fjords. [4] The volcano lies in the commune of Natales [2] 200 kilometres (120 mi) northwest of Punta Arenas, [1] and approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) southwest of Puerto Natales. [5]
The country's National Geology and Mining Service lists 90 active volcanoes. [2] The volcanoes of the Andes originate from the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate, while the volcanoes of Chile's Pacific islands formed from magma coming from three distinct hotspots, Easter, Juan Fernández and San Felix hotspots. The ...
Chile ratified the United Nation's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1988, internationally declaring support for women's human rights. [32] One of Chile's missions as part of the UN is commitment to democracy, human rights and gender perspective as foundations of multilateral action. [39]
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...
The eruption is the second-largest historic volcanic eruption in Chile, only behind the 1932 Quizapu eruption. [25] With a volcanic explosivity index of 5, [160] it is one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century. [21] It formed a 12-kilometre-high (7.5 mi) eruption column and pyroclastic flows within the caldera. [161]
“The mission, after being the first Mexican woman in space, is making sure I am not the last.” ...
An archaeological site in Ethiopia has revealed that a population of humans survived the eruption of Sumatra’s Mount Toba 74,000 years ago. One of the largest eruptions in Earth’s history ...