Saturday, June 11, 2011

Chile's Puyehue Erupts -  南米チリ プジェウエ火山噴火






すごい!の一言です。以下は The Atlanticからの引用です。

On Saturday, a volcano in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle chain of south-central Chile erupted after lying dormant for more than 50 years. The government evacuated several thousand residents as Puyehue threw ash more than 6 miles (10 km) into the sky, pushing the plume toward neighboring Argentina. Authorities had already put the area around the volcano on alert after a flurry of earthquakes earlier on Saturday -- at one point, the tremors reached an average of 230 per hour. Collected here are a handful of spectacular photographs of the eruption this weekend and its effects in Chile and Argentina.

地震や火山に関する言葉が並んでいますね。

erupt                                        噴火する
lie dormant           休火山である
evacuate                避難する
plume           プリューム(マグマ上昇気流)
put A on alert      Aを警戒態勢にする
a flurry of earthquakes  急に来る地震
tremor         微震