Timeline: volcano

2015-08-17 22:45:40sentencessite
  • President Rafael Correa decreed prior censorship Saturday on the volcano, worrying press freedom groups.
2015-08-17 22:45:12sentencessite
  • The volcano began showing renewed activity in April.
2015-08-17 22:35:21sentencessite
  • About 425,000 live in shadow of Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano
  • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) " Ecuadorean authorities said Monday that up to 325,000 people live in areas that could be threatened by fast-moving mud and rock flows if there is a major eruption of the Cotopaxi volcano.
2015-08-16 02:26:06sentencessite
  • President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency Saturday over increasing activity in the Cotopaxi volcano near the capital of Quito, and officials evacuated a few hundred people as a precaution.
  • Presidential legal secretary Alexis Mera said further ash explosions and some pyroclastic flows on the volcano's western slopes Saturday led officials to evacuate some nearby villages.
  • Four blasts inside the volcano sent ash shooting more than two miles in the sky Friday, coating highways, homes and cars just south of Ecuador's capital with a fine gray powder.
2015-08-16 00:57:08sentencessite
  • The president of Ecuador has declared a state of emergency after the giant Cotopaxi volcano showed signs of increased activity.
2015-08-15 07:02:01sentencessite
  • Volcano in Japan prompts warning
2015-08-14 17:00:13sentencessite
  • Government scientists said the 5,987-meter (19,600-foot) snow-capped volcano doesn't seem to be on the verge of a major eruption.
  • "The situation merits the population staying informed about what's happening with the volcano," said Ramon.
2015-08-14 16:58:30sentencessite
  • The volcano is 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Quito.
2015-08-14 16:53:11sentencessite
  • Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano spews ash south of Quito
  • A volcano has spewed ash over a wide area in two pre-dawn blasts near Ecuador's capital.
2015-08-01 14:14:16sentencessite
  • Highly active volcano erupts on Reunion amid media frenzy
  • Lava erupts from the Piton de la Fournaise "Peak of the Furnace" volcano, on the southeastern corner of the Indian Ocean island of Reunion Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015.
  • The volcano is in the Reunion National Park - a world heritage site.
2015-07-28 01:11:43sentencessite
  • Tectonic activity, or the movement of continental plates, eventually drifted the volcano away from its hot spot, so Pilanesberg is now dormant, according to NASA Earth Observatory.
  • The Ossipee ring dike formed around 90 million years ago, during the second of three major eruptions throughout the active period of the volcano that created the structure.