The volcano Chaiten

The news was not specifically this year, but I think that it was schockly and importantly for the country: the Chaiten volcano. Chaiten is (or was?) a very Quite Town without violence and corruption olmost a paradise in the middle of a beauty landscape.

The volcano erupted during May 2 2008, and the homes to the villagers (the most affected communities are the city of Chaitén, Futuleufú, El Amarillo and Chana) needed to evuacuate. Earthquakes and a dense cloud of volcanic ash were the keynote of these days. Unfortunately, all animals, cows, sheep, chickens, rabbits and most unfortunate, all pets, puppies and kittens were abandoned to their fate... One elderly person died while at sea en route for Puerto Montt. The plume of ash from the eruption had spread across Chile and Argentina to the Atlantic Ocean, contaminating water supplies, and reportedly coating the town of Futaleufú to a depth of 30 cm. The BBC reported that the ash plume from this eruption reached an altitude of 30 kilometers.

The news was saying that this eruption is known as the first major explosive eruption of rhyolite magma volcano in nearly a century, since the 1912 eruption of Novarupta.

Personally, this news caused many questions in me, where inclusive I thought of being going to give a word of spirit to the affected persons. Really, there were days which the country was very worried and simultaneously joined by a reason of help. The psychosocial
effect of traumatic events, such as the eruption and the subsequent displacement of people who are forced to leave their houses, required immediate action.

I believe the eruption helps to create the conditions to a climate change in long terms like any eruption that remains for a long time.

This one was an event of the year 2008 that for the people of Chaitén will be remembered, but also it must be overcome.