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POPSChile's Llaima Volcano Erupts The 3125-metre Llaima is 700 kilometres south of the Chilean capital Santiago and just a few kilometres west of the Argentina border. The Chaiten volcano - 500 kilometres further south along Chile's volcanic ridge that forms part of the Pacific Ring of Fire - erupted last May for the first time in thousands of years, virtually destroying the town of the same name, forcing the evacuation of its 4000 inhabitants and spewing ash across southern Chile and Argentina. The Chaiten volcano rumbled back into activity in February, threatening to devastate the area with new pyroclastic flows. That volcano's new eruptions came only days after the Government said it would not rebuild Chaiten in the same location, despite protests from its inhabitants.
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POPSVolcanic lightning may have sparked life on Earth In the classic Miller-Urey experiment, a mixture of gases and water that Miller thought were present on early Earth was heated and zapped with electricity to mimic lightning. This created five identifiable amino acids. Yet Miller tested three versions of his spark flask. One of the two lesser-know setups – the volcanic apparatus – created 22 amino acids that could be positively identified. The findings could also give clues to life on other planets. The conditions found in the volcanic spark flask could conceivably have once existed on Mars or Titan, and Bada is developing instruments that could detect tiny amounts of amino acids frozen beneath the surface of the Red Planet.
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POPSChile fears effects of volcanic ash What once was green is now gray. The ash from the Volcano has dramatically changed environmental conditions, choking an ecosystem. Despite any delusions Mankind has regarding the management of the environment, we are still, and always will be at the mercy of the elements.
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POPSClip de prueba Me parece una prueba entretenida, la saqué del diario La Tercera del 10/05/2008
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POPS eruption of Chaiten volcano smoke and ash rise high above the Chaiten volcano, 1220km south of Santiago, covering the Patagonian community of Chaiten with ash that forced nearly 4500 residents to evacuate and turned Chaiten into a ghost town. The eruption sent minor earthquakes rippling through the region
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