According to data from Global Volcanism Program, the latest eruption cycle of the Fuego Volcano began in 2002, but the recent event is the most significant in several years.
The stratovolcano is less than 30 miles from the country’s capital city and has been sending thick, billowing ash clouds thousands of miles in the sky.
Due to the threat of impact from these downslope flows, several small villages have been evacuated for what the government said were “preventative” actions. Officials from The National Coordination for Disaster Reduction are seen conducting evacuation orders for villages surrounding the mountainside.An official from The National Coordination for Disaster Reduction helps a young girl onto a bus during the evacuation orders.During the historic episode, NASA reported ash was detected more than four miles in the air and avalanche-like pyroclastic flows buried villages.
Authorities have not reported that the impacts from the recent event are similar to historical episodes but warn weak, moderate and even strong pyroclastic flows cannot be ruled out.
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