It had been more than 40 years since the Calbuco volcano erupted. It's blown twice this week — generating striking images and concerns over the effects of both the lava and a mammoth cloud of ash.

As everyone knows now, an Andean volcano in Chile, Chaitén, erupted this past week. We've all seen those spectacular images and The Volcanism Blog continues to deliver great update posts. So, for ...

On May 2, 2008, the Chaitén volcano in Chile awoke with unexpected fury after more than 9,000 years of dormancy. The eruption blasted rocks and ash a dozen miles into the air, and then heavy ...

Chaitén Volcano In Southern Chile: Historic Volcanic Eruptions Significantly Underestimated, Ash Fallout Analysis Shows. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

One currently in the area, Chile’s Villarrica volcano, is one of the country’s most active. In the past century, over 100 people have died from ‘lahars’, volcanic mudflows that the volcano ...

True GritSpewed by Chile's Puyehue volcano, ash blankets the Nahuel Huapi lakeshore in Bariloche, Argentina, near the Chilean border, on June 12. (See pictures: "Volcano Supercharges Sunsets Far ...