Abstract
ALARMING reports of vast showers of volcanic ash from eruptions of Descabezado and other recent volcanoes of the group which occurs on the chain of the Andes south of Santiago de Chile, appeared in Tuesday's daily papers. The eruptions began on April 10, and the neighbouring towns of San Fernando, Curico, and Talca were said to be in darkness through the fall of fine dust from the volcanoes. The ash is reported to be three feet deep in Curico. Trains arriving at Mendoza, on the line about a hundred miles east of Santiago, were covered with volcanic dust, and the streets of the city were thickly coated with it. At Buenos Ayres, which is about six hundred miles farther east, there has been a steady fall of volcanic ash, and even at Monte Video (Uruguay), still farther east, the shower of dust is reported to have lasted for ten hours. Shocks have been felt over a wide area, but at the time of going to press no details are available as to the actual character of the eruptions or exactly what volcanic peaks have again come into activity.
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Volcanic Eruptions in the Andes. Nature 129, 572 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129572a0
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