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600 Evacuate as Puyehue Volcano Erupts in Chile

600 Evacuate as Puyehue Volcano Erupts in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted Saturday, sending a huge plume of smoke and ash into the sky and prompting officials to evacuate about 600 people living nearby. There were no reports of injuries.

Authorities had put the area around the volcano on alert Saturday morning after a flurry of earthquakes, and the eruption began in the afternoon. The National Emergency Office said it recorded an average of 230 tremors an hour.

On the other side of the Andes in Argentina, heavy ash fell on the city of San Carlos de Bariloche.

Officials warned residents of the area around the city to take precautions against a possible prolonged ashfall. They urged people to stock up on food and water and to stay home.

The volcano is nearly 500 miles (800 kilometers) south of Chile’s national capital, Santiago.

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  • Centralsville
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:34pm

    You will be seeing more earthquakes, more volcanos, more tornadoes, more hurricanes, more natural disasters of all kinds. We are approaching the end. Liberals in their unbelieving desperation want to blame fossile fuels and capatilism for all our problems. Fools. In the end there are only two forces at work on this earth and only two kinds of people, saved and lost. The Bible says it is a narrow road to heaven and few travel it. Look at all the millions that deny God and all the millions following lost religions.

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  • woodyl1011fl
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:19pm

    Have you read about the ignorant journalist in Australia that wants those people who deny human caused global warming to permanently tattooed with a mark to punish them for not believing in the greatest fraud in the 21st Century. These environmental extremists are certifiably nuts. These totalitarian useful idiots are a danger to every human being on the whole planet no matter what country there from. Volcanoes, the sun, the oceans are what drive our weather, these people are so willfully ignorant they are deniers of the obvious. There so called scientists are like the old carnival snake oil salesman and deceive just like the one they serve.

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 6:00pm

    Looks like more global cooling on the way!

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  • Scott Senffner
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 4:09pm

    We are living in strange times. If we have enough of these volcano’s going at once, we may end up in a cooling period, weather wise. The ash cloud blots out the sun rays hitting the earth which then causes cooling of the earth.

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    • Upstate SC
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:08pm

      Not to mention feeding 7 billion people on the planet, with an ash cloud the sun very well could become black as sackcloth or darkened and the moon blood red. Nothing will grow.

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  • ED4237
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 12:39pm

    Hey greenheads can you control the volcano’s that are going off. They are spewing greenhouse gases at a rate higher than we humans could ever think of doing.

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  • Upstate SC
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:47am

    Preliminary predictions have Comet Elenin coming within 42 million miles of the Earth with a very favorable comet sun angle for observers in the northern hemisphere. This is likely to change somewhat as additional data will tweak the orbit, but as it stands now we will see a spectacular comet in late October or early November 2011. When Comet Elenin first was discovered in December last 2010 it was calculated to pass 8.8 Au (8.8 times the distance of the Sun form us) away. But now these calculations has once changed again. Today the orbital calculation is down to 0.24 Au with a minimum as low as 0.15. But these data is being recalculated all the time and it could get even closer but that depends what it encounters in the Oort belt. Just so you know the Moon is 0.00256 away from us to give you a comparison. We must be aware that this comet could bring enormous amount of debris with it and Earth will pass through the debris trail. This will probably take place around the 6th November 2011 or later. It is a fact that we will pass through the tail of this thing and nobody knows what we are in for.

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  • blazingaway
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:43am

    Global cooling and weather change on the way … when will people learn to realize that little mankind can’t affect the weather and all it takes is one big sun spot to really heat things up and one big volcanic eruption to cook things down. Global warming is a scam, if you don‘t realize that people who study the weather aren’t aware of weather cycles then you are one of the fools that these people hope to victimize. If they claim global warming during he warming cycle and time it just right so once they have their programs in place the natural cycle turns to cooling who do you think will take the credit and have all the naive fools convinced they are the great Wizard of OZ and deserving of your support, your vote, you tax dollars. WAKE-UP AMERICA

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  • CHICAGOTHUGBUCKET
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:41am

    Grab your family and your bibles folks it is over before you know it. Life has been this way forever and our government has undermined the elders for two generations here by squelching any survivalist oral tradition of mans struggle against evil through War, famine or natural disasters that occur every year around the world. How about the life channel? How to save money and build your home or fix your car and raise your kid to be a better person? No send them to school to learn about Islam.

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  • Alaskasfreedom
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:20am

    You better forget geology class and remember who Created the Ring of Fire!! Thats right…GOD and He can do whatever He wants to with it!!! Hereigns7 is on it! Good luck with your geology class..hee hee

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    • vennoye
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 12:09pm

      You just have to love these “Science, so called” people!! EVERY single time any one quotes the age of this earth the number changes………. At least people who believe their Bible can consistantly come up with the same number. We all know that we are living at the end of the 6th day and into the start of the 7th, which is a day of rest…………..you know sorta like a Millennium Reign. Any of you who thought you were out of here before any problems, am afraid we are way past that time! But, the good news is that the first ones out of here are not going to a good destination………..

      Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

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    • Upstate SC
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 12:27pm

      @ vennoye
      I’m inclined to totally agree with you.. Let not your heart be troubled. Gods plan for this world is unfolding according to his very own plan. But the science community is so smart they just can’t believe that a book written so long ago could be right. They will figure it out but by that time it will be too late. Nice video.. for those interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhNpiLIVD80&feature=player_embedded#at=43

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    • vennoye
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 3:07pm

      @Upstate SC
      When you start reading your Bible for yourself, instead of just sitting in a pew and listening to someone’s interpretation……you really wonder HOW this pre-tribulation teaching became so widespread! Just gotta live in faith not fear…..

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    • Upstate SC
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 8:21pm

      @ vennoye
      Once again I agree… This is one of my favorite passages- Prov. 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your path straight. The modern church has condemned her own flock by false teachings… they are every where, just take a look around. Jesus said we are either for him or against him.. The choice has to be made.. Folks… choose wisely, its a matter of life and death, no matter what happens here, prepare for eternity..cause that’s what will matter most.

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  • fmingram
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:07am

    For goodness sake folks, it’s a volcano located in the ring of fire. specifically located at a convergent plate boundry(The Pacific Plate) God, or some other angry Sky Daddy doesn’t have anything to do with this. The volcano is doing what it was meant to do. The earth is 4.5 to 5.0 billion years old. How do you suppose all those spectacular mountains were built? It’s called heat, pressure, uplift, and forward thrust. REMEMBER, Geology class:-)

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  • dizzyinthedark
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 10:32am

    No doubt Louis-you-lie Fairy-con will somehow twist this into a “It was the people’s fault, they were living a sinful life that brought on the wrath of God.”–speech. Here he comes!! Oh wait, I’m sorry, that is only meant for Americans as he hates us, even though he lives and feeds from our hand.

    May God protect his people and bring complete healing to those that are wounded, in Jesus’ name amen.

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  • Hereigns7
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 10:25am

    Let us pray that this does not get any worse. Can anyone see how much is happening in the world right now? Does it not cause you take pause? Many Christians believe that they must go through the Great Tribulation and then Christ will return and usher in a new Millennium. Could we be living it now? Posted by Rev. Daniel W. Blair, author of Final Warning

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  • Hereigns7
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 10:24am

    Let us pray that this does not get any worse. Can anyone see how much is happening in the world right now? Does it not cause you take pause? Many Christians believe that they must go through the Great Tribulation and then Christ will return and usher in a new Millennium. Could we be living it now? Posted by Rev. Daniel W. Blair, author of Final Warning http://www.revelation-truth.org

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    • Upstate SC
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:06am

      Yes sir… I do believe we are.. The earth has started to rumble and there is a comet headed towards the earth that will cause chaos with the natural order of things on this planet. Matt. 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken…30- and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.. Yes sir we will be in mourning at all the chaos and catastrophe taking place in the world.

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    • ManThong
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:48am

      Damn shame there are no virgins left to offer up and forestall the end.

      The only ones left after the big progressive culture shift have been swept up by the muslims for their jihaddi’s.

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    • Wayner
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 1:27pm

      Does this in anyway contribute to global warming?? Noooo not according to Al Gore and now Mitt Romney. It’s the fault of us humans.

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    • SpeaknUp
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:18pm

      No. The tribulation is God’s wrath on the heathen. “God has not appointed us to wrath.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9) The Rapture will come first. Why do I believe this? Because I have confidence in God’s love for His Children.

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