Central American Volcanoes Let Out Spectacular Eruptions

Wired News Mon, Jun 27 10:13 AM PDT 

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Time for an update on a pile of volcanic rumbling, with a special focus on Central America: Costa Rica This weekend saw a couple of eruptions from volcanoes across the valley from each other. Turrialba had another strong explosive eruption on June 24 and it was captured on the RSN thermal webcam. If you watch the video, you can see how the volcano was somewhat calmly steaming before a strong increase in ash and other hot debris, forming billowing clouds emitting from the vent. Turrialba had 11 explosions over the weekend. That might sound dramatic, but none were as strong as what we were seeing in May, so overall, the activity at the volcano has lowered somewhat. On June 26, there was almost ..