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Chile’s Chaiten Volcano Erupts
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Published May 7, 2008
Three days after its surprise eruption on May 2, the Chaitén volcano of southern Chile was still pumping out dense clouds of ash. The plume extended over the Andes Mountains, across Argentina, and hundreds of kilometers over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Faroe, Shetland, and Orkney Island groups, North Atlantic Ocean
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Cyclone Nargis Floods Burma (Myanmar)
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Published May 6, 2008
The first cyclone of the 2008 season in the northern Indian Ocean was a devastating one for Burma (Myanmar). Cyclone Nargis came ashore across the Mouths of the Irrawaddy and followed the coastline northeast. The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image. The fallow agricultural areas appear to have been especially hard hit.
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Ash plume from eruption of Chaiten volcano, Chile (morning overpass, false color)
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