As I was sitting down to dinner, I opened an email forwarded by my mother, and originally sent by Ana Sylvia in El Salvador. It read:
Have you heard of this?
http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=6376&idArt=4829267http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=6376&idArt=4829574
http://www.theworldpress.com/press/worldpress/salvadorpress/laprensa.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/28/guatemala.volcano/index.html
After dinner, I checked Google news and read a volcano erupted in Guatemala and another in Ecuador. There have been some fatalities, but I haven’t had a chance to read much more. Naturally, my family will be checking on friends in Guatemala where Mom, Dad lived for 6 months and older sis for about 3. Friends in El Salvador should be ok.
Do you know anything about Ecuador? My sister is volunteering there right now.
LIz–
Sorry, I don’t know anything about Ecuador. I only learned about that when googled volcano, and saw there were two eruption withing a short period of time.
Ecuador news clip.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29226334.htm
Doesn’t appear to be any reports of injuries or deaths from a number of other reports.
This is my favorite volcano blog-
http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/
and has some info on Pacaya here-
http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/05/updates_on_eruptions_in_guatem.php
with links to other info sources in the comments. Later update looks like the tropical storm is adding to the damage and casualties, so not nice at the moment.
Thanks Cluri!
@Liz
As today, the Tungurahua is still active, but its intensity in much lower. Things have calmed down over here in Ecuador. Lots of people with flu, that’s all. Unless your daughter is volunteering somewhere close to the Tungurahua, she should be perfectly save.