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"From Palictahua"
Tungurahua, an active Ecuadorian Volcano, lets out a
huge cloud of smoke over the destroyed pueblo of Palictahua on October 20,
2006. On August 16, 2006 Tungurahua erupted killing six people and
devastating all the pueblos surrounding the active volcano. In the last few
days Tungurahua has been creating huge mushroom clouds of ash leading to
large scale evacuations.
Late Wednesday night, August 16, 2006 Tungurahua
began to erupt sending lava down the sides of the mountain and covering the
local communities with ash. The town of Palictagua was hit hard by the
disaster when lava came through the village killing six people and seriously
burning a fourteen-year-old boy. The volcano erupted in July of this year and
in 1999 as well. The last series of serious eruptions was between 1915 and
1925. Experts say that an eruption much more powerful than the eruption in
August is likely to happen in the near future, but nobody knows when. People
in the surrounding communities lost everything and almost 800 families are
living in shelters.
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