Significant Volcanic Eruption

Eruption Information Volcano Information
Event Date Start Date End Date VEI ID Name Location Latitude Longitude Elevation Morphology Status Time Erupt
2010-05-27 2010-05-27 1 1402-11= Pacaya Guatemala 14.381 -90.601 2552 Complex volcano Historical D1

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Volcano Event Comments

Comments for the Volcanic Event

Guatemala's Pacaya volcano started erupting lava and rocks Thursday afternoon, blanketing the country's capital with ash and forcing the closure of the international airport. A television reporter was killed by a shower of burning rocks when he got too close to the volcano, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of Guatemala City. (reference #9674)

Weekly Report 26 May-1 June 2010: INSIVUMEH reported a continuing series of explosions 5-10 seconds apart that ejected black ash up to 1 km above the crater on 28 May... CONRED reported a short time later that about 1,600 people had been evacuated from six towns 3-4 km W, NNW, N, and NNE, and that Aurora International Airport was closed. According to a map posted by CONRED, blocks fell in areas as far away as 12 km NE and ash was reported in areas E of Chinautla, 37 km NNE. News media reported that one person (a reporter) died and three children were missing. On 29 May, a 90-m-wide lava flow that traveled SSE at an estimated rate of 100 m per hour burned three houses on the Pacaya Grande ranch... (reference #2432)

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References for the Volcano Event

ID Author Year Citation
2432 Venzke, E., R.W. Wunderman, L. McClelland, T. Simkin, J.F. Luhr, L. Siebert, and G. Mayberry(eds.) 2002- Global Volcanism, 1968 to the Present. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-4 (http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/).
9674 Associated Press 2010 Big volcanic eruptions in Guatemala, Ecuador, AP foreign, Friday May 28 2010, The Guardian. Retrieved from link