Volcanic activity of Pacaya leaves capital on February 20th. (Photo: Elmer Vargas)
The Insivumeh informs this February 20 that the Volcano of Pacaya maintains a high level of activity and presents periods of increment that can continue in the coming days.
Following an official bulletin of the 19 hours, the Pacaya maintains estromboliana activity -explosion with ceniza columns with altitudes of 3 milsnm- and ceniza columns displaced by 15 and 25 kilometers on the flanks on the south, east and west.
Look at the material bulb at 300 y 400 meters of height with ballistics and 500 meters around the crater. On the flank on the existing lava flow of 1 mile 100 meters in length.
Insivumeh does not deny that volcanic activity generates new pulses of increments in the near hours or days, which produces the most cynical column emissions, explosions with ballistic velocity, as well as the longitudinal increment in lava flow speaker of the volcanic cone.
Recommended
The Insivumeh commands the Conred to be dependent on the activity of the volcanoes of Fuego, Pacaya and Santiaguito.
También tomar en quuente que en est epoca se estat dande clandios cambios cibos por lo que se gener lluvia dabil a moderada, que pueden ocasionar correntadas o lahares por las barrancas y causes de rios en los volcanes de Fuego y Santiaguito.
The Pacaya National Park and the commune of San Vicente Pacaya are recommended to be located near the Pacaya National Park, due to the high activity of the last days, there is a pilgrimage of avalanches, explosions, ballistics, quemaduras or mayors.
For air traffic
The General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics recommends that precautions be taken with air traffic in the area of the volcanoes, mainly in the volcano of Pacaya and Fuego, in order to reach a distance of 15 to 25 kilometers on the eastern and eastern flanks.
I recommend to the General Board of Caminos and Provial take the precautions for the floods in the area of the volcanoes of Fuego and Santiaguito, for corrections and / or reports that can be presented, mainly at the point of the rivers, Puente Las Lajas to Los Lotes y vuelta del niño.
Although the Inguat instructs guias and tourists, in the ascension and permanence in the rugged areas of the volcanoes of Fuego, Pacaya and Santiaguito.
The municipalities of San Juan Alotenango and Acatenango recommend not allowing the ascent to occur in the zone of the volcano of the volcano of Fuego, by being exposed to the ballistic cycle.
Volcano de Fuego
In the nocturnal and insidious transcendence he observed devilish and moderate explosions, ranging from 8 to 12 per hour, extending ceniza columns to 4 mil 500 and 4 mil 800 msnm. (14763 to 15748 pie) which the wind displaces on the flank on, surest a distance of 15 to 20 kilometers, reports the time of ceniza in the ages of Morelia, Santa Sofia, Panimaché and San Pedro Yepocapa.
The explosions generate rebounds and shock waves, causing vibration of techos and winds of aldeas on the eastern and upper flanks.
The wind blows the money away, forming the curtains of the curtain in the folds of the volcano. Observations are underway in the direction of the bars, Seca, Ceniza, Taniluya, Trinidad, Las Lajas and Honda. The explosions are moderate.
Volcán Santiaguito
If you look at the crater of the Domo Caliente, with the main gas degassing, it contains water vapor and explosive and moderate explosions, accompanied by a height of 3 milsnm. (9 mil 842 pie) displaced to the west and suroeste.
Debate at the wind blows through the night, it feels like azure in the old Las Marías and others in this area. Continue the activity of lava flow in blocks in the crater, generating avalanches of blocks and Ceniza, in the flanks, west and east.
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Debt to the unstable of the material in the crater exists the probability of moderate pyroclastic flows, because there is no need to locate near or near the causes of the nearby rivers in the folds of the volcano.
At the moment no lava flows have been generated.