SANTIAGO - The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted on Saturday after half a century of sleep, forcing the evacuation of 3500 people and generating a giant cloud of ash that reached neighboring Argentina. The National Service of Geology and Mining (SERNAGEOMIN) of Chile has announced that the Puyehue erupted in the volcanic complex Caulle cord, caused "an explosion that produces a high gas column height of 10 km about ". The government ordered in the afternoon the evacuation of some 3500 people residing in over twenty towns near the volcano, located 870 km south of Santiago, near the Argentine border. Initially, some 600 people were evacuated in the morning as a precautionary measure after an initial warning SERNAGEOMIN, warning of strong seismic activity in the region, prior to a possible eruption. A dozen earthquakes of medium intensity, magnitude 4 were recorded in a few hours and a hundred small instensité. The National Emergency Office (Onemi) announced that at 3:15 pm (7:15 pm GMT), "the alert level Volcanic Geology Department has been elevated to 6 (on a scale of 8) corresponding to a moderate eruption. "We can see the mouth of the volcano, a column of smoke and (...) we perceive a strong smell of sulfur," said the prefect of the region of Los Rios Juan Andres Varas, quoted by media chilena, whose website the Mercurio. In neighboring Argentina, in the city of Bariloche, Landmark mountain located 100 km east of Puyehue, the thick cloud of ash from the eruption <b>...</b>
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