MANAGUA - A total of 525 workers of the San Jacinto geothermal company Tizate were evacuated after registering a strong explosion in the Telica volcano, located 125 kilometers west of Managua, officials said. According to the Directorate General of the Institute of Geophysics Nicaraguan Territorial Studies (INET), the Telica recorded a series of small explosions in the last 12 hours and at 0750 local time (13.50 GMT) there was "the biggest explosion in recent days."
gases and ash
That outbreak reached 350 RSAM units (the real-time seismic amplitude), accompanied by gas and ash, the institute said in a statement.
The production manager of the geothermal project, Alvaro Quintanilla, said he ordered the evacuation of its workers before the explosion Wednesday morning in Telica. He said
that activated an emergency plan at the campus, located indoors and its workers were given masks to protect themselves from the ashes.
The evacuation lasted about three hours, said Quintanilla.
ash column rose 600 meters and held for more than two hours of vertical, due to poor air movement, according to the report of Civil Defense, the source said.
Director of Geophysics Ineter, Angélica Muñoz, told reporters that the report received for the disposal of part of the San Jacinto Tizate geothermal plant, warning of a decline in its stock of ash and volcanic material.
"This company has its own emergency plan and took the decision to autoevacuarse facilities," he said.
She explained that this outbreak, the largest that has occurred in recent days in the Telica, waiting for him because he had obstructed the main crater.
activity could lower
"Now may the canal is open and we believe may lower the activity, however, continued monitoring," he said.
The volcano, of 1.061 meters high, was still shaken by growing microearthquakes, ranging from 1 to 3.3 on the Richter scale, with depths ranging from 1 to 2 km, indicating Ineter.
The crater of the volcano was blocked by volcanic material, according to authorities from the walls or bottom of the earth, as a result of seismic activity.
Civil Defense, meanwhile, decided to evacuate Wednesday eleven members of a family living near the crater, the official Radio Ya.
According to the station in the afternoon the volcano made two further loud explosions.
The Telica, one of the most active volcanic chain of Nicaragua, is located in the western province of León.
The microseismic the colossus, located in the cordon of fire "in the Pacific and the second busiest in the country, after the Black Hill is continuing, with magnitudes between 1 and 3.3 degrees on the Richter scale and depths ranging from 1 to 5 miles, detailed the Ineter.
Civil Defense is ready to evacuate 3.703 families living in dozens of surrounding communities.
The Telica recorded eruptions since 1527, although his last violent eruption was in 1948.
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