#volcano activity

Did you know that you can sign up for USGS volcanic email alerts and you’ll get text or email messages letting you know the alert has changed? You can specify for a certain geographic range (eg Aleutians, Cascadia, etc) and for higher alert levels.

Really recommended if you live in the PNW or near large volcanic ranges (most of the west coast and islands due to Pacific ring of fire).

Video taken from The Telegraph

HELP GUATEMALA FROM THE FUEGO VOLCANO!!!!

On june 3rd, el Volcán de Fuego erupted leaving the whole country in alert. Here’s some stuff you need to know and how you can help. The massive eruption blasted smoke more than four miles into the sky and set off a pyroclastic surge, something like the one from Pompeii in AD 79. It buried several villages like El Rodeo, leaving several deads already. Its eruption threw a river of hot lava and produced thick clouds of smoke of almost 9.6 kilometers in the air. There are 1,7 million affected people, 3.265 evacuated, 1.687 shelteres, 46 wounded  and 33 dead according to CNN.

BUT WAIT

That’s not the only volcano threat at the moment. The volcanoes Santiaguito and Pacaya are currently active, praying for them to stay calm. Also, two earthquakes have been reported by Conred authorities.

What is the government doing about it?

N O T H I N G  U S E F U L L

In fact, they take profit from it, using this moment of tragedy to plan amnesty for illicit electoral financing. What did the president say about this yesterday?

"I'm embarrassed to say it, but the law prevents us from spending a single penny on this type of emergency" President Jimmy Morales added during the press conference in conjunction with CONRED.

What are we doing about it?

There are many gathering centers to leave donations, from food and clothes to sanitary resources. Living in Guatemala? Check out this places.

Whoever, as amazing as our government is (it isn’t), it’s not receiving the supplements other countries are sending us,  -  that’s  right -  our dear president is not currently accepting outer help ‘cause they have it “under control”.

So, what can YOU do about it?

The best and most efficient way to help all the affected people is to donate to Guatemala’s Red Cross to the account 3033699352 from Banrural Bank with the name of Cruz Roja Guatemala. The Swift / IBAN code is GT03 BRRL 0101 0000 0030 3369 9352. You can also use any of the following main intermediary banks:

Citibank, N.A. Swift: CITIUS33. ABA: 021000089. Wells Fargo Bank. Swift: PNBPUS3NNYC. ABA: 026005092. Commerzbank AG. Swift: COBADEFF

Really, it’s not that hard. Even $1 is of great help ($1 aprox Q7.5) This is the best way to help if you’re not in Guatemala. Please reblog and share this to other people so they can be informed and support out country. You can keep searching about this tragedy and the stories of the people who survived in reliable sources like CNN, El País and Guatevisión (last two are in spanish, so if you don’t understand you can translate it with google).

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A "unique" burst of activity at a little-known volcanic complex near the Chile-Argentina border has attracted the interest of international scientists and led worried governments to plan for a potentially devastating eruption.