Time-lapse video shows Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano spewing ash and smoke as millions of residents prepare for possible evacuations.
Dramatic time-lapse video shows Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano spewing ash and smoke as millions of residents prepare for possible evacuations.Concern about the Popocatepetl volcano changes with the wind. While east of the mountain residents swept streets and didn't remove their masks on Tuesday, here to the west, they casually watched the gas and ash plume emerging from its crater.
"We know that right now it's releasing smoke, that's freeing the energy that it holds," she said. Ash still rests on the awning that shades her plants from when the wind blew her way last weekend. The town was shaken by the volcano's tremors, but as long as the ash remains light she believes it will help her plants.
Three days ago "my house shook almost all night, it was amazing," said Arturo Benítez, a former local official. "The sound of the volcano was strong, it resembled a lit boiler and a lot of ash fell, but then suddenly on this side it settled down."That was Sunday, when authorities raised the alert level, while maintaining there is not current risk to the population.
Now she runs a local information service from the back of her shop. Residents bring her short messages scribbled on a piece of paper that she then reads over a loudspeaker the whole community can hear. So far authorities have asked nothing of her, just to keep an eye out. "The pyroclastic cloud came to Amecameca and it was chaos, everyone wanted to leave then and it was tremendous," he said.
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