Volcanoes
Seems like everytime I'm away from home for a long period of time "exciting" things happen down in Ecuador (not to say that they don't while I'm there). When I went for one year to University of Illinois on my Junior year of college, the Guagua Pichincha erupted, or well, it had an explosion which covered Quito with an ash rain. Here is a pictures from my-quito.com of the explosion
A couple of days ago, Tungurahua, another large volcano in Ecuador, had some major explosions on an eruptive process that started in 1999. Here is an image taken from terra.com of this last eruption.
Although watching a volcanic eruption must be a really amazing thing, I also thought about all the people who are affected by this, which shows how weak we are compare to this big rock called Earth, in which we all live (and that most of the time we don't really care about). The volcano not has only made lots of people leave their homes, but is reported that about 19.000 ha of land used for agriculture had been affected which is really big lost for all the people there who has agriculture as the main income resource.
A couple of days ago, Tungurahua, another large volcano in Ecuador, had some major explosions on an eruptive process that started in 1999. Here is an image taken from terra.com of this last eruption.
Although watching a volcanic eruption must be a really amazing thing, I also thought about all the people who are affected by this, which shows how weak we are compare to this big rock called Earth, in which we all live (and that most of the time we don't really care about). The volcano not has only made lots of people leave their homes, but is reported that about 19.000 ha of land used for agriculture had been affected which is really big lost for all the people there who has agriculture as the main income resource.
posted by Fernando Sanchez at 7:13 PM
1 Comments:
well...it's not necessarily a loss to agriculture. A good part of the soil's nutrient can be enriched by the volcanic ash, which is high in certain mineral. This is one reason why towards the bottom of the volcano, you'll see a lush of plant life.
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