Actividad Santiaguito for this week. 
Many have asked me what happened to Santiaguito activity has caused alarm.
A very personal comment.
In earlier days, to date Monday, 26 April 2,010. explosive volcanic activity decreased Santiaguito revealed only relatively abundant white degassing at heights of 50 to 100 meters above the crater steadily, with the peculiarity that is observed for short periods of blue smoke emissions mainly in the northwest of the crater.
The avalanche activity was low, even though months ago he watched from abundant food of juvenile material all the way around the crater.
the early hours of the morning of April 26, cloudiness prevailed in the volcano so the visibility was low. Being
6:45 am as Monte Bello estate reports in the jurisdiction of the palmar Palajunoj, west of the volcanic complex, then heard a loud noise and were able to notice the column of ash that fell in the southwestern part of the dome. Reports of village and farm loma linda la florida near the volcanic complex reported that she felt weak earthquake in this precise time.
This activity was preceded four pyroclastic flows while not fully able to observe the noise emitted by material falling was heard to neighboring farms. Being
eight hours, we could observe high crater explosive column protruding from the clouds for their characteristic grayish color. Uploaded ash with their classical training similar to a fungus, this column was observed from the city of Quetzaltenango, at an altitude of 3,000 meters, causing alarm among residents. Being
eight-thirty minutes starts falling ash in the form of rain within a radius of 8 km around the dome, the peculiarity of all this is that the greatest amount of ash did not fall in these carriers, the prevailing wind was moved to Air Cities Quetzaltenango, San Marcos, Totonicapán, Huehuetenango and Mazatenango, the latter south of the dome complex.
Perhaps the most affected village was Santa Maria de Jesus to the east and northeast of the dome where appreciation the paved road and sports fields completely gray with ash.
The National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) remained on orange alert and suspended classes in Quetzaltenango and some schools in the area of \u200b\u200bPalajunoj. Since this day is made physical education classes and many children returning just completely covered by this ash and to avoid health problems it was decided to suspend classes until further notice.
In Mazatenango through national television vehicles could be seen completely covered with ash.
hours after this event the volcanic area remained completely covered by clouds and the day Tuesday he hoped it would be fine for the respective assessments of field fully dawned cloudy, but there were times you could see part of the crater, but the presence of haze in the same way could not be observed fully. However
all this rumble and sounds remained a constant and moderate to severe noise and avalanches in block and ash.
On Wednesday, it was observed that some of the material piled in the southwest of the crater fell sharply, forming clouds burning, as well as southeast of the crater. The wave of heat generated by this event fully dry vegetation around the dome about 150 hilly acres. It was burned as you can imagine some simply observes the normal vegetation with the difference that it is brown.
All material fell was deposited in the banks of the river and San Isidro nima, representing a potential danger by the presence of rain with the generation of flows of mud and volcanic debris (lahars).
Analysis: Prior to this event
the average temperature in the morning was between 20.5 ° degrees Celsius on Tuesday morning the temperature rose to 24.3 °. Degrees Celsius. The following days the temperature returns to be in the range of 19.9 ° to 20.9 °, other comments is that because of the humidity prevailing in the environment and ejected ash plays an important role in the condensation of this moisture, some of the ash absorbs moisture causing it to give heavy rainfall and electrical activity.
On Friday 30 April, heavy rainfall occurred across the area to be levied an amount of 163.1 MM. in term of 9.00 hrs.
lahars in river and San Isidro nima one listed as moderate, but these are not unusual, what makes me believe that the greatest amount of material still remains deposited near the dome. Volcanological Observatory of
Santiaguito remains on alert to report any event through INSIVUMEH. And radio and television reported the Coordinator for Disaster Reduction, maintains constant communication with radio base placed at strategic points around the Santiaguito lahars rivers which flow into the river Samal. Santiaguito activity continues with more explosions were observed between 2 to 3 hour moderate explosions. (In times of visibility)
They are not so frequent rumble, sounds, hope everything is going normal in the coming weeks. Anyway
write this summary for my friends that I wrote. forgive so quickly in this publication is that it has been a busy week.
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