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Chaiten Volcano Erupts
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Published May 7, 2008
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Faroe, Shetland, and Orkney Island groups, North Atlantic Ocean
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Chile’s Chaiten Volcano Erupts
Three days after its surprise eruption on May 2, the Chaitén volcano of southern Chile was still pumping out dense clouds of ash. The plume extended over the Andes Mountains, across Argentina, and hundreds of kilometers over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Ash plume from eruption of Chaiten volcano, Chile (afternoon overpass, true color)
Published May 6, 2008
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Ash plume from eruption of Chaiten volcano, Chile (afternoon overpass, false color)
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Ash plume from eruption of Chaiten volcano, Chile (morning overpass, true color)
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Ash plume from eruption of Chaiten volcano, Chile (morning overpass, false color)
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Cyclone Nargis Floods Burma (Myanmar)
The first cyclone of the 2008 season in the northern Indian Ocean was a devastating one for Burma (Myanmar). Cyclone Nargis came ashore across the Mouths of the Irrawaddy and followed the coastline northeast. The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image. The fallow agricultural areas appear to have been especially hard hit.
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Published May 5, 2008
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Cyclone Nargis
Cyclone Nargis passed over Burma (Myanmar) after having formed in the Bay of Bengal. At one point, Nargis was a Category 4 cyclone, with sustained winds of 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour). The typhoon lost strength before coming ashore on May 2 as a Category 3/4 storm, but it still carried very powerful winds and heavy rain when it struck the low-lying coastal plains, causing severe damage. News reports cited a death toll of 10,000 people, with thousands more missing, as of May 5.
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Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert
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