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Another dome collapse at Chaiten.....photos are unreal

http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2009/02/ ... -collapse/

http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2009/02/ ... uary-2009/

Those pictures are amazing.

In the last two hours we've have two earthquakes. These were the same jolting type of earthquake we felt before the very first eruption. No sign of an eruption on the webcam.

kel

I am doing research for a novel and planning a trip to Chile April 20 - 29 specifically to visit Chaiten Volcano. I have located a guide, Nicolas La Penna, of Chaitur Excursions http://www.chaitur.com/index_en.htm who will arrange lodging for me in Chaiten and take me and my traveling companion to within 2 km of the lava dome. I understand Chaiten has no city services, and am fine with that. I will be staying in Chaiten approximately four days.

Any tips, warnings, and advice would be very much appreciated.

Karen

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Thanks for the welcome! It's good to know you know Nicolas - we've exchanged a couple of emails, and he seems very helpful, straightforward and honest - I'm really looking forward to working with him, and of course, I'm incredibly excited about the trip.

I've been reading everything I can find about Chaiten, but until I found this forum, all of the information was dated to before the volcano erupted. So glad I found you all. I don't have anything to offer in return, but hopefully I can contribute something useful after my trip.

Or even photographs and words while there.

Will do!

Hi,
if you want some pictures from Chaiten after eruption I will be glad to put it in my Patagonia site.
I'm not posting here anymore because as far as I know, its a forum only for people in Chile and this is not my case.
Anyway, be my guest visiting http://www.photopatagonia.com , lots of Chile and Argentina images.

Marcelo

Dear All,

I am a freelance journalist based in Buenos Aires and will be heading to Chaiten in a few weeks to prepare a news report for AP Television on the moving of Chaiten to Santa Barbara.

Primarily I plan to spend a day or two in Chaiten to film what is possible. I am at the initial stages of my preparation but would really appreciate if anyone here can advise me of any members of the community of Chaiten that are against this moving of their town.

Any other pointers you might have also would of course be gratefully received.

Hope you don't mind the calls for advice and thanks for the forum.

regards,

Paul