A plume of fine ash from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano stretches more than 100 kilometers across Chile and the Pacific Ocean as the volcano continues erupting after more than five months.
Two days of continuous emissions at the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex have created an ash plume the extends more than 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 kilometers).
Two and a half months after its violent initial eruption, Puyehue Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex has settled into a pattern of mild, continuous emissions of gas and ash.
A plume from the erupting Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano stretches 800 kilometers across the sky, while ash spreads across the ground below on June 13, 2011.