Red Alert declared at Mount Hudson in southern Chile
October 27th, 2011 - 4:07 am ICT by BNO NewsSANTIAGO (BNO NEWS) — The Chilean government on late Wednesday afternoon declared a Red Alert for the country’s Aysén region after a significant increase in seismic activity at Mount Hudson.
The National Office of Emergency of Chile’s Interior Ministry (ONEMI) initially declared a Yellow Alert for the area, but later raised it to Red after seismic activity continued to increase. It ordered about 100 people in a radius of 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) to evacuate.
Mount Hudson last erupted in 1991.
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