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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (1634)	10/21/2006 4:18:54 PM
From: ms.smartest.person	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3198

Tungurahua volcano not near Aurelian ... In response to my 7/19 email inquiry about the volcano and if it would affect Aurelian. ===================== news.scotsman.com See the attached map* Merry and the link above. Tungurahua is more than 300 kilometres away from the project and on the west side of the Andes Mountains. The Condor Project is on the east side. There is no threat of any kind whatsoever. Incidentally, I went to Tunguahua a few years ago to visit a vulcanologist who was stationed there. He was the person who ordered the evacuation of Bacos village at the base of the volcano in 1999. The villagers expecting the "Big One" to happen within hours hastily took whatever they could get and ran off to safety. Well, they waited, and waited, and waited. After a month they started jumping the barriers and sneaking back to their homes at night, and by 4 months the soldiers manning the barricades gave up and went home. The vulcanologist told me that my hotel at the foot of the mountain was in the "red zone". In other words, had a pyroclastic flow erupted I would have precisely 55 seconds to clear out (probably just enough time to yell some expletives). He could have given me some warning and told me not to stay there!! This guy is probably the only vulcanologist worldwide who has every received death threats from the people he was trying to protect! The townsfolk were angry at him because he had ordered the evacuation. The volcano was hurling out Volkswagen Beetle sized rocks every few minutes or so, and there were lots of explosions. I was safely watching with binoculars about 4 km away. Anyway, the big eruption is happening now, 7 years later than expected. Be assured it will not affect Aurelian in any way. Cheers and best regards, Keith *Attached map can be found at: reliefweb.int click on 'View full map'