Talk:Chaitén (volcano)

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Can we have a translation from the Spanish wikipedia? It has a much better article. Spencer^T♦C 11:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The times and dates of the images seem to me extremely unreliable. I'm not convinced I've seen any of the May 6 eruption. The news casts just mix and match whatever they have at hand to provide exciting background. The external image link on the article page mislabels two May 5 MODIS images as May 6, and the beautiful still shot labeled May 6 [1]seems to match images from an airplane POSTED on May 5 to Youtube [2] I don't mean that the image is taken from the video, but the unique features of the ash column seem to match, so these must have been taken around the same time, and think this was the first or second day of the eruption.--L mammel (talk) 03:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

The original image here puzzled me mightily, so I went back to the NASA source and have made a version that makes rather more visual sense - to me at least. The potential impact on the town becomes obvious from this angle... :-( Anihl (talk) 21:50, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

The eruption is continuing, and the only reason I know this is that I check MODIS every day. I don't know why this isn't news. To me, this seems to be an unusual and significant eruption. Anyway, I added a MODIS image to the article.--L mammel (talk) 05:29, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] past tense

The article talks about the form of the volcano (lava dome, two small lakes) in the current tense. These should be refactored to be past-tense, given their presumably unknown state of these given the new eruptions in May 2008. .../Nemo (talk) 01:25, 12 May 2008 (UTC)