Incredible images of the Calbuco volcano in Chile.
Residents of Southern Chile are dealing with the aftermath of two volcanic eruptions at
Calbuco Volcano in just 24 hours:
The volcano erupted Wednesday afternoon for the first time in more than four decades, and then had another outburst early Thursday. No injuries are reported but one hiker remains missing.
There were
no warning signs:
The National Mining and Geology Service issued a high alert, barring access to the area around the volcano, which lies near the cities of Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt, a little more than 620 miles south of Chile's capital, Santiago.
"For us it was a surprise," said Alejandro Verges, regional emergency director of the Los Lagos region where the eruption took place. He said Calbuco wasn't under any special form of observation.
Watch this simultaneously beautiful and scary time-lapse video of the eruption from
YouTube user Rodrigo Barrera: