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Volcano’s spectacular eruption sends ash 6 miles into sky (Photos, Video)

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Localtion of Puyehue volcano. (AFP/Getty Images)This extraordinary image show the full force of Mother Nature as a Chilean volcano erupts for the first time in 50 years. (AFP/Getty Images)This extraordinary image show the full force of Mother Nature as a Chilean volcano erupts for the first time in 50 years. (AFP/Getty Images)4 photosView the full slideshow »
This extraordinary image show the full force of Mother Nature as a Chilean volcano erupts for the first time in 50 years. (AFP/Getty Images)

SANTIAGO, Chile – After a flurry of 230 tremors in an hour, the Puyehue volcano in Southern Chile erupted on Saturday throwing ash into the sky as high as six miles into the stratosphere.

This is the volcano’s first eruption in 50 years that has prompted officials to evacuate 3,500 so far.  Authorities have also been forced to close a busy border crossing into neighboring Argentina due to heavy ash coating the towns there. 

View slideshow: Chilian volcano’s spectacular eruption sends ash 6 miles into sky

Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain of about 2,000 volcanoes is the world's second largest after Indonesia.

It was three years ago when Chile’s Chaiten volcano erupted for the first time in thousands of years.  The massive eruption that spewed molten rock and a huge cloud of ash was visible from space.

Photos – Amazing photographs of Puyehue volcano eruption.

Video – Puyehue volcano eruption

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This extraordinary image show the full force of Mother Nature as a Chilean volcano erupts for the first time in 50 years.
This extraordinary image show the full force of Mother Nature as a Chilean volcano erupts for the first time in 50 years.
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Chilian volcano’s spectacular eruption sends ash 6 miles into sky.

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Rebecca Kelley has been a reporter for The Press Enterprise in Southern California and The Oakland Press in Michigan for almost two decades. She has extensive experience interviewing and writing about celebrities, politicians, education, criminal and courts, business and people from all walks of...

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