Reuters has a short video showing some of the damage inflicted on Chaiten by the volcano of the same name. Looks like the ash, lahars and flooding have wiped out at least a third of the town (according to the voice-over) ... and in a sense, Chaiten (the town) lucked out as the destruction could have been a lot worse.
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Chaiten erupting in May 2008. Image courtesy of ONEMI.
As fall descends on the northern hemisphere, spring starts in the southern. Luckily for us, it means that we get better views of the southern Andes in Chile ...
Excellent website! I think the media's coverage of this event has been atrocious. As far as I know this is a rare type of eruption - i.e. continuous caldera eruption for over a month. Do you know of the last eruption similar to Chaiten? OF course, I suspect Chaiten is not done yet.