Word: pasto
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After two days of scientific talks in a Pasto hotel, the geologists interrupted their meeting for morning field trips around and into the volcano. By early afternoon, geologists taking measurements and samples were scattered across the floor and steep rim of the volcano's crater when the mountain blew...
...story starts in 1988 when, after 40 years of quiescence, Galeras began a fresh round of unrest that brought Williams and other scientists running to southern Colombia. Because Galeras hovered just a few miles above the city of Pasto (pop. 300,000), the U.N. put the volcano on its list of natural hazards in need of urgent attention. After shaking and coughing small eruptions for months, Galeras squeezed a plug of lava onto the surface that it blew apart in a dramatic eruption on July 16, 1992. Given the mounting activity, Williams had no problem enticing volcano experts from...