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Tuesday, 18 of August of 2015

15:00

PRESS RELEASE 007

COTOPAXI VOLCANO

This morning government authorities alongside experts from the Geophysics

Institute of the Polytechnic University carried out a flyover the Cotapaxi volcano

with the aid of the Twin Otter Plane of the Ecuadorian Military; here the experts

confirmed continuous but low energetic emissions of water vapor and ashes

heading towards the west side of the volcano with a low altitude impact.

The flyover also determined zero presence of lahars, pyroclastic flows or of

glacier melting, which confirmed a normal state of the glaciers and only the

presence of ashes covering the crater of the volcano.

We remind you the preventive yellow alert continues which cautious the

populations to be alert.