In 1943, Mexico was a volcanic eruption of garbage





The poor Mexican peasant Dionosio Pulido was a corn field, and on the hole that he and his family used as a dump. Still would! All that fell there, vanished in the bottomless barrel.

Then one day, namely, February 5, 1943, the villagers felt the tremors, and coming on the February 20 Dionisio found that their "dustbin" cracked in half-meter ground formed crack. The next day a farmer found at the site hole 10-meter hill, which by noon grown up to 50 meters.

Residents felt that it was wrong and left the village. And for good reason, in July 1944 Parícutin village was swept away by the lava from the volcano, which has already reached a height of 424 m. The volcano was named after the former village - Parícutin.

Source: www.nazdar.ru

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