1946 
Jan, 4 
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The noises continue, diminishing little by little, then repeating with more 
force. They do not effect the vapor column, for these rise without any 
force. They are no more than a white raist, gathering in a dense black 
cloud 6-8 kilometers northeast of the volcano. Gusts of dust all during 
the afternoon. In the night the crater almost without light or escoria. 
The noises in the crater continue and the vapor which arises is a veil, 
which becomes finer at a distance. It drifts toward the northeast. 
The winds blow from the east, changing to west winds in the afternoon. 
At six o'clock in the evening, the vapor column changed in a moment toward 
the southwest. In the night not an incandescent bomb of any size. 
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It dawns with a curtain of cloud connecting the Cerro de Tancitaro with that 
of Patamba, west of the volcano and a hoar frost covers the region 
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noises of the crater lessen, the vapors that form are white, simple, and 
rise without force, only when the noises are stronger are the vapors yel- 
lowish. After midday violent winds from the west and the dust are terrible. 
The lava vent southwest of the cone continues in activity, pouring lava down 
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the slope at approximately 30 meters per minute. Almost in all parts to 
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This is extraordinarily rapid 
Guiterrez may mean. 
Thirty meters per hour is xvhat Celedonia 
the southwest one sees the rocks tinted green or yellow; through the gases 
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given off by the vents of the hornitos. The typical noise of the hornitos. 
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The term h omito is used at Paricutin for irregular chimney-like forms 
on the lava from which gases issue. 
particularly the small cone, south of the main cone where the lava flows 
most actively give a continuous noise. More to the south of the cone con- 
tinues to swell, making a clinkery sound as the stones roll down. 
