Peru to declare emergency status as Ubinas volcano rumbles
Lima, PeruReuters Peru will declare emergency status in the area around the Ubinas volcano in the southern region of Moquegua, the Prime Minister said on Monday, as the country’s most active volcano has been spewing ash for several days. The National Institute of Civil Defense (INDECI) said in a statement that the area’s status alert […]
Residents in for months-long displacement as Philippine volcano spews lava, gases
Manila, Philippines Reuters At least 14,000 people evacuated from around a volcano spewing lava and noxious gases in the central Philippines may remain displaced from their homes for months, authorities warned on Tuesday. Incandescent lava was seen flowing slowly from the mouth of the 2,462-metre Mayon volcano, which was placed on a high alert level […]
Updated: Volcano erupts in Russian far east, followed by an earthquake
Updated: 7:15am, 12th April, 2023 (AEST)Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia Reuters One of Russia’s most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that smothered villages in drifts of grey volcanic dust and triggered an aviation warning. The Shiveluch volcano erupted just after midnight and […]
Some people living near Colombian volcano are loath to evacuate
Bogota, ColombiaReuters Colombia’s government is trying to speed up the evacuation of some 2,500 families living closest to the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which is being monitored for a possible eruption, but some residents are refusing to leave. The volcano’s eruption in 1985 killed more than 25,000 people in Colombia’s biggest-ever natural disaster, with avalanches […]
Postcards: One year after volcanic blast, many of Tonga’s reefs lay silent
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Know It All: Hawaii’s Mauna Loa
JONATHAN ALLEN, of Reuters, looks at some facts and figures about Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano…
Snapshot: Nyamuragira, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Philippines raises alert level at restive volcano after spewing cloud of ash
Manila, The PhilippinesReuters A restive volcano in the central Philippines spewed a column of ash at least one kilometre into the sky on Sunday, prompting authorities to raise the alert at Mount Bulusan by one notch and remind residents not to enter the danger zone. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised its alert […]
Tonga reconnects to world as submarine cable restored after tsunami
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Tonga was reconnected to the world on Tuesday following repairs to a submarine cable, officials said, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation. “People on the main island will have access almost immediately,” Tonga Cable chief executive James Panuve told Reuters by telephone, after […]
Tonga goes into lockdown; COVID cases not at international aid port – official
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Two COVID-19 cases in wharf workers in tsunami-hit Tonga were at a different wharf to that used by foreign naval ships delivering aid, a Tongan official said, as the previously virus-free nation prepares to go into lockdown on Wednesday to stop infections. There have been fears an influx of international ships and planes […]