[Vulkanen] The ring of fire #5: Het blijft actief

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Villagers flee Philippine volcano
Scores of people were forced to flee their homes after a restive Philippine volcano shot a column of ash into the air showering surrounding villages.
Residents of two villages near the 1565-metre Mount Bulusan volcano evacuated their homes after the volcano shot a column of ash some two kilometres into the air.

"The ones evacuated were those most vulnerable to the ash like the children, the elderly, the pregnant and nursing mothers," said disaster control chief Jose Lopez in an interview with ABS-CBN television.

Evacuees were taken to government schools that are being used as relief centres, he added.

More than 750 people have fled their homes since Bulusan started emitting ash on November 6, Mr Lopez said.

One man with asthma already died from Bulusan's ash emissions on November 11, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said in Manila.

Government vulcanologists had earlier raised the alert level for Bulusan from zero to level 1, indicating abnormal activity, possibly a sign of more ash eruptions to come.

The government has warned people not to enter a four-kilometre "danger zone" around the volcano and communities nearby were told to be on alert for volcanic mudslides caused by heavy rains mixed with ash deposited on Bulusan's slopes.

Bulusan, 250 kilometres southeast of the capital Manila on the main island of Luzon, is one of the country's 23 active volcanos.

The local government said a quarter million people live in six towns around the volcano, and many of them could be at risk if the mild eruption increases in intensity.

Bulusan has erupted 16 times in recorded history, the last time in 2006. It began emitting ash again from November 6.

The Philippines is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire where frequent volcanic eruptions and earthquakes take place

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Panik unter der Bevölkerung
Nach fast fünf Monaten relativer Ruhe hat heute der Vulkan Tungurahu in Ecuador eine gewaltige Explosion erzeugt. Nach Angaben des Geophysikalischen Instituts von Ecuador wurde eine mehrere Kilometer hohe Aschewolke in die Atmosphäre geschleudert.

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5.4 Magnitude Earthquake shakes Indonesia's supervolcanic lake, Lake Toba

Lake Toba is an Indonesian supervolcano with a lake on the crater, the supervolcano is 100 kilometres long and 35 kilometres wide. The deepest point of the volcano is 1,666ft. The supervolcano is located on the island of Sumatra that also suffered the worst in the 2004 earthquake. The lake on the volcano is the largest in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world.

Today Lake Toba suffered a 5.4 Magnitude earthquake, the earthquake was larger than normal tremors on the volcano. In history the eruption of Toba had global consequences, killing thousands. Once Lake Toba erupted and it led to a volcanic winter worldwide. (That theory is still debated today).

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Renewed activity in Ecuador
Volcanic activity has been reported in the Tungurahua (Throat of Fire) volcano in Ecuador, the second case sighted in the past few weeks.

The volcano spewed molten rocks and large clouds of gas and ash near Banos, south of Quito, Reuters reporetd on Tuesday.

The Tungurahua's volcanic activity follows last month's eruption, when a column of gas shot up seven kilometers into the sky.

No casualties have been recorded so far, but flight re-direction is being considered.

Tungurahua is located approximately 150 kilometers southeast of Ecuador's capital, Quito.

After a long period of peaceful resting, the volcano erupted in 1999, leading to the evacuation of about 250,000 people.

In 2006, Tungurahua underwent another major eruption, leading to the death of seven villagers. Yet another major eruption took place in 2008, leading to more evacuations. The next eruptions occurred in May and in November 2010.

Tungurahua's eruptions are strombolian, or low-level eruptions. Following its 1999 eruption, the volcano continues its activity on a medium level.

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Authorities order evacuations
BANOS, Ecuador, Dec 4, 2010 (AFP) - Authorities ordered the preventive evacuation Saturday in the southern Ecuadoran town of Bano as they put the country on high alert over a possible major eruption of the Tungurahua volcano.

"People are coming to safe areas in an orderly fashion," Deputy Interior Minister Edwin Jarrin told AFP.

The Geophysical Institute in Quito reported since early Saturday a "very rapid and sustained increase in seismic activity and other manifestations at the surface" of the volcano.

Tungurahua, which has been erupting off and on since 1999, was spewing out incandescent material and ash, according to the institute.

A red alert was in effect in Banos and other Andean villages of the 5,029-meter (16,500-foot) volcano, whose name means "throat of fire" in the local Quechua language. It is located some 135 kilometers (85 miles) south of Quito.

In 1999, the 15,000 inhabitants of this town were forcibly evacuated by a powerful eruption and were unable to return to their homes for a year.

Banos, one of the gateways to the Amazon jungle, hosts an average of a million tourists a year, 40 percent of them foreigners, according to local officials.

Tungurahua’s biggest eruption, in August 2006, left six people dead and destroyed hundreds of homes.

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Op maandag 6 december 2010 10:54 schreef Jumparound het volgende:

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Eruptive Activity at Tungurahua Volcano Decreases

QUITO - The eruptive activity of the Ecuadorian Tungurahua volcano, located in the Tungurahua province, reduced its intensity while maintaining a constant column of ash.

The emission column, with a moderate to high contents of ash, reached about two miles above the crater and headed towards the east, although experts believe that it has reduced the danger to surrounding areas.

Incandescent blocks associated to the activity of the volcano of 1.029 meters of altitude roll down the flanks of the volcano.

As of Saturday afternoon, a decline of the intensity has been registered in the activity of this volcano which had earlier forced to declare a red alert and the evacuation of residents and tourists of nearby areas.

The Tungurahua, located south of Quito, has been active since 1999, according to director of the Geophysical Institute Hugo Yépez.

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Op dinsdag 7 december 2010 12:53 schreef ScudRaket het volgende:
Edit: Mooi filmpje: http://www.dumpert.nl/med(...)rahua_timelapse.html

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Volcano Erupts In Russian Far East, Massive Eruption Feared

VLADIVOSTOK, Dec 17 (Bernama) -- A volcano in the Russian Far East peninsula erupted several days ago, prompting experts to raise the hazard level caused by the possible massive eruption, reports China's Xinhua news agency on Friday.

The volcano Kizimen, located in the Kamchatka Peninsula, has spewed ashes as high as 10 km into sky and the western slope of the mountain has been covered with ashes due to high winds.

The snow on the slope was thawing quickly, pushing river water level up by 60 cm.

Specialists don't rule out the possibility of a massive eruption of Kizimen, which has remained dormant for 80 years.

A helicopter would soon be sent to the site to check whether the eruption was still going on.

The nearest human settlement is about 110 km away from the volcano.

The Kamchatka Peninsula has a high density of volcanoes, flanked by large volcanic belts containing about 160 volcanoes, with 29 of them still active.

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Fuego, Guatemala rumbling, building up for ... ?
One of Guatemala's active volcanoes, Fuego, is rumbling at a greater-than-usual rate, the emergency services office said Saturday.
The volcano is seeing 12-15 small explosive events per hour, the office said, citing a report from the National Seismological Institute.

Fuego is belching ash to heights of 500-900 meters and ash has been seen in the cities of Antigua Guatemala and San Juan Alotenango, the office said.

At 3,763 meters (12,345 feet) above sea level, Fuego sprawls across three departments of the Central American nation: Sacatepequez, Escuintla and Chimaltenango.

In May, the Pacaya volcano in Escuintla department spewed ash over much of the country

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Mount Krakatau ash clouds reach up to two kilometers

ANYER - The height of the ash clouds that are currently being emitted by the Mount Krakatau volcano is still increasing and reaches almost up to two kilometers now. The volcano, located in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra, also shows an increase in the amount of tremors inside the belly of the volcano.

Based on visual observations of the volcano, ash clouds now reach up to 1.700 meters and above, higher than in the past few days. This was reported by the head of the observation post for the Krakatau volcano in the village of Pasauran in Serang, Banten province, Anton S. Pambudi. He also said that the higher ash cloud was due to increased activity inside the volcano.

The Agency for Volcanology and Geological Disasters PVMBG is maintaining the alert status of the volcano for the time being; level two. People near the volcano are not allowed to come close to the crater of the volcano. There is a chance that volcanic material falls from the sku in the area. The Mount Krakatau volcano often emits small stones that fall down on it's slopes.

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Etna active - no lava yet
Mount Etna in Sicily has once again become active erupting large amounts of ash, reported Monday Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.

Seismologists have recorded the eruption of volcano at Mount Etna and say that it is accompanied by the ejection of volcanic ‘bombs’ (large stones) and the large amount of ash in the area southeast of the crater on Monday night.

The most active emissions for duration ranging from one to three minutes occurred between midnight and two o’clock in the morning. These large volcanic ‘bombs’ reached a height of several tens of meters over the crater. By around 06.00 am the volcanic activity decreased significantly, but not stopped completely.

However, no eruption of lava has been recorded from the crater of Mount Etna, said experts from National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology lab, located in the city of Catania.