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by Jocelyne Zablit Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted from its summit early Thursday, shooting a huge plume of ash miles into the sky and prompting authorities to urge area residents to take cover. The Hawaii Volcano Observatory said the explosion within Kilauea’s Halemaumau crater had produced a volcanic cloud that reached as high as 30,000 feet (9,000 meters) and was drifting downwind to the northeast. The Observatory […]
(Eagle News) — The previous eight-kilometer danger zone around Mayon volcano has now been extended to nine kilometers because of the volcano’s continuous explosions and lava fountaining. This was the decision of the Albay provincial government as Mayon spewed more ash, smoke and even lava that signaled that hazardous eruption is “imminent.” More than 75,000 people have fled the danger areas surrounding Mayon, according to civil defense officials. Local officials are also thinking of […]
ALBAY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Residents of Barangay Masarawag in Guinobatan, Albay are now in evacuation centers, arriving there since 4 p.m. Monday, January 15. About 40 people occupied 30 classrooms in Guinobatan West Central School as of Monday night. Some of the residents had dinner inside the evacuation centers. At around 7 p.m. Monday, the school principal Haydee Cadag conducted an orientation of the room coordinators. Other evacuees had to be housed in […]
NAGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) — Japan held a drill on Wednesday (November 22) in an imagined situation in which a warhead fired from an unspecified country strikes Nagasaki. The drill involved Japan’s self defense force personnel, assisted by local firefighters, paramedics, and police officers, creating a perimeter around the fake warhead by first checking for radioactivity with geiger counters. They then demonstrated the decontamination of the area by spraying water. They also assisted in the evacuation […]
(Eagle News) — More than 100 passengers were evacuated from a plane upon its arrival at the Iloilo International Airport on Friday. In an advisory, Cebu Pacific said the passengers of flight 5J461 from Manila to Iloilo were evacuated at 11:18 p.m. It did not say what prompted the emergency evacuation. “All passengers are accounted for and are safe. They are being attended to by airport personnel,” it added.
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – The mass evacuation of a volcano-threatened Vanuatu island is running ahead of schedule as a ramshackle armada of civilian boat ferries people to safety, officials said Monday. The entire 11,000 population of Ambae, in the north of the Pacific archipelago, has been ordered to leave after the Manaro Voui volcano rumbled to life and rained rock and ash on villages last week. The evacuation to nearby islands was scheduled for completion […]
AMBAE, Vanuatu (Reuters) — Residents evacuated Vanuatu’s island of Ambae on Sunday (October 1) as volcano Manaro Voui spewed smoke, triggering concerns of an eruption. People were taken from the island to nearby Espiritu Santo island on an Air Vanuatu flight. More than 6000 people have already been moved to emergency shelters on the South Pacific island. Vanuatu, a sprawling cluster of more than 80 islands and 260,000 people, is on the geologically active Pacific […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — At least 2,000 people were evacuated from Paris’ main airport on Saturday and eight flights cancelled after an individual went into a “restricted area” without going through security controls, airport sources said. “We had to evacuate to ‘decontaminate’ the zone, meaning check to make sure no object had been left,” said one of the sources. The evacuations were from a zone in terminal 2F at the Charles de Gaulle airport that passengers access […]
KNYSNA, South Africa (Reuters) – Fires in the countryside east of Cape Town forced evacuations, including in the popular resort town of Knysna, on Wednesday (June 7), local media reported. Over two dozen fires were reported in the area, which are home to dense forests, providing plenty of fuel for the spread of wild fires. A video posted to a social media website showed a building in Knysna burning while flames engulfed the hillsides around […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Hundreds of residents of a small Japanese coastal town took part in an evacuation drill Sunday as fears grow that a North Korean missile could hit the country. The drill in the town of Abu, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) west of Tokyo facing the Sea of Japan, simulated a ballistic missile attack in the surrounding mountains in Yamaguchi prefecture which hosts a major United States Marine Corps air station, a […]
(Eagle News) — Residents of Marawi City continued to evacuate from their homes towards Iligan City in Lanao del Norte, by car or on foot, as fighting rages on between government forces trying to destroy Islamist militants in Marawi City. The IS-inspired Maute group had attacked the peaceful city to reportedly establish an Islamic caliphate in Mindanao, prompting Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law in Mindanao.
OROVILLE, United States (AFP) — A sheriff on Tuesday lifted a mandatory evacuation order in northern California, which had impacted nearly 200,000 people in an area under threat of catastrophic failure at the tallest dam in the United States. The Butte County Sheriff’s Department announced it had reduced the evacuation order to a warning, allowing people in downstream communities from Oroville Dam — 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of Sacramento — to return home. The […]
