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LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Spain (AFP) — A new fissure emerged in the erupting volcano on Spain’s Canary Islands, belching out more lava and forcing another 500 people to flee, officials said Tuesday. The Cumbre Vieja volcano has forced a total of 6,000 people from their homes and destroyed around 100 properties since it erupted on Sunday afternoon. Emergency services said in a tweet late Monday “a new eruptive fissure has opened” and that the […]
by Desiree Martin LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Spain (AFP) — A surge of lava destroyed around 100 homes on Spain’s Canary Islands a day after a volcano erupted, forcing 5,500 people to leave the area, local authorities said on Monday. The Cumbre Vieja erupted on Sunday afternoon, sending vast plumes of thick black smoke into the sky and belching molten lava that oozed down the mountainside on the island of La Palma. “We haven’t had any […]
It will be six months on Sunday that the volcanic eruption currently mesmerising spectators near Reykjavik first began, making it the longest Iceland has witnessed in more than 50 years. The first lava began spewing out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the evening of March 19 on the Reykjanes peninsula to the southwest of Reykjavik. And the ensuing spectacle — ranging from just a slow trickle of lava at times to more […]
The Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday spewing out lava, ash and a huge column of smoke after days of increased seismic activity, sparking evacuations of people living nearby, authorities said. Cumbre Vieja, which last erupted 50 years ago, straddles a ridge in the south of La Palma island, home to around 80,000 people. “The eruption started in the Cabeza de Vaca zone, in El Paso,” the local government said on […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan issued an alert on Friday after a volcano in the southwest of the country erupted, jettisoning large rocks hundreds of metres away from the crater, Kyodo news agency reported. There were no immediate reports of injuries after the eruption of Mount Otake in Kagoshima prefecture, according to Kyodo. The Japan Meteorological Agency set the alert level at three — on a scale of five, where five triggers evacuation — to […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s most active volcano Mount Merapi erupted Monday, belching a cloud of ash into the air as red lava flowed down its crater. The early morning explosions spewed clouds as far as 3.5 kilometres (2 miles) from the rumbling volcano, blanketing local communities in grey ash. There were no evacuation orders or reports of casualties. Merapi, close to Indonesia’s cultural capital Yogyakarta on Java island, has been particularly active in recent […]
Soil from from Mt. Mayon volcano has been found to host bacteria that has potential antibiotic and anticancer properties, according to researchers from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). The researchers identified a specific bacterial species from the soils of Mt. Mayon that has shown potential antibiotic and anti-colorectal cancer activities. “This specific bacterial isolate identified as Streptomyces sp. A1-08 has shown antibiotic activity against numerous potentially pathogenic microorganisms and anti-colorectal […]
MEDAN, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupted on Wednesday, spewing a massive column of smoke and ash into the sky. The eruption of the volcano in North Sumatra province lasted about 12 minutes, a local geological agency said. “The volcanic material reached 4,500 metres into the air and lasted for quite a long time,” the head of the agency’s Sinabung monitoring post, Armen Putra, told AFP. An image shared by the agency showed […]
(Eagle News) — Over 100 volcanic earthquakes were monitored in Taal in 24 hours. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the 171 earthquakes in the volcano, which remains on alert level 3, included 157 tremors that lasted for one minute to 97 minutes and a low background tremor. A steam plume rising up to 1500 meters was also monitored. Sulfur dioxide emissions were pegged at 6134 tons on July 12. PHIVOLCS said the […]
(Eagle News) — Balitalakayan interviews National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) spokesperson Mark Timbal on Monday, July 5, regarding the evacuation of Taal residents living in high-risk areas around the restive Taal volcano. Timbal said that at least 5,583 individuals, mostly from the barangays of Laurel and Agoncillo, have been evacuated as of Monday. There are 22 evacuation centers set up to house the evacuees. At least 3,670 are in evacuation centers, […]
Taal evacuation, a challenge for physical distancing; NDRMMC sends 1 tent per family to ensure observance of COVID protocols (Eagle News) – Over 5,000 individuals have already been evacuated from high-risk areas around Taal Volcano with the numbers expected to further increase as the volcano showed signs of unrest, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC). In an interview with the Eagle News Service program Balitalakayan, NDRRMC spokesperson Mark Timbal […]
More quakes recorded, rumbling heard in volcano as PHIVOLCS warn of another eruption (Eagle News) – Taal Volcano emitted the highest level of sulfur dioxide emission on Sunday, July 4, with 22,628 tons recorded that day, aside from strong shallow low-frequency quakes, that all indicate another eruption could occur soon. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said that the SO2 gas emissions on Sunday was the “highest level ever recorded in Taal” […]
