The eruption of the La Palma volcano that plunged Spain’s Canary Islands into chaos has stopped “after 85 days and 8 hours,” the local government announced. “The eruption is over,” the regional security minister, Julio Perez, said at a press conference on Saturday. Clarifying that the volcano stopped showing vital …
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Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) has confirmed the death of 13 people as result of the eruption of Semeru volcano that began spewing ash on Saturday, blocking the sun completely at one point. The eruption coincided with heavy rains, and saw ash turning into thick mud and obliterating a key …
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A clip on social media has captured people, who live at the foot of Semeru volcano, fleeing in fear ahead of a cloud of black ash descending from the 3,676-meter-tall mountain. The author of the footage is heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) in face of this truly apocalyptic …
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The fissure opened overnight following an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1, the Canary Islands’ volcanology institute, Involcan, said. The new fissure has produced more lava, forcing an additional 500 people to evacuate. The destructive eruption which began on Sunday afternoon has forced a total of 6,000 people to evacuate. …
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On Saturday, a 3.2-magnitude earthquake was reported on the island. It was followed by four tremors on Sunday morning, with the most powerful said to have reached 3.8 magnitude. Fearing an eruption and landslides, local authorities had begun to evacuate people with reduced mobility and farm animals from nearby areas …
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The fireball could be seen shoreside in Azerbaijan, with video footage taken from there showing the scale of the blast. The apparent explosion occurred in the offshore Umid gas field, the second-largest natural gas field in Azerbaijan. Amid rumors of a drilling platform or gas line catching fire, an official …
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In a statement shared on Facebook on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said, “The Taal volcano main crater generated a short-lived dark phreatomagmatic plume one kilometer high with no accompanying volcanic earthquake,” at 3.16pm local time. A phreatomagmatic eruption occurs when magma – that is, molten rock …
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News outlets reported on Saturday that a second volcano had erupted near Goma, just one week after the previous catastrophic eruption which destroyed roads and homes and left thousands of people displaced. “Today the Murara volcano erupted near an uninhabited area of Virunga erupted,” said Congolese government spokesman Patrick Muyaya …
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“The evacuation plan for the city of Goma has been activated,” Communications Minister Patrick Muyaya announced on Saturday as red-hot lava was making its way towards the eastern city of 670,000. Before the official announcement, residents began grabbing their belongings and fleeing in panic, with some crossing into neighboring Rwanda. …
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The volcano began erupting around 7:00 pm local time on Saturday. Footage shared online shows Nyiragongo spitting smoke and fire into the air, turning the night skies red. The Mount is located some 10 km (6 miles) north of Goma, a city of some 670,000 people, which in turn is …
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