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| Indonesia volcano eruption: Six dead on Palue. | |
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| Audi-Tek | 10 Aug 2013, 04:45 PM Post #1 |
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Indonesia volcano eruption: Six dead on Palue.![]() The eruption could be seen from the Maurole district of East Nusa Tenggara province Six people have been killed in a volcanic eruption on a tiny island in Indonesia, officials have said. Mount Rokatenda, on the island of Palue some 2,000km (1,250 miles) east of Jakarta, spewed ash and rocks 2km into the air. Disaster officials said hot ash covered a nearby beach, leaving four adults and two children dead. The volcano had been rumbling since late last year, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. A 3km exclusion zone was set up after an eruption last October. But Surono, a spokesman from Indonesia's volcanology agency, said many villagers had become accustomed to the volcanic activity and ignored the mandatory evacuation order. Palue has a population of some 10,000 people. ![]() Mr Surono said the latest eruption had begun at 04:27 on Saturday (20:27 GMT Friday) and lasted for nearly four hours. He urged villagers to stay clear of the affected area, saying it was difficult to predict if there would be further eruptions. Palue is about 4km wide and lies a short distance off the north coast of Flores, the main island in East Nusa Tenggara province. The ACT Alliance humanitarian group reported in April that eruptions in Palue in October and again in March this year had forced hundreds of people from their villages, with significant losses of income in farming, trade and fishing. Much of the Indonesian archipelago lies on the Pacific "ring of fire", an area prone to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. At least 350 people died and 250,000 were displaced when Mount Merapi in central Java erupted in 2010. Source ..........
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| skibboy | 10 Aug 2013, 11:35 PM Post #2 |
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10 AUGUST 2013 Five dead in Indonesian volcanic eruption AFP - A volcano erupted in central Indonesia on Saturday, spewing hot ash and rocks high into the air and killing five people, an official said. Mount Rokatenda, on the tiny island of Palue, sent fast-moving red-hot ash onto a nearby beach, leaving three adults and two children dead, said vulcanology centre head Surono. Rokatenda has been on high alert since October, with authorities banning people from any activities within three kilometres (1.9 miles) from the crater on the island of around 7,000 inhabitants. Surono, speaking from Bandung city on Java island, said his staff at the scene had reported the five people had been killed within the exclusion zone. It was not clear what the victims had been doing in the restricted area when it erupted, he said. "We have found the bodies of the adults, but we are still looking for the children, and it is difficult because the area is still very hot," Surono, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP. The volcano began erupting at 04:27 am (2027 GMT Friday) and it continued for nearly four hours, said Surono. He said volcanic ash travelled as far as 2,000 metres (6,560 feet) from the crater. The Indonesian archipelago has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines known as the "Ring of Fire" between the Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010. Source:
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| skibboy | 12 Aug 2013, 12:08 AM Post #3 |
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11 AUGUST 2013 Indonesia evacuates islanders as volcano erupts ![]() Mount Rokatenda volcano spews a huge column of hot ash during an eruption on August 10, 2013. ![]() This photo taken on August 11, 2013 with a camera phone shows evacuees arriving at Maumere after being rescued from the disaster area where Mount Rokatenda volcano is erupting on Palue island. ![]() This photo taken on August 10, 2013 from the Maurole district of East Nusa Tenggara province shows the Mount Rokatenda volcano spewing a huge column of hot ash during an eruption. AFP - Indonesian rescuers battled Sunday to evacuate thousands from an island where a volcanic eruption killed six people the previous day, with the volcano still spewing out rocks and ash at "dangerous levels". Mount Rokatenda, on tiny Palue island in East Nusa Tenggara province, was sending large clouds of red-hot ash up to 600 metres (almost 2,000 feet) into the air. "The activity... remains high and at dangerous levels. There are no signs it will stop erupting any time soon," Surono, an official from the state vulcanology agency, told AFP. On Saturday the volcano threw rocks and ash 1.2 miles into the sky and sent torrents of molten lava onto a beach, killing three adults and three children as they slept. Activity had been increasing at Rokatenda, one of numerous active volcanoes in the vast Indonesian archipelago, since October and there had been a series of small eruptions before Saturday. A rescue team was seeking to evacuate some 2,000 people inside a three-kilometre exclusion zone and a group of "traumatised" inhabitants had already left the island, Eduardus Desa Pante, a local disaster management agency official told AFP. Bakri Kari, one of the team, said rescue efforts were difficult as roads were blocked by ash and people were reluctant to leave their homes. "It was tough trudging through hot ground covered in ash that was 10 to 20 centimetres thick," he told AFP. "Everything was burnt by the lava. "People were scared and many were crying. They wanted to get away from the volcano but at the same time they were reluctant to leave their livestock and homes." As the volcano began to rumble into life last year, the authorities set up the exclusion zone, with people living inside urged to leave and all activities within the area banned. Pante said 127 people had already been sent by motor boat to a temporary shelter on Flores island, south of Palue. "They are traumatised by yesterday's eruption," Pante said, adding he hoped 80 more people waiting at the port could be evacuated on Sunday. Rescuers had recovered the bodies of the adults killed on the beach but the children had still not been found, he said. Some 2,000 people had already been evacuated to Flores before Saturday's eruption, leaving around 8,000 people still on the island. Indonesia has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines known as the "Ring of Fire" between the Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010 Source:
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