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The volcano erupted on 9 December 2019 at 2:11 pm local time (01:11 UTC). [3] The ash plume rose 3.7 kilometres (12,000 ft) into the air. [26]It was initially believed that there were about 100 tourists on or near the island when the eruption took place; later, this figure was revised to 47 people who were on the island at the time. [27]
Tour booking agents and managers of a New Zealand island where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people in 2019 were ordered Friday to pay nearly $13 million (US$7.8 million) in fines and reparations.
Never-before-seen footage shows the terrifying moment tourists fled after they realised a volcano was erupting on a New Zealand island. Twenty-two people were killed when the volcano on White ...
New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupō, fills the caldera formed in this eruption. Taupō's most recent major eruption, the Taupō or Hatepe eruption, took place around 232 CE, and is New Zealand's largest eruption since Oruanui. [5] It ejected some 120 km 3 of material (rating 7 on the VEI scale), [6] with around 30 km 3 ejected in just a few ...
Tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on New Zealand’s most active volcano ahead of a 2019 eruption that killed 22 people, a prosecutor said Tuesday. There were 47 ...
Last eruption metres feet Coordinates; Auckland volcanic field: 260: 853: 1421 Bombay Hills (part of the South Auckland volcanic field) 379--550,000 years ago Kārewa / Gannet Island---500,000 years ago Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field: 388: 1273
A U.S. honeymoon couple who survived severe burns when New Zealand’s White Island volcano erupted in 2019 are listed as the first witnesses to testify in a trial of tourism industry operators ...
The ignimbrite eruption(s) were possibly not as forceful as that of the later Hatepe eruption but the total impact of this eruption was somewhat greater. Most of New Zealand was affected by ashfall, with an 18 cm (7.1 in) ash layer left even on the Chatham Islands, 850 km (530 mi) away which included diatoms from erupted lake sediments.