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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]
The island is New Zealand's most active cone volcano, and has been built up by continuous volcanic activity over the past 150,000 years. [4] The nearest mainland towns are Whakatāne and Tauranga . The island has been in a nearly continuous stage of releasing volcanic gas at least since it was sighted by James Cook in 1769.
Sentencing for the tour booking agents and managers of an island in New Zealand where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people, mostly tourists, in 2019 began on Monday, with the prosecutor warning ...
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 ...
The White Island volcano is one of New Zealand’s most active. The White Island volcano’s last fatal eruption was in 1914, when it killed 12 sulphur miners. There was a short-lived eruption in ...
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 ...
Law is not alone worrying about his future in Whakatane, a picturesque town of 35,000 of the shore of the Bay of Plenty that is the main access point to the volcanic island. Deadly eruption hits ...
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