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Whakaari / White Island and the sea stacks that form Club Rocks and Volckner Rocks are the emergent summits of a larger, 16 by 18 kilometres (9.9 by 11.2 mi), submarine volcano. It is known as White Island Volcano and has a total volume of 78 km 3 (19 cu mi). The bathymetry surrounding the emergent summit of Whakaari / White Island consists of ...
Unknown eruption near equator, magnitude roughly half Tambora: Emission of sulfur dioxide around the amount of the 1815 Tambora eruption (ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland). [24] 1808: Major eruptions in Urzelina, Azores (Urzelina eruption, fissure vent), Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Kamchatka Peninsula, [25] and Taal Volcano, Philippines. [26]
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]
Survivors of one of New Zealand’s worst natural disasters have described the searing pain of being lashed by burning sand, ash and rocks during a volcanic eruption on Whakaari or White Island in ...
New Zealand judge pulls up tour operator for ‘astonishing failures’ related to safety audits
The management company of White Island, where a volcano eruption killed 22 people, mostly tourists, in 2019, was found guilty of one charge of breaching health and safety law in a New Zealand ...
A helicopter pilot said in court on Thursday he and two of his passengers had escaped serious injury by jumping into the ocean when a New Zealand volcano erupted in 2019, killing 22. Another two ...
The eruption has been calculated to have been 1,500 km 3 (360 cu mi) dense-rock equivalent (DRE) and modelled to have produced a Plinian column approximately 45 km (28 mi) high. [9] At the Chatham Islands which is more than 900 kilometres (560 mi) from the Whakamaru Caldera the deposits are up to 30 cm (12 in) thick.