Volcanoes an ever-present, if usually distant danger

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JAKARTA: The deadly eruption of a volcano in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty this week left six people confirmed dead and dozens of visitors to the island injured. Rescuers were coping with toxic gases and smaller eruptions as they tried to search for eight missing tourists presumed killed in the disaster.

A famed tourist attraction, the White Island volcano is one of several in New Zealand and thousands that encircle the Pacific. Most lie far from major cities and are watched carefully for signs of danger: normally visitors were permitted to explore the volcano’s crater.

MOUNT ONTAKE, in central Japan, erupted unexpectedly in 2014, killing 47 people who were caught off-guard while resting after climbing the peak. Most were killed by flying rocks. Survivors battled hot air and ash, rocks and debris as they fled the mountain. Seismologists said there had been no warning of such a big eruption.

MOUNT PELEE, long dormant, surprised the residents of Martinique with deadly eruptions in 1902 that killed nearly 30,000 people in mudflows and a flood of lava particles suspended in gases and fires ignited by hot ash that swept over the city of St. Pierre., exploded in 1815 in the biggest known eruption in 1,000 years, one so powerful it, too, altered global weather.

 

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