'No signs of life' on New Zealand volcano island after disaster 'waiting to happen'

Reuters ^ | December 9, 2019 / 7:59 AM / Updated 21 minutes ago | Charlotte Greenfield

[Red Badger]

WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Tuesday that eight people were missing and presumed dead a day after a volcano erupted off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island, with at least five people confirmed dead and more than 30 injured.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told reporters that aerial reconnaissance flights did not show any signs of life on the volcanic White Island after the eruption that spewed a plume of ash thousands of feet (m) into the air.

“To those who have lost or are missing family and friends, we share in your unfathomable grief in this moment at time and in your sorrow,” she said at a news conference in Whakatane, a town near the tourist attraction.

New Zealanders and tourists from Australia, the United States, Britain, China and Malaysia were among the missing and injured, she said, without giving more details.

[Truthoverpower]

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[Delta 21]

This is the wanna be muslem bitch who feels everybodys pain?????

[cp124]

Stop global warming. Ban volcanoes.

[BBQToadRibs]

“I climbed Mount St Helens 5 years after the blast. You never saw such desolation. Inch tall trees that would be buried by the wind, a few grasshoppers blown in by the wind, and some spiders.”

I believe the blast was 1980, I climbed 3/4 the way circa 2001, it was still pretty young growth stuff, and booty-loads of downed trees. But very cool.