Submerged Posted on 01/04/2005 8:11:55 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
A volcano has erupted and is spewing lava onto an island in India's Andaman and Nicobar chain that was devastated by last week's earthquake. But officials say there is no cause for alarm, as the lava from the volcano on the uninhabited Barren Islands will flow into the sea.
The volcano has erupted three times in the last decade.
More than 800 people are known to have died in the tremor and tsunami on the islands, with thousands still missing.
Residents of Diglipur, a village on an island near the Barrens, reported seeing smoke and fumes rising from the volcano after the earthquake and tsunami waves.
A senior official of the Geological Survey of India, MM Mukherjee told the BBC that the eruption was minimal.
The volcano has been dormant since it last erupted in 1996, he said.
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A mud volcano in the Baratang Islands in Andaman also erupted after the earthquake, Mr Mukherjee said.
Mud volcanoes are the lesser known relatives of the more common magmatic variety. They are generally not considered to be dangerous.
The authorities have moved the villagers on the island away from the volcano.
The BBC's Subir Bhaumik in the Andamans says the chain of islands have a number of dormant volcanoes.
Mr Mukherjee said some of then could become active in the aftermath of the massive earthquake - the world's strongest for 40 years.
The earthquake and the tsunami submerged a number of islands in the Andamans.
They include Katchall, which shot into the news when thousands of tourists flocked there in the last week of 1999, to catch the first rays of the sun in the new millennium.
This seems like a confused mismash of a previous report that confused the mud volcano with Barren Island.
ping? Does this affect Kev?
Maybe the shift in the tectonic plates is making the Earth ooze liquid, hot, MAGMA, in that part of the world???
No doubt the quake opened up a lava vein.
Well, the old survivor in me comes out once again, "BETTER THEM THAN US!"
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Post 12 claims that this is a false report, although this claim was not verified.
I like the map that you provided
The first pic is not of Barren Island; it's of Anatahan Volcano in the Marianas in the Pacific; it's from early last year.
Whatever it is, it was caused by the GOP's environmental policies and our failure to ratify the Kyoto Accords.
Didn't they say the same thing about Krakatau Volcano ("Krakatoa") in August of 1883?
Are the euro weenies rushing there to cap the volcanoes and stop all that CO2 from getting into the atmosphere?
If not, why not?
Oh the humanity!!
http://www.terradaily.com/2004/041230110931.rut50dbx.html
The Geological Survey of India describes the Baratang crater as a mud volcano covering an area of about 1,200 square metres (1,440 yards), which has been increasing in size from a minor fissure.
Official sources earlier mistakenly sited the volcano on Barren Island, site of a crater traditionally known as the only active volcano in India.
Are you sure? I found it on Google-searching 'andaman volcano'.
It was my desktop bakground for about 6 months.
It's actually from early 2003, not 2004. Not the time stamp on your link is from 2003.
I have no idea what your second pic is of, haven't seen that before.
http://www.margins.wustl.edu/SF/Anatahn/Anatahan2003first.html
One of the scariest sentences in the English language.
Well the officials are not exactly wrong-most of the Andaman islands are small & barely inhabited & this volcano is located on one such island.
Actually, it should provoke an instantaneous, almost autonomic response to grab your keister and head for high ground, especially when coming from 'officials'.
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