Posted on 09/30/2007 8:30:23 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace
TORONTO: A volcano has erupted on a tiny island off the coast of Yemen, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air, a Canadian naval vessel near the island in the Red Sea reported. The Yemeni government asked NATO to assist in searching for survivors.
Ken Allan, a Navy Public Affairs with the Canadian Armed Forces, said a NATO fleet just outside the territorial waters of the island Jazirt Atta-Ir reported seeing a "catastrophic volcanic eruption" at 7 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) Sunday. The 2-mile-long (3-kilometer-long) island is about 70 miles (115 kilometers) off the coast of Yemen.
"At this time, the entire island is aglow with lava and magma as it pours down into the sea. We do not have confirmation of how many people were on this island at the time of the eruption," Allan said in an e-mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
Canadian navy ship HMCS Toronto is conducting a search-and-rescue operation to find nine people believed at sea after a volcanic eruption on Jazirt Atta-Ir island, about 140 kilometres off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/09/30/4539828-cp.html
One better; it’s the one surrounded by water.
Same here, there are probably several transliterations of the island name and the one in the article isn’t a common one...my guess anyway. I am trying to find a master list of all those islands and go from there.
:’(
I did a search but couldn’t pull it up.
Google Earth is not coughing the island up.
Hey guys, Pray to Allah...want he help you?
We all know it’s Bush’s fault.
It needs some paint. They could probably get a really good deal at China right now.
go here:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Image_Gallery/Real-time_Images/index.htm?l=en
click “full disc under Indian ocean.....it will then go to sat view
then click....color....IR.....sector 5....play>......faster/slower
10-1-07 0300 is latest update as of now....cool sat site, nonetheless
Excuse me, this is Gore’s fault. He didn’t tell us it was going to happen. Just that the artic was going to melt in 23 years.
Said they don't know how many people were on the tiny Island.
A volcanic island. ^_^
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