Tag: Volcano

• Wednesday, June 13th 2018 - 09:31 UTC

  Start Fund announces financial support for Guatemala

  

  Following the recent Fuego Volcano tragedy in Guatemala, the Start Fund has agreed to provide £182,760 (1.8 million quetzals) to international humanitarian organisations, reported the UK embassy in Guatemala City..

• Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 05:06 UTC

  South Chile volcano erupts: evacuation, flights cancelled, army moves in

  

  Southern Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted on Wednesday for the first time in nearly half a century, spewing a giant funnel of ash high into the sky and prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency. Officials ordered an evacuation for a 20-kilometer radius around the volcano and the Interior ministry rushed in the army to temporarily take control of the province of Llanquihue and the town of Puerto Octay.

• Monday, September 9th 2013 - 01:34 UTC

  World’s largest volcano has been discovered on the Pacific Ocean floor

  

  The world's largest volcano has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The volcano, 1,600 kilometres east of Japan and called the Tamu Massif, is the size of the British Isles. It covers 308,000 square kilometres, rising around 3.54 km above the bottom of the seabed and delving 29 km into the Earth's crust.

• Friday, August 10th 2012 - 07:16 UTC

  Volcanic pumice mass, size of Belgium floating off the coast of New Zealand

  

  A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast of New Zealand, reports the Auckland media. The stretch of golf-ball-size pumice rocks was first spotted this week by a New Zealand air force plane about 1,000 kilometres northwest of Auckland.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 00:11 UTC

  Ecuadorean volcano spews red-hot rock and ash; populations abandon risk area

  

  Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano (‘throat of fire’ in indigenous Quechua language) spewed red-hot rock and ash Tuesday as officials upgraded their eruption warning level to orange and some at-risk communities began evacuations.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 03:38 UTC

  BAS James Clark Ross discovers underwater volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands

  

  Scientists who have discovered previously unknown underwater volcanoes around the remote South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean say the research is important to help understand what happens when volcanoes erupt or collapse underwater.

• Sunday, June 5th 2011 - 12:20 UTC

  South Chile volcano eruption prompts evacuation; covers Argentine province with ash

  

  Southern Chile's Puyehue volcano erupted on Saturday for the first time in half a century prompting evacuation orders for 3,500 people and turning into dark the Argentine Patagonian resort of San Carlos de Bariloche, 100 kilometres to the east as it was covered with ash.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2010 - 21:28 UTC

  Fresh Volcanic Ash Cloud Delay Hundreds of Flights in Scotland and Ireland

  

  Thousands of passengers are facing long delays after airports in Scotland and Ireland closed because of a fresh cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland. Flights have been grounded in Glasgow, Prestwick and Derry since 0700 BST, while the airspace over Dublin, Belfast and Edinburgh has also since closed.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2010 - 18:03 UTC

  IATA Praises European Relief Measures for Airlines Affected by Volcanic Ash Plume

  

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) openly supported the announcement by the European Commission of a comprehensive program to provide relief to the air transport sector in the aftermath of extra-ordinary airspace closures resulting from the ash plume of an Icelandic volcano.

• Saturday, April 24th 2010 - 07:28 UTC

  Volcanic Ash Cloud Costs European Tourism 2.3 Billion USD Losses

  

  Air traffic disruptions caused by the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland inflicted losses on the European tourism sector worth 2.3 billion dollars (1.7 billion Euros), the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimated Friday.