Residents evacuated as volcano belches ash and rocks
Wednesday July 30 2008
BRADES, Montserrat, (CMC) – Residents were evacuated from the southernmost part of the occupied safe zone of this British Overseas Territory after the lava dome of the Soufriere Hills volcano collapsed shortly before midnight Monday, sending ash more than 40,000 feet above sea level.
A brief statement issued by the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) said there had been “a partial dome collapse on the west side of the Soufriere Hills Volcano” shortly before 11:27 p.m. local time on Monday without any precursory activity.
Ecuador volcano update
Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008
Ecuador's Reventador volcano saw increased activity on Monday (July 28th 2008) with explosions, ash flow and burning lava in the crater area, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) reports. The volcano, in the Napo province of Ecuador, has been relatively quiet since last July. Now ash is reported as flowing towards the north-west and west.
Indonesia's Ground Zero expanding
A giant stinking lake of volcanic mud has made 50,000 people homeless and swallowed up villages and factories, writes David McNeill and Andre Vltchek
INDONESIANS CALL it Pompeii, or their own Ground Zero, a giant stinking lake of volcanic mud that has made 50,000 people homeless and relentlessly swallowed up villages, factories, schools, mosques and major transport arteries since it began bubbling out of the earth two years ago.
The planet's largest mud volcano spews 125,000 cubic metres of methane-rich sludge a day, enough to fill 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Today, the mud covers nearly 1,600 acres: about the size of Dublin's Phoenix Park, and shows no sign of slowing, despite being dammed by hastily erected 6m (20ft) walls.
Every week, hundreds of refugees from the Sidoarjo district of Java, about 18 miles from Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya, gather to pray for deliverance from what seems an almost biblical disaster.
Magnitude 3.0 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
2008 July 30 01:55:46 UTC
Magnitude 4.7 - GREECE
2008 July 30 05:02:59 UTC
Earthquake hits western Greece
Magnitude 5.3 - OAXACA, MEXICO
2008 July 30 10:23:35 UTC
5.1-magnitude earthquake jolts southern Mexico
Magnitude 4.2 - OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
2008 July 30 13:39:33 UTC
Magnitude 5.6 - SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
2008 July 30 20:15:18 UTC
Magnitude 3.8 - NEVADA
2008 July 30 21:32:09 UTC
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Magnitude 3.6 - PUGET SOUND REGION, WASHINGTON
2008 July 31 05:02:43 UTC
3.6 Quake Recorded Near Port Townsend Wednesday Night
Magnitude 5.1 - OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
2008 July 31 06:31:50 UTC
Magnitude 2.5 - YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
2008 July 31 13:22:13 UTC
2008 July 31 13:22:13 UTC
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Magnitude 4.8 - KYRGYZSTAN
2008 August 01 01:29:30 UTC
Magnitude 5.0 - PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
2008 August 01 02:21:41 UTC
Magnitude 4.6 - POTOSI, BOLIVIA
2008 August 01 02:56:41 UTC
Magnitude 3.5 - OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
2008 August 01 02:30:08 UTC
Magnitude 4.9 - JUJUY, ARGENTINA
2008 August 01 06:18:39 UTC
Magnitude 5.7 - SICHUAN-GANSU BORDER REGION, CHINA
2008 August 01 08:32:43 UTC
China quake area hit by two strong aftershocks
Magnitude 5.5 - MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
2008 August 01 10:35:25 UTC
5.5 magnitude quake hits Calapan City
Magnitude 5.0 - TAIWAN
2008 August 01 18:55:47 UTC
Moderate earthquake strikes Taiwan
Magnitude 4.4 - HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
2008 August 01 19:06:46 UTC
2008 August 01 19:06:46 UTC
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2008 August 02 01:41:19 UTC
Magnitude 5.1 - RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
2008 August 02 04:03:27 UTC
Magnitude 5.0 - FIJI
2008 August 02 15:34:26 UTC
Earthquake hits North
Magnitude 3.9 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
2008 August 02 20:13:06 UTC
3.0 Earthquake Hits Near Moreno Valley
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Magnitude 5.2 - AEGEAN SEA
2008 August 03 00:39:17 UTC
Magnitude 4.1 - AEGEAN SEA
2008 August 03 00:52:55 UTC
Greece rattled by strong earthquake in Aegean
Magnitude 5.1 - RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
2008 August 03 18:07:10 UTC
Magnitude 3.0 - NEVADA
2008 August 03 18:20:35 UTC
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