Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Increased activity at Vanuatu volcanoes
Disaster authorities in Vanuatu are closely monitoring unprecedented simultaneous increases in activity at three of the country's volcanoes.
The Vanuatu Geohazards Department has put out level 2 alerts for both the northern and southern volcanoes of Ambrym and Tanna with local communities and tourists banned from visiting the rim of these craters.
There is a lesser level 1 alert for a volcano on Ambae island.
Geohazard officer Eslien Garaebiti says increased activity at all volcanoes has never been seen before and says the department is particularly worried about the Tanna and Ambrym craters.
"They are under major level of unrest so they are the ones that are catching our attention at the moment for any increase of activity we would respond or in backing up our monitoring system for those volcanoes."
Vanuatu's volcanoes are among the most accessible in the world and are a major attraction for the tourist industry.
Increased activity at Vanuatu volcanoes
Disaster authorities in Vanuatu are closely monitoring unprecedented simultaneous increases in activity at three of the country's volcanoes.
The Vanuatu Geohazards Department has put out level 2 alerts for both the northern and southern volcanoes of Ambrym and Tanna with local communities and tourists banned from visiting the rim of these craters.
There is a lesser level 1 alert for a volcano on Ambae island.
Geohazard officer Eslien Garaebiti says increased activity at all volcanoes has never been seen before and says the department is particularly worried about the Tanna and Ambrym craters.
"They are under major level of unrest so they are the ones that are catching our attention at the moment for any increase of activity we would respond or in backing up our monitoring system for those volcanoes."
Vanuatu's volcanoes are among the most accessible in the world and are a major attraction for the tourist industry.
Bahraini jet taking part in Yemen war crashes in Saudi Arabia .
A Bahraini F-16 jet taking part in a mostly Gulf Arab military campaign in Yemen has crashed in southern Saudi Arabia, according to a coalition statement on the Saudi state news agency.
The pilot survived after the plane suffered a technical fault and came down in the Jizan region, the statement added, without going into further detail.
Bahrain has taken part in the Saudi-led coalition bombing the Iran-allied Houthi movement for nine months, and scores of ground forces from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have been killed since the start of the conflict.
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