Two New Zealand eruptions in two days
From: Gill Jolly <G.Jolly@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Over the last 48 hours, two volcanoes in New Zealand have had minor eruptions. Early on Sunday morning (04.55 NZST on 5 August), White Island had a small explosive eruption. The eruption was captured on one of the webcams located in the crater area.
http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/activity/white-island/
http://geonet-shakennotstirred.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/white-island-eruption-video.html
The volcanic alert level was raised to 2 and aviation colour code to orange.
Less than 48 hours later, Tongariro had a phreatic eruption at 23.50 on 6 August. The eruption lasted a couple of minutes and light ashfall was deposited to the north east of the volcano. This followed an increase in seismic activity over the previous 3 weeks.
http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/activity/tongariro/
https://www.facebook.com/#!/geonetnz
The volcanic alert level was raised to 2 and aviation colour code to red, although the latter was reduced to orange after 12 hours.
Dr Gill Jolly
Head of Volcanology Department
GNS Science
Wairakei Research Centre
Taupo
New Zealand
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