ASIA / PACIFIC
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October 16, 2017
“Ring of Fire” volcanoes remind Asia of seismic peril
INCREASED ACTIVITY. Volcanic smoke rises
from Shinmoedake volcano after an eruption on the
border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures in
southwestern Japan. The volcano erupted for the
first time in six years and spread ash in nearby
cities and towns. (Tomoaki Ito/Kyodo News via AP)
By The Associated Press
he horseshoe-shaped string of
active volcanoes bounding the
Pacific Ocean has lived up to its
“Ring of Fire” name in the past month,
sparking mass evacuations in Indonesia
and Vanuatu and now setting parts of
southwestern Japan on edge. The 450 or so
volcanoes that make up the “Ring of Fire”
are an outline of where the massive Pacific
Plate is grinding against other plates that
form the Earth’s crust, creating a
25,000-mile-long zone prone to frequent
earthquakes and eruptions.
Japan
The Shinmoedake volcano in south-
western Japan started erupting this
month for the first time in about six years.
According to Japanese broadcaster TBS,
an ash plume rose 5,580 feet from the
crater and ash fell on cities and towns in
Miyazaki prefecture. Videos showed
students wearing helmets and masks on
their way to an elementary school at the
foot of Shinmoedake.
The Japan Meteorological Agency is
warning that hot ash and gas clouds
known as pyroclastic flows could reach
one mile from the crater. It raised the
volcanic alert level from 2 to 3 on a scale
of 5. Level 3 warns people to not approach
the volcano.
Bali
More than 140,000 people fled Mount
Agung on the Indonesian island of Bali
after its alert status was raised to the
highest level on September 22. Hundreds
of tremors daily from the mountain
indicate magma is rising inside it,
prompting authorities to warn that a
powerful eruption is possible.
The volcano spewed lava and deadly
fast-moving clouds of boiling hot ash, gas,
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and rocks when it last erupted in 1963,
killing more than 1,100 people.
A new eruption is likely to kill fewer
people because officials have imposed a
large no-go zone around the crater, but it
could paralyze tourism, which many
Balinese rely on for their livelihoods.
Indonesia has more than one-tenth of the
world’s active volcanoes and another two
are currently erupting. Sinabung in
northern Sumatra is shooting plumes of
ash high into the atmosphere nearly daily
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and Dukono in the Maluku island chain is
also periodically erupting.
Vanuatu
The entire population of a Pacific island
was evacuated in the space of a few days in
late September and early October to
escape the belching Manaro volcano.
The 11,000 residents of Ambae island
were moved by every boat available to
other islands in Vanuatu, a Pacific
archipelago nation, where they’re living in
schools, churches, and tents. Officials have
since downgraded the volcano’s danger
level but say the population must wait at
least two more weeks to return.
The island’s water supply and crops
have been affected by volcanic ash and acid
rain, but most villages were spared major
damage. Previous eruptions of the volcano
have lasted a month to six weeks.
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