Comoros Volcano Still Spewing Lava

TECTONICS

Members of the French Red Cross unload supplies from a relief plane at Moroni airport, Comoros, 06 December 2005, after it delivered supplies to Volcano victims in the Indian Ocean archipelago. Up to 250,000 people on the island of the Indian Ocean Comoros archipelago have been left without safe drinking water after last week's eruption of the Mount Karthala volcano, the UN said. AFP photo by Ibrahim Yossouf.

Moroni (AFP) Dec 07, 2005
A volcano in the Indian Ocean's Comoro islands was still spewing lava Wednesday almost two weeks after it began erupting, a senior vulcanologist said.

Hamid Soule, who heads the observatory monitoring Mount Karthala, said there was a 15-metre (45-foot) fountain of lava in the volcano's crater, and that although the eruption was weakening, there was still a state of alert.

Just over 175,000 people were still without potable water, and the local Red Crescent Society was continuing to clean ash from open water tanks.

The volcano lies on the country's largest island, Grande Comore, about 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the capital Moroni.

Source: Agence France-Presse

VOLCANOES

Volcano Leaves Up To 250,000 Without Water In Comoros

Moroni (AFP) Dec 02, 2005
Up to 250,000 people on the main island of the Indian Ocean Comoros archipelago have been left without safe drinking water after last week's eruption of the Mount Karthala volcano, the United Nations said Saturday.

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