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gbaddeley
PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:14 pm    Post subject: Whakaari White Island NZ eruption kills Reply with quote

Jedi

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Location: Melbourne, Australia

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/white-island-eruption-live-updates-death-toll-rises-as-severe-burn-victim-dies.html

Morag, Paul, are you guys OK? Any tremors? Can you see it? It's been on the Australian news every day, and we lost a few citizens.

Glenn
Melbourne, Australia
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Location: New Zealand

Yes we are fine thank-you. It is a tragic thing and on everyone's minds but we are safe. White Island is about 90Km away so not exactly in the neighbourhood but we can see the plume of smoke. I haven't noticed any tremors though. The huge cruise ship which was docked in our port, Tauranga, stayed for an extra day or two since a number of their passengers were on the island. Such a tragedy - our thoughts are with all the families.

It is one of those strange things - it has the reputation of "New Zealand's most active volcano" and yet you somehow get seduced into thinking that it is fairly safe and under control. I guess we never have these things under control. It has certainly tempered my thoughts about going there for a visit. I might be happy with just seeing it from the shoreline or a helicopter fly-by.

Cheers,

Paul.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I hope a very very wide fly-by. Even a chopper is not safe when the eruption produces a pyroclastique cloud, if it is too close...

Our prayers are with the less fortunate.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Location: US: west coast, almost. Otherwise, enroute.

Indeed.
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