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To: SusiDiamond who wrote (2083)	11/27/2004 9:08:29 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 361222

PNG evacuating island after volcanic eruption destroys food Sat Nov 27,12:57 PM ET Science - AFP PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AFP) - Papua New Guinea was to start evacuating an entire island after a volcanic eruption destroyed the 9,000 inhabitants' supply of food, officials said. The Manam islanders are mainly subsistence farmers and fishermen whose small farming plots have been covered with falling ash from the island's erupting volcano, also called Manam, a government vulcanologist told AFP. The eruption began last month, but resumed with a vengeance last Monday, sending plumes of ash up to 10 kilometres (six miles) above the volcano's summit and raining down on surrounding areas. Nine people were injured Thursday when around 20 houses collapsed under the weight of ash and government officials have decided to relocate the entire island population to the mainland, said vulcanologist Herman Patia, speaking by telephone from the regional city of Rabaul. "According to reports they are evacuating the 9,000 people beginning today," said Patia, chief vulcanologist at the Rabaul Volcano Observatory, which has sent an observer to Manam island to monitor the eruption. "They will all be evacuated from the island because all their food gardens, their sources of food, they have all been damaged by the ash fall. Definitely there will be a shortage of food." It is not the first time the island has been evacuated, as its long history of volcanic eruptions has required similar measures in the past but the fertile soil has always lured the islanders back. Normally only accessible by boat, Manam is famous for being an almost perfect cone and the island off PNG's northern coast is an almost perfect circle. But it is regarded as a comparatively "high-risk" volcano in the seismically active country. The government has identified land near the mainland settlement of Bogia, just north of Madang on the northern mainland coast and around 15 kilometres (10 miles) from the island, where the islanders will be relocated. Although a temporary relocation it may well ultimately turn into a second home due to the repeated eruptions of the 1,800 metre (5,950 foot) high volcano, Patia said. Manam last erupted in 1996, when a lava flow hit a village and killed several people. The latest eruption began on October 24, then resumed last Monday and again picked up late on Friday, with explosions from the volcano sending ash again raining down on the northwest of the island. No reports had been received of any deaths, Patia said, but seismic information indicated that the volcano was still very active and a new eruption could happen at any time. "Seismic activity is at moderate to moderate-high level and volcanic tremors are still being recorded continuously," he said. "This indicates to us that inside the volcano it is still very active. Another build-up in activity would happen a short time." PNG contains a large number of volcanoes, particularly in its offshore islands, as it lies at the junction of two tectonic plates on the earth's surface.

To: SusiDiamond who wrote (2083)	11/27/2004 9:40:07 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361222

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