{"id":195400,"date":"2018-12-27T01:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T06:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=195400"},"modified":"2018-12-27T01:53:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T06:53:40","slug":"indonesia-widens-exclusion-zone-around-island-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/27\/indonesia-widens-exclusion-zone-around-island-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia widens exclusion zone around island volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View of Anak Krakatau from the beach on Rakata in 2011 (Photo<\/a>: Lip Kee\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia on Thursday widened the no-go zone around an island volcano that triggered a tsunami on the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java.<\/p>\n

The volcanology agency raised the Anak Krakatau volcano’s alert status to the second highest and more than doubled the exclusion zone to a 5-kilometre (3-mile) radius.<\/p>\n

The eruption on Saturday evening caused part of the island in the Sunda Strait to collapse into the sea, apparently generating tsunami waves of more than 2 metres (6 1\/2 feet). The government has warned Sunda Strait communities to stay a kilometre (less than a mile) away from the coastline because of the risk of another tsunami.<\/p>\n

The disaster struck without warning, taking people by surprise in a country that regularly suffers landslides, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. No earthquake shook the ground beforehand, and the waves surged inland at night on a holiday weekend while people were enjoying concerts and other beach and resort activities.<\/p>\n

Heavy rains and high seas have hampered the search and effort. Some bodies were found at sea and at least 159 are missing.<\/p>\n

Radar data from satellites, converted into images, shows the Anak Krakatau volcano is dramatically smaller following Saturday’s eruption.<\/p>\n

Satellite photos aren’t available because of cloud cover but radar images from a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency satellite taken before and after the eruption show the volcano’s southwestern flank has disappeared.<\/p>\n

Dave Petley, head of research and innovation at Sheffield University who analyzed similar images from a European Space Agency satellite, said they support the theory that a landslide, most of it undersea, caused the tsunami.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge now is to interpret what might be happening on the volcano, and what might happen next,\u201d he wrote in a blog.<\/p>\n

JASA’s post-eruption image shows concentric waves radiating from the island, which experts say is caused by its ongoing eruptions.<\/p>\n

Anak Krakatau, which means child of Krakatau, is the offspring of the infamous Krakatau volcano that affected global climate with a massive eruption in 1883.<\/p>\n

Anak Krakatau first rose above sea level in 1929, according to Indonesia’s volcanology agency, and has been increasing its land mass since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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