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volcano (Japan): large explosion damages cars
A moderately large vulcanian explosion occurred this morning, producing significant fallout of lapilli and small bombs in several kilometers distance. Cars parked at the Arimura Lava observatory observation point to the south of the volcano were damages and windshields broken, at a distance of about 4 km.
There are no reports of injuries to people.
The
ash plume from the eruption rose to approx. 12,000 ft (3.6 km)
elevation, i.e. about 2.5 km km height. In itself, today's explosion
is not even among the largest that have occurred in the past months,
but the volcano clearly continues to be in a state of elevated
activity when seen on a long-term average.
NZ:
Quake at midnight near Seddon
Central New Zealand was shaken by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake just after midnight.
GeoNet
said the quake, at 12.04am, was centred 16km deep and located 35km
northeast of Seddon. The magnitude was revised downwards from 5.3
originally.
GeoNet
said several aftershocks of about magnitude 3.0 had been felt since
then.
A
small slip on State Highway One south of Seddon has since been
cleared.
Police
and the Fire Service said there have been no other reports of damage.
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