AUTHORITIES have declared a state of emergency and ordered approximately 7000
people to evacuate as a potentially deadly volcano rumbles to life.
Google Street View sent a camera into an active volcano in Vanuatu. Picture: GoogleSource:Supplied
A VOLCANO has forced about 7000 people from their homes on Vanuatu’s Ambae island as stones, ash and lava spew from the crater.
The
Pacific nation’s government has declared a state of emergency, and
approved a $2 million fund to provide water, food and shelter as
widespread evacuations are ordered amid fears of a major eruption.The Associated Press reports about 10,000 people live on the island, and villagers close to the volcano have been moved to schools and community halls on the island’s less vulnerable eastern and western regions.
At least 35 evacuation centres have been set up around the country.
The Monaro volcano last erupted in 2005, but a recent increase in activity has prompted authorities to raise the alert to its second-highest level.
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