My OperaRed Sea Volcano Erupts
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 7:16:52 AM
Sunday evening, 30 September 2007, a volcanic eruption caused a landslide that collapsed the western part of the Yemeni Jabal al-Tair island in the Red Sea. The island contains a military garrison that is used for naval control and observation because of the large number of cargo ships that pass by, and seven Yemeni soldiers were killed - around 50 Yemeni soldiers were evacuated from the island shortly before the eruption. There had been considerable seismic activity around the island ahead of the eruption. Eruptions continued Monday.
The island, some 140 km off the Yemen coast, is about 3 km long and has been used as a military base since 1996 after a longstanding territorial dispute with Eritrea over the ownership of a series of islands in the Red Sea.
Jabal al-Tair — meaning "Bird Mountain" — is one of a number of volcanos at the southern end of the Red Sea in the narrows between Yemen and Eritrea. The island last saw an explosive eruption in 1883. The basaltic stratovolcano Jabal rises from seabed some 1,200 m below the surface of the Red Sea, continuing for 244 m above the surface up to the summit of the crater. The volcano was considered "recently extinct" as of 1982. It is the northernmost known Holocene volcano in the Red Sea, with one central vent, Jebel Duchan. The Holocene is the name given to the last ~10000 years of the Earth's history. The volcano lies in the volcanic and tectonically active region at the divergent boundary between the African Plate and the Arabian Plate. Some geologists consider the African Plate as two separate plates, namely the Nubian Plate and the Somalian Plate separated by the Great African Rift.
PS: More about the volcano at
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0201-01=
where it is named Jebel at Tair - Writing Arabic names by use of the latin alphabet often causes problem. This is of course also true for Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Greek and so on.
The island, some 140 km off the Yemen coast, is about 3 km long and has been used as a military base since 1996 after a longstanding territorial dispute with Eritrea over the ownership of a series of islands in the Red Sea.Jabal al-Tair — meaning "Bird Mountain" — is one of a number of volcanos at the southern end of the Red Sea in the narrows between Yemen and Eritrea. The island last saw an explosive eruption in 1883. The basaltic stratovolcano Jabal rises from seabed some 1,200 m below the surface of the Red Sea, continuing for 244 m above the surface up to the summit of the crater. The volcano was considered "recently extinct" as of 1982. It is the northernmost known Holocene volcano in the Red Sea, with one central vent, Jebel Duchan. The Holocene is the name given to the last ~10000 years of the Earth's history. The volcano lies in the volcanic and tectonically active region at the divergent boundary between the African Plate and the Arabian Plate. Some geologists consider the African Plate as two separate plates, namely the Nubian Plate and the Somalian Plate separated by the Great African Rift.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7021596.stm
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_re_mi_ea/yemen_volcano
- http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008686056
- http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-19936866.htm
- http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSJrmeurdC1C4OfFyrFJh74ftaNQD8S0AP100
- http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-01-voa20.cfm
- http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL01042408.html
- http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44608/story.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabal_al-Tair_island
PS: More about the volcano at
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0201-01=
where it is named Jebel at Tair - Writing Arabic names by use of the latin alphabet often causes problem. This is of course also true for Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Greek and so on.
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