Live chat replay: Volcanologist on the White Island eruption

Name: Raw: Eruption on White Island
Uploaded: 2013-08-20T14:54:00+12:00
Duration: 44 s
Description: White Island sightseers are being warned another eruption could occur 'at any time with little or no warning'. The warning followed a small eruption at the island at 10.23am today. Bay of Plenty Civil Defence Emergency Management has downgraded the emergency status for the White Island eruption from red to yellow. Courtesy: GNS

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20 Aug, 2013 02:20 AMQuick Read

White Island sightseers are being warned another eruption could occur 'at any time with little or no warning'. The warning followed a small eruption at the island at 10.23am today. Bay of Plenty Civil Defence Emergency Management has downgraded the emergency status for the White Island eruption from red to yellow. Courtesy: GNS

Plumes of ash and steam rose from White Island in a small eruption this morning.

The eruption at the volcano off the coast of the Bay of Plenty lasted for about 10 minutes from 10:23am.

GNS Science volcanologist Craig Miller says the eruption could be part of a sequence "ramping

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