Updated Sunday, July 13, 2008

ANCHORAGE -- A volcano erupted Saturday with little warning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a nearby ranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock.

The Okmok Caldera erupted late Saturday morning, just hours after seismologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory began detecting a series of small tremors.

The explosion flung an ash cloud at least 50,000 feet high, said geophysicist Steve McNutt.

Mount Ruapehu, a volcano in New Zealand, erupted at 8:20 p.m. (local time), without any warning and the government has closed all roads and railways surrounding the volcano including Desert and National Park roads. The eruption lasted for nearly ten minutes and is at this time considered to be a "minor eruption"; so far no state of emergency has been declared.

September 26, 2007 - 6:40AM

New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu volcano has suddenly erupted, spewing mud down a ski slope and forcing police to close nearby roads, officials said.

The minor eruption yesterday evening on central North Island sent two mudflows, or lahars, down the mountain's slopes, including the Whakapapa ski field, local district council spokesman Paul Wheatcroft said.

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October 25 2007 at 12:36PM

Jakarta - A volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island erupted without warning on Thursday, shooting ash about 1 500 metres into the air, an official with the country's volcanology centre said.

Mount Soputan volcano, which lies in North Sulawesi province and had experienced increasing activity since August, erupted at 8.15am (01H15 GMT), spewing columns of ash into the air, said Agus Budianto, chief of volcano monitoring for the West Java-based centre.

"There isn't any lava flow yet but we are still monitoring because the crater is still cloudy," he said, adding that the volcano was only at a Level 1 alert and thus nearby villages had not been ordered to evacuate.

"There is no danger for the people around the volcano," Budianto said, adding that the volcano last erupted in December 2006.

Thursday's eruption came as a surprise as officials said the volcano, which lies about 1 300 kilometres north-east of Jakarta, appeared relatively calm in recent days.

A month after eruptions killed at least 10 people, Montserrat's volcano erupted again today, touching off small avalanches of super-heated rock and gas, but authorities said there was no immediate danger of bigger blasts.

The eruptions occurred without warning, said Bob Webb, head of the British Governor's office. They were small compared with those that killed 10 people on June 25; 9 other people are missing and feared dead.

Nearly half of Montserrat's 11,000 people have fled since the volcano surged to life in July 1995, and Britain said last week that it would poll residents about whether they wanted to abandon the island.

21 Other Mountain Climbers Rescued Near Volcano's Crater
Bacolod City, Aug. 13 (Mabuhay)

Three people died when Mt. Kanlaon erupted without warning, trapping some 24 mountain climbers near its crater, it was reported yesterday.

The volcano, located here in Negros Occidental, spewed ash 1.5 kms. into the air on Aug. 10, more than three years after its last eruption in 1993, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

The explosion caught by surprise some 24 people on the mountain, including 10 Belgians and two Britons on a climbing expedition, who were trapped near the summit of the 2,435-m volcano, said Jomari Vargas, aide of Negros Occ. Gov. Rafael Coscolluela.