Yesterday was a regular Ramadan afternoon and I was expecting to eat dinner at the centre as usual. But then my bestest friend in the whole wide world right now invited me to go along to the Movenpick for dinner with her husband -- her shout! I said no a few times but eventually gave in because I figured I'll pay her back one day soon when I have some money again. During the trip by taxi to the Movenpick Hotel I noticed a vertical cloud in the sky line and mentioned to my friends I thought it was strange. I never expected it was a cloud from a volcanic eruption until one of my friends emailed me today to ask me if I'd heard about the eruption in Yemen. It turns out the eruption was on an island in the Red Sea between Sudan and Yemen at a totally safe distance from Sana'a.
By the way Yemen has numerous volcanoes, except up until yesterday they were all considered extinct I think . There's also some hot springs in a few places which are hot due to volcanic heating.
Below are the news stories from Yahoo in English and from Saba news in Arabic.
I also would like to mention that I've added a podcast and a new blog. You can get all the details at http://ArabicNewsWithAudio.blogspot.com. The idea being to add a current newspaper article every week with an accompanying Podcast with the audio of one of the teachers from YLC reading the article in Arabic. I think it will be a really useful resource for learners.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_re_mi_ea/yemen_volcano
http://www.sabanews.net/ar/news138885.htm
By the way Yemen has numerous volcanoes, except up until yesterday they were all considered extinct I think . There's also some hot springs in a few places which are hot due to volcanic heating.
Below are the news stories from Yahoo in English and from Saba news in Arabic.
I also would like to mention that I've added a podcast and a new blog. You can get all the details at http://ArabicNewsWithAudio.blogspot.com. The idea being to add a current newspaper article every week with an accompanying Podcast with the audio of one of the teachers from YLC reading the article in Arabic. I think it will be a really useful resource for learners.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_re_mi_ea/yemen_volcano
SAN'A, Yemen - A volcanic explosion rocked a tiny Yemeni island in the Red Sea, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air and forcing Yemeni authorities to evacuate a military base. NATO and Yemeni ships Monday were searching for eight missing soldiers.
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The eruption Sunday evening caused a landslide that collapsed the western part of Jabal al-Tair island, the Yemeni news agency SABA reported. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
The tiny oval island, about two miles wide, lacks a settled population but includes military installations used for naval control and observation because large cargo ships pass nearby.
It was not clear how many people were stationed on the island, and SABA reported that Yemeni ships had evacuated all personnel and were searching for eight missing military personnel.
A NATO fleet passing nearby reported seeing a "catastrophic volcanic eruption" at 7 p.m. local time Sunday on the island, about 70 miles off the Yemeni coast, said Ken Allan, a Navy Public Affairs with the Canadian Armed Forces.
"At this time, the entire island is aglow with lava and magma as it pours down into the sea," Allan said in an e-mail Sunday evening. "The lava is spewing hundreds of feet into the air, with the volcanic ash also (rising) a thousand feet in the air."
The NATO fleet was sailing toward the Suez Canal when it spotted the eruption. The government of Yemen asked NATO to assist in the search for survivors and the closet ship, the HMCS Toronto, was heading toward the island. The Canadian Armed Forces said they are trying to locate nine people believed to be at sea after the Yemen coast guard requested help. It is unclear why there was a discrepancy with the SABA report on the number of missing.
Jabal al-Tair — meaning "Bird Mountain" — is one of a number of volcanos at the southern end of the Red Sea in the narrows betwen Yemen and Sudan. The island last saw an explosive eruption in 1883, according to the Washington-based Smithsonian Institute's Global Volcanism Program.
Over the past two weeks, the area around the island had seen light earthquakes between magnitude 2-3.6, with three larger ones Sunday afternoon reaching magnitude 4.3, the Yemeni Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources said, according to SABA. Fishermen and other boats had been warned from approaching the area, it said.
Yemen is a poor tribal Sunni Muslim country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
http://www.sabanews.net/ar/news138885.htm
الحمم البركانية تغمر جزيرة جبل الطير
الحمم البركانية تطمر جزيرة جبل الطير والعثور على ثلاث جثث وناج واحد
[01/أكتوبر/2007] صنعاء – سبانت : رضوان فارع
قالت مصادر في إدارة عمليات القاعدة البحرية بالحديدة انه تم العثور على ثلاث جثث وناج واحد من اصل ثمانية مفقودين في جزيرة جبل الطير اثر الانفجار البركاني في الجزيرة.
وأكد عبالباري شسمان في تصريح لـ سبانت ان الناجي حالته جيدة وهو في طريقة على متن زورق الى المستشفى العسكري في الحديدة.
وقال شمسان انه تم اخلاء 47 شخصاً من الجزيرة حالة احدهم خطيرة والباقين حالتهم جيدة ويتلقون العلاج في المستشفى العسكري بالمدينة.
وأوضح شمسان" ان جزيرة جبل الطير طمرت بالكامل اثر انفجار بركاني حاصل فيها وان فرق الإنقاذ تقوم بالبحث عن المفقودين .
وكانت جزيرة جبل الطير قد تعرضت لنشاط زلزالي صاحبة بركان يوم امس الاحد .
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