Karkar, Papua New Guinea: seismic activity increases 9 January 2008
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The Papua New Guinea newspaper The National reports today, 9 January 2008, that the Rabaul Volcano Observatory is sending two seismologists to investigate increased activity at Bagiai cone, a pyroclastic cone situated within the Karkar caldera. Over the Christmas and New Year period thermal activity increased and high-frequency earthquakes were recorded, and occasional roaring noises indicative of degassing have been heard by local people. Overall seismicity at Karkar remains low.
The last eruption at Karkar, a forested volcanic island with two nested summit calderas north of mainland Papua New Guinea, was in 1979. The population of the island is around 42,000.
Information
Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program – summary information for Karkar (0501-03=)
Karkar – information from the Papua New Guinea Ministry of Mineral Resources
Papua New Guinea Volcanological Observatory Branch – Rabaul Volcano Observatory
News
RVO records seismic activity on Karkar – The National, 9 January 2008
