{"id":11928,"date":"2019-12-09T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T05:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-volcano-tourists-injured-and-missing-after-eruption-on-white-island-live"},"modified":"2019-12-09T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:17:00","slug":"new-zealand-volcano-tourists-injured-and-missing-after-eruption-on-white-island-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11928","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand volcano: no survivors on White Island, police believe \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/white-island-new-zealand-volcano-eruption-with-tourist-present\">New Zealand volcano: five dead after White Island eruption<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/how-tourists-became-first-aiders-on-seas-off-white-island-volcano-new-zealand\">How tourists became first-aiders on seas off White Island volcano<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2019-12-09T13:02:03.514Z\">1.02pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>We are going to pause our live coverage for now. Thanks for reading. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/white-island-new-zealand-volcano-eruption-with-tourist-present\">Our latest news wrap is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2019-12-09T12:44:31.394Z\">12.44pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Some academics have been questioning the wisdom in allowing White Island to be a tourism destination.<br \/>Raymond Cas, emeritus professor at Monash University\u2019s school of earth, atmosphere and environment, told the Australian Science Media Centre that he always felt it was too dangerous.<br \/>\u201cWhite Island has been a disaster waiting to happen for many years. Having visited it twice, I have always felt that it was too dangerous to allow the daily tour groups that visit the uninhabited island volcano by boat and helicopter,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cIt has a very active geothermal system with many steaming gas vents and varying numbers of hot water filled crater lakes in the floor of an amphitheater-shaped large crater.\u201d<br \/>Associate professor Derek Wyman, a geoscientist at Sydney University, said he was surprised tourists were allowed so close to the site, given its recent history.<br \/>\u201cI certainly wouldn\u2019t be recommending tourists be approaching a site that has recently been throwing material up 30 metres into the air,\u201d he told SBS News.<br \/>The eruption was \u201crelatively minor\u201d, Professor Wyman said. \u201cNew Zealand sees things like this quite frequently.<br \/>\u201cUsually people don\u2019t die from these kinds of eruptions, but that is likely because they are not usually inappropriately close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-volcano-tourists-injured-and-missing-after-eruption-on-white-island-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five New Zealand volcano: five dead after White Island eruptionHow tourists became first-aiders on seas off White Island volcano 1.02pm GMT We are going to pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,157,56,899,989,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","category-volcanoes","category-white-island-volcano","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11976,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions\/11976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}