{"id":11945,"date":"2019-12-09T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/white-island-eruption-what-we-know-so-far"},"modified":"2019-12-10T04:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T19:19:02","slug":"white-island-volcano-erupts-what-we-know-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11945","title":{"rendered":"White Island volcano erupts: what we know so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five confirmed dead and more unaccounted for after eruption in New Zealand\u2019s Bay of Plenty<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/new-zealand-eruption-dead-missing-white-island\">Latest: Five people dead and eight missing after volcanic eruption<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Five people have been confirmed dead, a figure that is expected to rise, after a volcanic eruption on New Zealand\u2019s Whakaari\/White Island.<\/p>\n<p>Eight people are missing and 31 are in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said New Zealanders and tourists from Australia, the US, Britain, China and Malaysia were among the missing and injured.<\/p>\n<p>Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has said 24 Australians were on White Island \u2013 13 of who are in hospital and 11 unaccounted for, including up to three of the five confirmed dead<\/p>\n<p>Police and rescue crews have still not been able to access the island after advice from volcano experts. \u201cThe physical environment is unsafe for us to return to the island,\u201d said John Tims, the deputy commissioner of New Zealand police.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in a damaged helicopter that was seen in footage after the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The eruption occurred at about 2.11pm local time, 30 miles off the coast of the Bay of Plenty, on the North Island.<\/p>\n<p>Whakaari\/White Island, New Zealand\u2019s most active cone volcano, is a popular tourist destination and scientific research site. It previously had a short-lived eruption in 2016.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/white-island-eruption-what-we-know-so-far\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five confirmed dead and more unaccounted for after eruption in New Zealand\u2019s Bay of PlentyLatest: Five people dead and eight missing after volcanic eruptionFive people have been confirmed dead, a figure that is expected to rise, after a volcanic erupti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"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":[41,56,989,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/11945","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\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions\/11973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}