Ruapehu's crater lake heating up, tremors continue
RNZ A two kilometre exclusion zone is in place around the Mount Ruapehu crater lake - Te Wai a-moe - after GeoNet raised its volcanic alert level. Mount Ruapehu’s crater lake – Te Wai ā-moe – is heating up and is now at 43C. The Volcanic Alert Level has also been raised to Level 2 but duty volcanologist Michael Rosenberg told Stuff the signs, and increase to alert levels, were certainly “not an indication that an eruption was on its way.” In a statement on Monday GNS Science said during a gas monitoring flight last week, the lake was a uniform grey colour indicating it was well-...
Source: stuff.co.nz