Feb 20, 2017: It is reliably reported that India’s only live volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has once again started spewing ash, the researchers at Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) said on Feb 18, Saturday. The Barren Island volcano started showing activity in the year 1991 after being dormant for over 150 years.
"The only live volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar islands is erupting once again. The Barren Island volcano, located 140-km north-east of Port Blair, dormant for more than 150 years, started erupting in 1991 and has since then shown intermittent activity," CSIR-NIO said in a statement here.
A team of scientists led by Abhay Mudholkar, from CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO) in Goa reported that the volcano is active and spewing smoke and lava once again. "On the afternoon of January 23, 2017, the scientific team on board CSIR-NIO’s research ship R V Sindhu Sankalp was busy collecting sea floor samples in the Andaman Basin near the volcano when it suddenly started spewing ash," the NIO said.