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NIO says, India’s only live volcano in the Andaman, active once again after years


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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.


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"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.