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December 31, 2004
More Pictures, Videos, and a Volcano

The Blog Cheese and Crackers has an archived collection with multiple mirrors of many videos taken around the Indian Ocean Shoreline.

Digital Globe has high-resolution QuickBird satellite images that give the "big picture" of the devastation in various places.

Globalecurity.org shows some of the same pictures at lower resolution, but superimposed to give the "before and after" situation.

From The Australian :
India's last active volcano, in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, has erupted in the aftermath of the earthquake that set off tsunamis killing thousands of people, official sources said today.

People have been evacuated from Barren Island since the eruption began on Tuesday night and there are no reports of injury.

Lava was flowing out of the rim of the crater, which towers above the Indian Ocean, the sources said.
[...]
M M Mukherjee of the Geological Survey of India said the volcano presented little real danger.

"The risk is minimised because it is surrounded by the sea so if at all there is a lava flow it will roll off into the sea," he said.

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