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There's another volcano erupting in the region -- Bagana, on Bougainville island (Ulawun is on New Britain Island).
That's complex, too, but for a different reason: sure, Bagana caused severe enough problems for the government there to ask for help from Papua New Guinea (with whom Bougainville fought a terrible civil war and currently is having tense independence negotiations with), but the world response was IMO out of proportion. Just as one example, we sent in the Marines.
I suspect, as mentioned in that linked blog post/updates page above, that the international response might have more to do with geopolitics, given Bougainville's importance in WWII. But I'm sure not going to speculate on it!
There will be updates there, of course, for any volcano-related info that comes my way. And please, everyone, do share here on the thread, anything you might see on these two or any other volcanoes.
That's complex, too, but for a different reason: sure, Bagana caused severe enough problems for the government there to ask for help from Papua New Guinea (with whom Bougainville fought a terrible civil war and currently is having tense independence negotiations with), but the world response was IMO out of proportion. Just as one example, we sent in the Marines.
I suspect, as mentioned in that linked blog post/updates page above, that the international response might have more to do with geopolitics, given Bougainville's importance in WWII. But I'm sure not going to speculate on it!
There will be updates there, of course, for any volcano-related info that comes my way. And please, everyone, do share here on the thread, anything you might see on these two or any other volcanoes.