10 Jun 2013

Mount Tarawera: it was possible to read a newspaper

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The final southern eruption bursts with an immense roar which is heard as far away as Auckland. The smoke cloud reaches a height of approximately 10km and is visible in Gisborne, nearly 150 kilometres away to the south west. Mount Tarawera is split into a rift running for 17 kilometres.