The latest eruption has spread concern that the long-dormant volcano builds up to something more, but Surono, the head of the Indonesian volcano alert center that will one name, said he can not make predictions and will continue to monitor the activity of a station 8 km from the base of Mount Sinabung.

Small eruptions happen again, “he said, but the fog around the crater prevented observers from knowing the height of the last pen, which appeared about 6:00 Friday evening.

Despite the danger, some residents refused to leave their homes, according to reports from Associated Press. One villager said he had abandoned the villages to protect the few miles from the mouth of the crater against the looters. Those who had just returned after a few days in evacuation centers were very close reluctant to uproot again.

Others were concerned about the eruption that shook the houses and trees along the slopes of the volcano. But Surono said that despite recent activity Sinabung, it is not as dangerous as active volcanoes on the main island of Java.

“Currently, it is fair to volcanic ash, not casting as Merapi volcano, he said, referring to the volcano in central Java that regularly spits smoke and debris. “I fear that if people panic and run, it will cause more accidents.”

First people started to evacuate their homes when Mount Sinabung started spewing clouds of ash on August 26, shocking many villagers and scientists who had never seen a glance of the volcano.

Here August 30, the number of evacuees has reached 30,000 and the Red Cross told a local newspaper that several evacuation camps have faced health problems.

According to reports in the Jakarta Globe, an English language daily, 486 soldiers and 378 policemen were deployed to help distribute aid earlier efforts, and the Ministry of Health has distributed masks and food .

“We will continue to monitor the volcano to understand where the activity is ongoing and we will give technical communication with local communities,” Surono said, warning that people living within a radius of 6 km from the volcano will be prevented from returning to their homes until the situation improves.

Indonesia lies on a series of fault lines running through Southeast Asia to Japan known as the Ring of fire because of the frequency of seismic activity. The most famous eruption occurred in 1883 when Mount Krakatoa blew its top, climate change around the world in one of the worst volcanic explosions.

“The good news about Count is that he has ceased to decline, perhaps even a little faster than expected,” Bill Read, director of the National Hurricane Center said in a news conference by phone. “It may even drop below hurricane strength on the time spent in New England tonight night.”

Earl’s maximum sustained winds dropped this morning at 105 miles per hour to 85 miles per hour – making it a Category 1 hurricane – as the storm, more than 300 miles of Massachusetts, steamed in the waters more cooler off the mid Atlantic coast.

Forecasters National Weather Service in Taunton predicted this morning that the count would be a Category 1 hurricane when it churns 50-100 miles miles south of Nantucket and evening.

Forecasters said the Massachusetts Nantucket and outer Cape Cod were the only two areas where a brief period of wind gusts of hurricane force of just over 74 miles per hour were expected.

The rest of the southeast coast of Massachusetts may see wind gusts of tropical storm of 50-70 miles per hour.

“The situation is better,” said weather service meteorologist Kim Buttrick. “It seems that it will come in lower than we thought yesterday.

Buttrick said that the service continues to be Hurricane warnings as the hurricane could “wobble” in the west and have a greater impact than currently expected.

“It’s a hurricane and it has its own life,” she said. “We want to err on the side of caution.”

By late morning, forecasters reduced the size of the hurricane warning area. The area, which on Thursday covered the entire south coast of the state, including Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, was reduced to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and Woods Hole areas at Sagamore Beach. A tropical storm warning was extended from Hull to the New Hampshire border has been reduced to Sagamore Beach in Hull.

State and local officials have been preparing for several days for the storm and this morning at the White House announced that President Obama had declared an emergency in the state, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local effort.

Governor Deval Patrick said this afternoon during a news conference that the state continues to prepare for the storm very seriously. Among other measures, he said, the National Guard was deployed additional state troopers on duty, search and rescue teams are clearing up, and water and other supplies have been pre-positioned. He also said that utilities have placed more than 1,000 repair crews in the area to be treated slaughtered son.

The plans have not changed, he said, “because it’s Mother Nature and she changes her mind quickly. I think probably the biggest difference is that if it remains a Category 1, the recovery and cleanup is even faster. ”

He said it was possible the cleaning would be so fast that it could save some of this holiday weekend for the Cape and Islands businesses.

During a keynote address at WWDC today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the next revision of the company’s iconic iPhone hardware. Dubbed “iPhone 4,” Jobs called the new iPhone model “the biggest leap since the original iPhone.” He said that the new device has over 100 new features, but he detailed just eight of them during his presentation.

Physically, the new iPhone resembles the prototypes that were leaked earlier by Gizmodo and Tinh tế. In particular, Jobs noted that it was 9.3mm thick, or 24 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS. Jobs called the iPhone 4 the “thinnest smartphone ever.

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