Apparently Papua New Guinea is experiencing a lot of seismic activity at the moment. I'm not sure whether this is standard for the area, but as an island situated on the meeting point of two major tectonic plates, the Pacific and the Australian, then it's perhaps not a surprise!
Here is a fantastic video of the eruption of Mount Tavurvur volcano on August 29th, 2014, captured by Phil McNamara. The camera was about 4.5km (2.5miles) away from the explosion and the shockwave can clearly be seen, even blowing away the clouds!
As far as I can tell everyone living locally received plenty of warning and there were no casualties, which is excellent news but it is still a scary thing to happen on your doorstep.
Here are a few more amazing pictures of Mount Tavurvur taken a few years ago by Flickr user Taro Taylor.
