ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan sent geologists to investigate reports of new volcanic activity that could force 150,000 people to flee the earthquake devastated Himalayan foothills.
Scientists hoped Alai valley villagers are wrong and speculated aftershocks and landslides from the Oct. 8 earthquake could be responsible for the reports of a volcano, The Independent reported.
While no volcanic activity was found in an aerial survey Monday, an army official said 150,000 people in the area would have to leave if that is the case. Geologists began combing the area Tuesday.
This month's powerful 7.6 earthquake earlier killed an estimated 80,000 and left 3.3 million homeless.
The U.N. World Food Program warned aid workers have at most six weeks to get six months of supplies to remote areas of Pakistan as winter closed in.
"We must have much more funding, much sooner, to gain as much speed as humanly possible in the face of gigantic logistics difficulties," the U.N.'s Amir Abdulla told the newspaper.
