Table 1 Headline analysis of front page flags (FP-F) and spreads (FP-S) relating to activity at Piton de la Fournaise during March, April and May 2007
From: Newspaper reporting of the April 2007 eruption of Piton de la Fournaise, part 2: framing the hazard
Date | Type | Text: French (with English translation) | Hazard | Text Theme | Picture Theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
27 March | FP-F | Volcan en vigilance et séisme à Saint-Denis (Volcano under surveillance and earthquake at Saint-Denis) | Seismic | volcano/vigilance/seismic/Saint-Denis | NO PICTURE |
31 March | FP-F | Le Piton de la Fournaise en éruption depuis hier soir (Piton de la Fournaise in eruption since yesterday evening) | Eruption | Piton/eruption/yesterday | NO PICTURE |
1 April | FP-F | Une autre éruption en vue (Another eruption on the horizon) | Eruption | eruption | explosion/ejecta |
3 April | FP-S | De la route à la mer (On the road to the sea) | Lava | road/sea | lava/responders/cameras/sightseers |
4 April | FP-F | NUAGE DE GAZ SUR ST-JOSEPH: Une cinquantaine d’élèves intoxiqués (GAS CLOUD OVER ST-JOSEPH): Around 50 students intoxicated | Gas | cloud/gas/toxic | NO PICTURE |
4 April | FP-S | LE VOLCAN DEVIENT FOU (THE VOLCANO'S GONE MAD) | Lava | volcano/mad | lava/fire/orange/sightseer |
5 April | FP-F | Le Tremblet se prépare à évacuer (Le Tremblet prepares to evacuate) | Evacuation | Le Tremblet/evacuate | NO PICTURE |
5 April | FP-S | Alerte aux GAZ (GAS alert) | Gas | alert/gas | cloud/white/lava/orange |
6 April | FP-S | Le Tremblet sous les cendres (Le Tremblet under the ash) | Ash | Le Tremblet/ash | people/cars/ash/road/umbrella |
7 April | FP-S | Le volcan s’effondre (The volcano collapses) | Collapse | volcano/collapse | crater/grey/black |
8 April | FP-F | Volcan à grand spectacle (The volcano big show) | Eruption | volcano/show | NO PICTURE |
9 April | FP-F | Sainte-Rose: de drôles de poissons repêchés au large de l’éruption (Sainte-Rose: the funny fish fished up at the height of the eruption) | Ocean Entry | Sainte-Rose/fish | fish/orange/bucket |
9 April | FP-S | Le Dolomieu après le chaos (The Dolomieu after the chaos) | Collapse | Dolomieu/chaos | brown/steam/crater/ash |
10 April | FP-F | Le volcan livre les mystères des abysses (The volcano delivers the mysteries of the deep) | Ocean Entry | volcano/mystery/abyss | lava/orange |
11 April | FP-S | Le nouveau visage du volcan (The new face of the volcano) | Collapse | face/volcano | crater/gray/sightseer/camera |
13 April | FP-S | Hier 15h05 (Yesterday 15h05) | Collapse | yesterday | brown/plume/volcano |
22 April | FP-S | Les secrets de la Soufrière (The secrets of the Soufrière) | Collapse | secret/La Soufrière | grey/crater/people |
27 April | FP-S | La lave en route vers le Tremblet (Lava on the road towards Le Tremblet) | Lava | lava/Le Tremblet | lava/orange/road/fire engines/village |
3 May | FP-F | Une des plus grosses éruptions du volcan (One of the biggest eruptions of the volcano) | Eruption | big/eruption/volcano | lava/orange |
5 May | FP-F | Quatre points de vue ouverts ce matin (Four viewing points open this morning) | Eruption | four/viewing/open | lava/plume/white/black/green |
6 May | FP-F | Volcan: 135 euros pour avoir vu les coulées de trop près! (Volcano: 135 euro to have seen the lava flows close up) | Lava | volcano/135 €/view/lava | tourists/barrier/lava/black |
13 May | FP-F | Le sommet s’effondre à nouveau (The summit collapses again) | Collapse | summit/collapse/again | trees/brown/cone/yellow/lava/black/tourists |
26 May | FP-F | Coulées du Grand-Brûlé: pas de route avant août (Lava flows of the Grand-Brûlé: no road before August) | Lava | lava/Grand-Brûlé/road/August | NO PICTURE |