Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Glow from Telica this morning
During the past days(in particular since 6 May), activity of the volcano seems to have increased. The nightly glow from the crater has become stronger and intermittent weak ash emissions also occurred in the past days.
These occasional ash plumes, brownish in color, appeared to have risen calmly from the crater (without much impulse). Hence, they were probably not driven by near-surface explosions, but rather deep-seated activity inside the conduit; their brownish color furthermore suggests that the ash came mainly from older fragmented rock instead of fresh magma, although this is difficult to judge from webcam imagery alone.
INETER has not yet commented on the activity. In its last bulletin from 5 May, activity was described as “usual”.
However, since 6 May, an increase in tremor amplitude and frequent small explosion signals (?) have become visible on INETER’s online seismic data as well. It will be interesting to see if the activity will show significant changes in the near future or not.
Courtesy of volcanodiscovery.com
Discover more from
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.