Category Active Volcano

Growing lava dome has filled inner crater at Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico

The volcano’s lava dome has filled the inner crater, CENAPRED observed during an overflight on 27 January. The high level of the dome explains the relatively strong glow visible at night.    According to CENAPRED, it is likely that small…

Strong ash emissions, incandescent ejections reported at Bromo volcano in East Java, Indonesia

According to a local news article referring to information from the volcano observatory, the volcano’s eruption started to eject visibly incandescent lava bombs this morning.    In more technical words, this suggests that by now the eruption entered a so-called…

Increase of activity, strombolian explosions, pyroclastic flow At Fuego volcano In Guatemala

The activity at Fuego might be picking up towards a new paroxysm (eruptive phase with strongly increased effusion rate, resulting in lava fountaining and lava flows).    We camped on the SW side of the volcano last night, and observed…

Mt. Kanlaon spews ash anew; 29 volcanic quakes recorded in the Philippines

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported an ash eruption from the active crater of Kanlaon Volcano reaching as high as 4,500 meters above its summit on Sunday.   The heaving volcano has registered 29 earthquakes since Sunday…