Category Pyroclastic Flows

Moderate pyroclastic flow at Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka

Shiveluch volcano satellite image by (c) Google A moderately sized pyroclastic flow as result of small collapse of part of the active lava dome occurred this afternoon (Kamchatka time), sending an ash plume to approx. 15,000 ft (4.5 km) altitude.…

Pyroclastic flow, ash plume 3-4 km high at Sinabung volcano in Sumatra, Indonesia

Ash plume from a pyroclastic flow at Sinabung this morning (photo: Dedi Vernandho Ginting / facebook) A moderately large pyroclastic flow occurred this morning (08:22 local time) at the volcano. The associated ash plume rose to 18,000 ft (5.4 km)…

Eurasia’s highest volcano erupts in Kamchatka for second time in year; Yellow Warning Issued

Eurasia’s largest volcano, the Klyuchevskoy, located on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, has erupted for the second time this year, said Olga Girina, chief of the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.  …

Explosion inside the Colima Volcano prompts for immediate evacuations in Mexico

Residents of the Mexican hamlet of La Yerbabuena were evacuated after an explosion was registered inside the Colima Volcano, emergency management officials told EFE.   The inhabitants of that small community on the side of the volcano, which straddles the…

Eruption at Bulusan Volcano; Classes suspended in two towns in the Philippines

Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon province spewed ashes anew Tuesday morning producing a 1-kilometer high grayish steam and ash plume which drifted towards the west-southwest.   The volcano, which has similar unrest just more than a month ago,  generated two steam-driven…

Thousands flee Volcano Sinabung eruption in Indonesia

A resident rides his motorcycle as Mount Sinabung spews ash at Namanteran village in Karo Regency, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province yesterday More than 10,000 villagers have fled a rumbling volcano in western Indonesia this month, most in recent days after…