Category Volcanic Ash

Turrialba Volcano Awakes Again In Costa Rica

Costa Rica’s Volcanological and Seismological Observatory (OVSICORI) has reported that there were two small eruption from the Turrialba Volcano that were responsible for a small amount of ash falling nearby on Friday.   No additional eruptions followed today. The volcano…

Explosions of small to moderate size continue to occur from the summit crater at Colima volcano in Western Mexico

Explosion at Colima volcano yesterday Activity at the volcano remains essentially unchanged. Explosions of small to moderate size continue to occur from the summit crater at irregular intervals (up to a few times a day). Courtesy of volcanodiscovery.com

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.  …