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Until recently, scientists had confirmed the existence of a single magma chamber, located directly beneath the caldera of Mount St. Helens. But scientists have found three more sizable chambers deep below and to the east of the peak. The…
View of the eruption yesterday (image: Ade Adrian / facebook) The eruption has intensified a lot over the past few days. Activity takes place from a lateral vent on the Barujari cone inside the volcano’s caldera, producing continuous ash…
Another (the third) eruptive phase began at the volcano yesterday evening. From 16:00 local time, the volcano observatory recorded an increase in tremor and new lava was seen in the vent after 20:00. Shortly after 04:00 this morning, activity…
According to local news, the eruption restarted today after 4 days of quiet. Observers detected minor strombolian activity from a small, 1 m diameter vent at the bottom of the large new cone. Small explosions every few seconds…
Activity has calmed down. Explosions have been only of smaller size, but the lava flows on the upper southern and western flanks remained weakly active last evening. Courtesy of volcanodiscovery.com
A 45-year-old farmer from Tiganderket district, Karo Regency, North Sumatra, was found dead on Saturday morning, several hours after he was swept away by Mount Sinabung’s cold lava flood. Abdi Surbakti has become the 15th victim of the impact…
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 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. …