Hello from snowy Minnesota! I'm here at Gustavus Adolphus College to give a talk for the Geology Department (special thanks to Dr. Elli Goeke for inviting me out!)
Thought I'd throw out a few updates while I have some down time before the talk:
Bulusan and Taal: PHIVOLCs has been reporting a slight uptick in earthquakes at Bulusan - increasing over the last few days to 6-8 seismic events per day. However, there is thick cloud cover at the summit region of the volcano, so no observations have been made about the state/extent of steam plume from the vents at the summit. However, even with this small change at Bulusan, the alert status remains at 1 with the permanent 4-km danger zone and flight restrictions still in place. I actually hadn't noticed before, but PHIVOLCs has some nice lahar/lava flow and ash/pyroclastic flow hazard maps for the Bulusan region on ...
