Sorry about the sparseness of posts this week. It is a combination of a relatively quiet time for volcanic eruptions right now and the start of the new semester here at Denison. I'm going to try to put together a Vulcan's View for tomorrow as there have been a pile of great satellite images lately, but today I thought I'd have a few words about some news and views.
Costa Rica: We haven't talked much about Turrialba lately, but the volcano was placed back on alert today after a new emission of ash and steam, along with an increase in seismicity. The eruption itself looks to have only last 20 minutes, but little else will be known until OVSICORI (the Costa Rican monitoring agency) can do a fly-over of the summit region. You can see some video of Turrialba's new activity here. Indonesia: I was pointed to this, ahem, overblown ...
