So, the start of the week has now officially ranked on the busiest I have had in, well, years, so the posts have been more than a little sparse - and I apologize for that. Luckily, most of the volcano news has been about volcanoes calming down rather than heating up, so I can play a little catch up here with a brief summary of all the simmering systems.
All three of the eruptions that have been in the news over the last few weeks were downgraded to lower alert status by their host country's respective volcano monitoring agencies. Bromo and Merapi in Indonesia have seen the alert status lowered at both volcanoes. Bromo was lowered to the Alert Level 2 (of 4) after observations of the volcano showed declining activity (according to Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center monitoring chief Agus Budianto). At Merapi, the alert status was also ...
