Nicaragua's Telica bursts back into action

Telica, in Nicaragua, looks to have awoken after a few years of relative quiet for the active Central American volcano. The ~1000 meter Telica erupted over the last few days, producing small ash plumes (see below and top left) that reached up to ~1000 meters above the crater (video), along with a number of explosions that were heard across the region. Combine this with increased seismicity and a steam-and-ash plume noticed earlier in the week, and we could be seeing Telica entering its first eruptive period since 2008. This renewed activity prompted the evacuation of over 500 workers from a geothermal plant that are near the volcano, while the ash from the current explosions has fallen on some of the villages near Telica (which is located over 120 km from the capitol city of Managua). INETER, the Nicaraguan volcano monitoring agency, was reported as saying this activity at Telica is ...