Fuego had one of its most explosive and vigorous eruptions in years over the weekend. The active Guatemalan volcano, located ~40 km from the capital city of the country, was producing an ash plume that topped out at almost 5 km / 16,000 feet and, if the reports can be believed, a fire fountain at the summit that was well over a 1 km / 3,200 feet. Some of the video of the eruption clearly shows large incandescent blocks being thrown from the summit crater (see right) and the scene in the daytime is ash billowing. However, but Sunday morning, the activity had begun to diminish at Fuego, but ash was still falling on communities near the volcano with 700 meter / 2,300 ash plumes from smaller explosions.
The volcano was placed on "orange" alert status by CONRED (Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres) and the Guatemalan government has ...
