New reports of volcanic activity from around the world! Thanks again to Sally Kuhn Sennert for putting together these reports for the Global Volcanism Program.
Some highlights:
Colombia It was a busy week, volcanically-speaking, in the South American nation. We're talked about Nevado del Ruiz and the GVP mentions that the volcano has also shown changes in "deformation and geochemistry", which for the latter I assume means from the gases being released (but it could be water as well). Over at Nevado del Huila, the active summit dome produced plumes that reached up to 7.5 km / 25,000 feet along with incandescence and hot rock falls as part of a partial dome collapse (spanish).
ChilePlanchon-Peteroa continues to produce ash plumes that reach as high as 3-6 km / 10-20,000 feet. Changing winds have raised considered of ash fall (spanish) in communities near the volcano, but ONEMI says there is no ...
