September 4, 2013
Small ash emission Etna yesterday morning

The emission of ash yesterday, view the Webcam of Milo. Image: INGV

Small ash emission was observed yesterday morning on the NCSE (New East Cone)
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This would likely be the first eruptive activity since the spectacular series of paroxysms in the first months of the year.
It could indicate that Etna is about to wake up again with more activity in the near future.

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Large Explosion at Japan's Sakurajima Volcano Damages Cars 4Km Away (Sept 4)
A moderately large vulcanian explosion occurred this morning, producing significant fallout of lapilli and small bombs in several kilometers distance.

Cars parked at the Arimura Lava observatory observation point to the south of the volcano were damaged and windshields broken, at a distance of about 4 km. There are no reports of injuries to people.

The ash plume from the eruption rose to approx. 12,000 ft (3.6 km) elevation, i.e. about 2.5 km km height. In itself, today's explosion is not even among the largest that have occurred in the past months, but the volcano clearly continues to be in a state of elevated activity when seen on a long-term average.

The following webcam time-lapse video shows frequent ash emission and explosions from the volcano today:

In a recent interview with Radio New Zealand, volcanologist Masato Iguchi mentions that the volcano might be heading for a larger eruption comparable to that of 1914:

“The magma level deep within the volcano is back to about 90% of what it was before the 1914 eruption. So we do have to worry about a big eruption in the long term”.

Source

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Ecuador's Reventador Volcano Erupts (Sept 6)
Ash emissions and explosions from Reventador are occurring more frequently and have gained in strength, following a phase of less intense activity.

At least one of the recent explosions generated a pyroclastic flow on 5 September on the south side of the volcano.

Source

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Indonesia's Mt. Lokon Volcano Erupts (Sept 9)

The Mount Lokon volcano spews giant column of ash clouds more than 8,000 feet into the air during a series of eruptions seen from Tomohon, Indonesia. Officials imposed a 1.5-mile danger zone around the volcano and warned residents to remain alert. The eruptions are part of high volcanic activity of Mount Lokon that have been taking place since July 2011.

Mount Lokon in Tomohon, North Sulawesi, erupted again at 6:30 a.m. local time on Monday, spewing volcanic material from the Tompaluan Lokon crater over 1.5 miles high in the air.

“The lava flow reached several northern area villages, namely Pineleng, Tanawangko and Tateli,” said National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho in Jakarta on Monday, as quoted by Antara news agency.

Sutopo said the explosion was heard as far away as Minahasa, which is 10 kilometers away from the volcano.

The status of the volcanic activity remains at Siaga or “alert” (level 3), Sutopo explained.

He said Mt. Lokon had erupted tens of times since the alert status was announced on July 24, 2011.

“The Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center [PVMBG] has warned local residents and visitors to stay outside and to not go within a 2.5-kilometer radius of the Tompaluan crater,” said Sutopo.

Sources

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/09/09/mt-lokon-active-volca...

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/09/10/morning-smoke.html-0

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Peru Declares State of Emergency After 7 Volcanic Eruptions (Sept 12)

Peru declared a state of emergency Thursday in nine districts threatened by the Ubinas volcano, which has erupted seven times since September 1, spewing harmful gas and ash.

Authorities are distributing masks and have given themselves a 60-day period to relocate villagers from areas where ash is damaging crops and polluting water sources.

The explosions have sent a plume of smoke rising to 2,500 meters (1.5 miles) above the crater, according to volcanologists at the Geophysical Institute of Peru.

The first explosion on the night of September 1 was strong and followed by a series of lesser blasts, seismologist Victor Aguilar of the Geophysical Institute of the University of San Agustin de Arequipa told AFP.

The volcano, in the Moquegua department 1,250 kilometers (776 miles) south of Lima, is the most active in the country.

Since 1550, 25 eruptions have been recorded at Ubinas.

Sources

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/12/peru-declares-state-of-emerge...

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/286060-peru-in-state-of-emergency-f...

Thousands Flee as Mt. Sinabung Volcano Pelts Villages with Rocks (Sept 15)

A powerful eruption at Sumatra's Sinabung volcano forced more than 6,000 people to evacuate their homes.  The 2,600-metre (8,530ft) volcano in North Sumatra province erupted early on Sunday after being dormant for three years, sending thick ash into the sky with small rocks pelting nearby villages.

Thousands of residents living in 11 villages in Karo regency, North Sumatra, fled to traditional meeting halls or jambur and houses of worship after Mount Sinabung erupted early on Sunday.

As of 1 p.m. local time on Sept 15, waves of people continued to flock to several jambur and houses of worship. Some were evacuated by local authorities in military and police trucks, while the remainder fled on their own initiative.

On Sept 16, grey smoke still billowed from the peak of North Sumatra's tallest volcano, carrying ash eastwards. The authorities asked residents to remain alert for more potential eruptions.

Residents who live within a radius of 3 km from the volcano are not allowed to go home,

Around 6,000 people were staying in temporary shelters, including the Sempakata and Taras jambur, the Kabanjahe meeting hall, the Kabanjahe Mosque and the Kabanjahe Karo Batak Protestant Church.

Mt. Sinabung last erupted in August 2010, which was its first in 410 years. Thousands of residents fled, while several people died from smoke inhalation.

Sources

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/sinabung/news/37171/Sinabung-volcan...

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/09/15/thousands-flee-mt-sin...

http://news.sky.com/story/1141959/indonesia-volcano-spews-ash-down-...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-16/an-thousands-flee-sumatra-vol...

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/thousands-flee-as-volcano-erupts-...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/indonesia-mount-sinabu...

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/17/20540625-thousands-fl...

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Sep 15, 2013 7:42 a.m.
Sulphur Banks, Kilauea, Hawaii. Degassing through several zones in precaldera. Video. INVOLCAN

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Etna volcano (Sicily, Italy) activity update: sporadic ash emissions from New SE crater
Tuesday Sep 17, 2013 11:01 AM | BY: T

After a phase of complete quiet since 13 September, weak ash emissions occurred again at the New SE crater during the night 16-17 Sep,

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Low-ash yesterday around 8:40 p.m. (local time).

Monday, Sep 16, 2013
Batu Tara volcano (Sunda Islands, Indonesia) activity update
Strong strombolian to vulcanian activity continues. Another ash plume could be spotted on satellite imagery this morning. The estimated elevation was 7,000 ft (2.1 km).
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Indonesia's Mt. Sinabung Erupts Twice in 3 Days (Sept 18) 

Mount Sinabung erupted again today spewing volcanic ash and thick smoke up to nearly two miles into the air, causing forest fires to ignite on the slopes of the volcano, and forcing villagers returning home to flee the mountain again. The ash and smoke blew eastward to the hilly resort town of Brastagi.

Black smoke could also be seen billowing from two villages, according to an Associated Press photographer on the scene.

The 8,530-feet volcano in North Sumatra province first erupted Sunday after being dormant for three years. It spewed thick ash and small rocks that pelted neighboring villages.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said more than 6,200 people were evacuated as of Tuesday afternoon and were being sheltered in eight locations. Most of them were from six villages within nearly 2 miles of the mountain in Karo district.

The volcano's last eruption in August 2010 killed two people and forced 30,000 others to flee. It caught many scientists off guard because the volcano had remained quiet for four centuries.

Source

http://www.wunderground.com/news/indonesian-volcano-erupts-more-620...

Sinabung Volcano Evacuations Now Over 15,000 (Sept 19)
Up from previous estimates of 6,200, more than 15,000 people have fled their homes since Mt Sinabung erupted on Sept 15 and 18 in western Indonesia when the volcano spewed rocks and red-hot ash onto nearby villages and has been rumbling ever since.

The volcano sent a column of smoke as high as three kilometres (two miles) into the sky on Sept 17, forcing villagers outside the immediate "danger" zone to flee.

"So far, 15,281 people have been evacuated in 16 temporary shelters across Karo district," district administration spokesman Robert Peranginangin told AFP.

He said that some villagers, mostly men, had been returning to their homes by day to feed their cattle and returned to the shelters overnight.

Authorities warned airlines to take care flying in the vicinity of the volcano, while some light aircraft were advised to avoid the area.

The volcano had been dormant for nearly 100 years until it erupted in August and September 2010, forcing about 12,000 people to flee their homes.

Sources

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/19/more-than-15000-flee-volcan...

http://www.earthweek.com/2013/ew130920/ew130920d.html

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 ETNA

Etna: still lava ash from the new crater to the southeast

Continues even today the new phase of the eruption of Mount Etna in progress since yesterday afternoon, with the emission of lava ash from the new crater to the southeast

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Nicaragua's Telica Volcano Erupts (Sept 25)

A volcano in Nicaragua erupted on Wednesday. There was a second explosion that was mild and caused only gassing.

Located more than 100 kilometers northwest of Managua,Telica experienced an explosion inside its crater which was classified as "strong," the National System for Prevention, Mitigation and Attention to Disasters (SINAPRED).

"There was a explosion with ash emanation," said executive chairman SINAPRED, Guillermo Gonzalez, government media.

The explosion occurred at 7:50 (1300 GMT) and produced an ash plume about 1-1.5 km high.

The Telica volcano also raised its summit temperature to about 570 degrees Celsius, something abnormal INET authorities said, as the temperature is usually between 220 and 250 degrees Celsius.

Recommendations to citizenship provided the possibility of occurrence of acid rain that could affect 500 to 1,000 meters around. Among the recommendations is to avoid rubbing eyes with hands if you have been in contact with rainwater.

Villagers near the Telica volcano in the northwest of the Central American nation were told to remain on alert and to protect their water and food.

Sources

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130925/big-blast-then-q...

http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2013/09/25/ambito/163775-vigilan-activid...

http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/297634-reportan-explosio...

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/telica/news/37463/Telica-volcano-Ni...

http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2013/09/26/departamentales/163823

September 27, 2013

New mud volcano off the coast of Fiumicino- ROME- ITALY

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Fiumicino, new underwater geysers, the sea boils

New vulcanetto in action in Fiumicino
It would seem to be just a new vulcanetto with heads of gas and sand about 100 meters off the coast of Fiumicino: the phenomenon has started for less than 24 hours

Video of new volcanic eruption reported off the coast of Lazio Italy (Sep 27th):

Powerful Eruptions Continue at Japan's Sakurajima Volcano (Sep 27)
Activity has remained high at Sakurajima with powerful explosions and ash plumes regularly surpassing 10,000 ft altitude.

Explosions from the Showa crater often follow each other at intervals of few hours.

Most explosions are of vulcanian type (strong fragmentation of solid material blocking the vent, generation of tall ash plumes, often with shock waves and explosion sounds) and more rarely strombolian, with mainly incandescent lava ejected in fountains of several hundred meters.

Following most explosions, the volcano usually continues to near-constantly emit ash plumes of various size for several hours.

List of Explosions from Sakurajima (2013)

Source

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/sakurajima/news/37480/Sakurajima-vo...

Latest Sakurajima Eruption Causes Ash Fall in Kagoshima (Oct 4)

A large explosion occurred this morning at 12:03 local time.

An ash plume rose to 13,000 ft (4 km) altitude and drifted over the southern part of Kagoshima city, where the ash fall occurred. A similar explosion had already occurred the night before.

The volcano is in a particularly active phase. During the past 2 days, about 20 vulcanian explosions occurred, many of which produced ash plumes reaching 10-13,000 ft (3-4 km) altitude.

Source

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/sakurajima/news.html

Russia’s Klyuchevskoi Volcano Spews Ash 6 Km (Oct 10)
Eurasia's highest volcano, Klyuchevskoi, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, churned out ash to a height of six kilometers (3.7 miles) on Thursday morning, local Emergencies Ministry’s department reported.

“The cloud of ash moved in the eastern direction from the volcano,” the department said in a statement adding that the cloud of ash posed no danger to residential areas.

The statement warned all tourism companies operating in the region against holding tours in the areas located near the volcano, which can also pose threat to aircraft.

Klyuchevskoi’s most powerful eruption was registered between January and May of 2005. Following that eruption, the volcano "sank" by 50 meters (about 165 feet), from 4,800 meters (about 16,000 feet) to the current 4,750 meters (15,845 feet).

Source

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131010/184042103/Russias-Klyuchevskoi-Vol...

Saturday 12 Oct 2013

White Island eruption 'life-threatening'- NEW ZEALAND

White Island volcano, off the Bay of Plenty coast, has erupted for the second time in a week to a level that would have put anyone on the island at risk.

GNS Science says a moderately explosive eruption, lasting about a minute, occurred at 8:09pm yesterday.

It spread an ash cloud column and new mud across the main crater floor, according to camera images from the crater rim.

The latest eruption has prompted GNS to raise the volcanic alert level to two, and the aviation colour code to orange.

t says the latest eruption is larger than other recent events, and would have been life-threatening to people on the island

The event follows a 15-minute eruption on Tuesday afternoon, with an eruption of steam and mud generating a steam plume that may have been visible from the mainland. Continue...

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Wednesday, Oct 16, 2013

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Indian Navy confirms that an eruptio
n did take place on Barren Island.

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Barren Island volcano (India) - new eruption confirmed

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A new eruption occurred this week. This was confirmed by the Indian Navy (via twitter) who reported "smoke" and lava seen on the island from a surveillance plane. A large hot spot is visible on recent MODIS satellite data on the remote volcanic island, located in the Andaman Islands archipelago.
No details about the nature of the eruption are available at the moment, but the description and distribution of the hot spots suggests that it might be an explosive-effusive eruption with lava flows (possibly reaching the sea.
A satellite image from yesterday shows what likely is a steam/gas plume, but
doesn't allow to recognize details.

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Saturday, October 5

COPAHUE- Saturday, October 5
CHILE AND ARGENTINA ON ALERT FOR VOLCANO ACTIVITY INCREASE COPAHUE

The Copahue volcano spewed a column of gas intense and caused the alert authorities and residents to a series of earthquakes that were felt in the area. According to experts, this is a new phenomenon dome decompression to a system that is active since the eruption generated on 22 December.

"The volcano comes with activity for some time. The interpretation of what happened is that it is associated with a body degassing of magma. When closing the crater, intensifies pressure until resists gases and expels all the material hard

Still not clear to the specialists what material is being ejected from the solid in each of its decompression. "It sure is pulling duct material. I was recently looking at the material and many rock debris. I also noticed broken glass but may be more a result of the eruption. The crater is filled with activity material made ​​in December, " Continue...

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Shiveluch Volcano: Explosive Eruption, Ash Plume to 23,000 Feet (Oct 18)

As if it was jealous of Klyuchevskoy, the other Kamchatka volcano currently in violent eruption, Shiveluch has increased its activity recently. Dome growth has gained speed again, producing more frequent avalanches as well as explosions. Several explosions occurred during the past 24 hours sending ash plumes to 20-23,000 ft (6-7 km) altitude and drifting east.

A large SO2 plume, indicator of the arrival of fresh magma, can be seen on NOAA satellite data.

Source

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/kamchatka/sheveluch/news/38179/Shiv...

Klyuchevskoy Volcano: Ash Plumes Near 30,000 Ft Extending Over 1,000 Km (Oct 19)

Strong explosive and effusive activity continues at the Klyuchevskoy volcano in Kamchatka, Russia.

Last evening, ash emissions again reached almost 30,000 ft (8-9 km) altitude.

An ash plume dangerous for aviation is now extending about 736 mi (1188 km) to the south-east and east of the volcano (satellite data at 0135 UTC on October 19, 2013).

Source

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/klyuchevskoy/news/38230/Klyuchevsko...

9 Oct 2013

Mount Erebus- Mount Erebus is the second highest volcano in Antarctica

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On 9 Oct 2013 at 1224 UTC there was a very large Strombolian eruption with a very nice VLP signal. The earthquake resulting from the eruption/explosion was seen on the seismic records at Scott Base over 30 km away. This may have been the largest eruption since a 3 month highly explosive period in late 1984.

Erebus is rocking McMurdo!

October 20 2013
Activity at Erebus Todays seismic activity at Cones station. Two nice explosive eruptions at 0413 and 0728. The later is fairly large for Erebus and almost certainly a bomb thrower. Nice to see there is a return to stronger and larger Strombolian eruptions.

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'Volcano-like eruption' in Tusom Village [The Morung Express; 20 October, 2013]

IMPHAL, October 20 (PTI): A suspected volcano-like eruption has been reported in a remote village of Manipur near the India-Myanmar border which forced locals to evacuate the area, official sources said on Sunday. According to locals in Tusom village in Ukhrul district of Manipur, a deafening sound was followed by the rolling down of a huge boulder from a nearby hilltop which then released a lava-like liquid that charred trees and plants on the hill slopes.

Although the incident reportedly occurred on October 13, road link between the district headquarters and Tusom was so bad it took the villagers several days to reach the information about the matter to the officials concerned, sources said. The district headquarters is 120km away from the village. No casualty was, however, reported in the incident. Official reports from the district said mud, water and other discharges were still flowing from the hilltop. Villagers have moved to safer places in the neighbourhood, they added.

Sources said it would take time to assess whether the event was a volcanic eruption or not.

Deputy speaker of Manipur assembly, MK Preshow said he would lead an official team to assess the damages. Tusom village falls under his assembly constituency of Chingai.

Preshow said he would ask officials to take precautionary measures in the area, which falls near border pillar No. 129. Villagers in the said area rely entirely on the Somra area of neighbouring Myanmar for their items of daily use, Preshow said. However, since the road to Somra was blocked following the incident, steps would be taken by the state government to supply the villagers with essential items, Preshow added.

21.10.13

Crater of the Eyjafjallajokull- ICELAND

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Small steam cloud above the crater of the Eyjafjallajokull, taken on the 21.10.13 at about 10:30. The steam cloud was visible for several hours. (Translated by Bing)

More on the volcano-like eruption on the India-Myammar border:

Hill Range and Road Sinks from Tectonic Plate Movement (Oct 22)

A hill range at Tusom Christian village located under Jessami sub-division of Ukhrul district at the intersection of Myanmar (tectonic) plate and Indian plate has sunk following tectonic faulting of the two plates and the phenomenon is akin to mud volcano, experts have said.

Tusom village is located about 121 Kms away from Ukhrul district headquarters near the Indo-Myanmar border pillar number 129 .

The village has around 250 households.

One hill range located near the village has sunk completely together with the road which connects Tusom village with Somra village across the international border as a result of tectonic faulting in the night of October 11 .

On receiving reports about a volcano like eruption in the village, a team of Imphal based reporters headed for the village on October 20 .

After going for about 2 Kms from Tusom towards the international border, the journalists saw a large depression apparently formed by a sinking hill range.

A small current of water was also seen flowing in the sunken zone.

With the only road which connect Tusom with Somra sunk together with the hill range, the two villagers now remain cut off.

Nonetheless, some people have been using Chinese motorcycles to visit each other but they have to draw the motorcycles manually on different sections of routes which have become practically unmotorable.

According to Tusom village headman Miksha Zimik, there was some rainfall before the hill range broke down and sunk but there was no tremor or earthquake.

Villagers did not see any kind of smoke nor did they sense any unusual smell when the hill range broke down.

Yet, all the villagers were astonished on seeing what was happening in the village.

Sources

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http://post.jagran.com/manipur-volcano-like-eruption-forces-village...

Another Kamchatka Volcano Erupts (Oct 23)

A new explosive eruption began Wednesday with a 16,000 ft (5 km) ash plume drifting ESE. Ash fell in the Nalychevo valley, a natural park between Zhupanovsky and Avachinsky volcanoes. Zhupanovsky volcano had its last eruption in 1959.

Zhupanovsky volcano lies about 70 km northeast of the capital of Kamchatka, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Source

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Indonesia's Mount Sinabung Spits Powerful Burst of Ash (Oct 24)

Near the western edge of the Sunda Plate, Sinabung volcano erupted on Thursday, unleashing a column of dark volcanic material high into the air weeks after villagers were returning home from an earlier eruption. The explosion  shot black ash 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) into the air,

He said villages, farms and trees around the 2,600-meter (8,530-foot) -high rumbling volcano were covered in thick gray ash, prompting authorities to evacuate more than 3,300 people. Most were from two villages within 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) of the mountain in Karo district.

No lava or debris spewed from the volcano, and nearby towns and villages were not in danger, but authorities warned tourists to stay away from the danger zone located 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the crater, Nugroho said.

Last month, more than 15,000 people were forced to flee when the volcano rumbled to life after being dormant for three years, belching ash and smoke and igniting fires on its slopes.

The volcano's last major eruption in August 2010 killed two people and forced 30,000 others to flee. It caught many scientists off guard because it had been quiet for four centuries.

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 2013

ETNA- SICILY ITALY

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Double eruption going at Etna!
Esplosione al cratere di nord est!!!!!

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Sinabung: Volcano Erupts Again in Indonesia Forcing Mass Evacuations (Nov 3)

Mt Sinabung in Sumatra erupted twice on Sunday, hurling red-hot ash and rocks up to seven kilometres into the air and forcing more than 1,000 people to flee their homes.

1,293 residents from Mardinding and Sukameriah villages evacuated due to the eruption. The number is expected to increase as residents of Bekerah, Mimacem and Sukameriah villages will still be evacuated.  

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera...

http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/7723/20131103/mount-sinabung...

http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/91330/mount-sinabung-erupts-again...

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Sumatra's Mt Sinabung Erupts for 3rd Time in 3 Days (Nov 5)

The frequency and size of explosions at Mt Sinabung is accelerating.

Another eruption occurred this afternoon around 15:20 local time, sending an ash plume to 25,000 ft (7.5 km) altitude, the third such eruption in as many days since Sunday, Nov 3.

The Karo regency administration in North Sumatra has declared an emergency response period following the increasing frequency of Mount Sinabung’s eruptions in the last few days.

Regency administration spokesperson Jhonson Tarigan said the period was effective from this week for an indefinite period, or until the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) recommended otherwise.

The volcano has been placed on alert status as it is continuously spewing volcanic ash.

The latest eruption took place on Tuesday at around 2:30 p.m. local time when the volcano sent a plume of smoke 3-kilometers into the air, while the spread of ash was around 10 km to the southwest.

Jhonson said the eruption was strong as it lasted around 20 minutes and was heard at tourist resort Berastagi, which is located around 15 km from the volcano and 60 km from Medan.

No casualties were reported in the eruption. Jhonson said at least 1,700 people from four subdistricts of Simacem, Bekerah, Mardinding and Suka Meriah had been evacuated due to the eruptions, as their homes were very close to the volcano’s crater.

“Areas within a 3-km radius of Sinabung’s crater have to be cleared, that’s why people must evacuate,” he said.

The evacuees were placed in three evacuation centers in Payung, Tiga Nderket and Naman Teran districts under the responsibility of the respective district heads.

Romel Karo-Karo, a local community figure, said most of the evacuees were traumatized by the eruptions.

“They are very traumatized, especially when eruptions happen at night when they cannot see the volcano, but can suddenly feel the ash covering their villages,” Romel said as he was evacuating people in Naman Teran on Tuesday.

The two eruptions on Monday night, for example, terrified nearby residents as they also sounded very loud.

“The second eruption at about 9:30 p.m. brought with it searing material,” said Romel, adding that the first eruption on Monday lasted about eight minutes while the second one lasted about five minutes.

PVMBG head Hendrasto said on Tuesday the alert status of Mt. Sinabung was maintained as its eruptions continued.

This, he said, was based on the result of observations made from the Mt. Sinabung observation post in Simpang Empat district from Oct. 29 until Nov. 2.

Apart from that, the eruption tremor amplitude and the duration of the tremors were also increasing from day-to-day, he added.

Previously, thousands of people living on Mt. Sinabung’s slopes were evacuated when the volcano, which is 2,460 meters above sea level, erupted in mid September — the first eruption since August 2010. The 2010 incident, which was the first eruption in almost 410 years, claimed several lives and displaced thousands.

Before the eruption, the volcano was categorized as dormant, or a type B volcano, but was later categorized as dangerous or a type A volcano.

According to the PVMBG, type A volcanoes are those that have erupted at least once since 1600, type B volcanoes have not erupted since 1600 but still show signs of volcanic activity, and type C volcanoes have not erupted at all in recorded history.

Sources 

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http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/sinabung/news/38567/Sinabung-volcan...

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/sinabung/news/38528/Sinabung-volcan...

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Etna - explosive activity at the NSEC NOVEMBER 6 2013

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Monday, November 11 2013

Etna, today was very long and spectacular eruption, followed by loud noises: a summary

After an interval of 16 days of relative quiet, the New Southeast Crater of Etna this morning has produced a new episode of lava fountain

The Section of the INGV Catania explains that the climax stage with fountains of lava, ash emission and lava flows, began at about 05:00, after about 10 hours of Strombolian activity gradually increasing.

The poor weather conditions have strongly prevented visual observations of the activity, which was accompanied by the usual increase of the amplitude of volcanic tremor. The phase of maximum intensity of the activity lasted for 7 and a half hours, ending at 11:30 am, the end of the lava fountain was followed by a long series of powerful explosions that have generated strong explosions heard in the area north of the volcano. Have been reported relapse of ash and lapilli to the east and north-east of Etna. A voluminous lava flow has expanded from the New Southeast Crater to the south, while two small lava flows were issued to the east-southeast and northeast.

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White Island- NEW ZEALAND Monday, November 11 2013

Some pretty gnarly gas coming out of the crater lake today — at White Island Whakatane
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Mt. Sinabung's Eruptions Intensify,  Thousands Evacuated (Nov 11)
4,300 residents in 5 villages in North Sumatra were evacuated following intensified volcanic ash and pyroclastic flows from Mount Sinabung’s latest eruptions.

The volcano erupted twice Nov 11, the first more powerful, spewing volcanic ash 4,000 meters and molten lava flowing down the mountain 1,000 meters from the crater.

During the first eruption, volcanic ash reached Gurukinayan village and caused panic among residents, but Gurukinayan is located outside the 3-kilometer danger zone.

"So far, 5,265 people have been evacuated from seven villages," local government spokesman Robert Peranginangin told AFP.

"They were all very scared as the volcano has not shown signs of slowing down."

Residents from five villages had been evacuated following the first eruption two weeks ago. Four of the five villages are located within the 3-kilometer radius. They are Simacem, Bekerah, Suka Meriah and Mardinding,

“We evacuated 4,300 people from the five villages,” said Jhonson, adding the evacuees were accommodated in a number of shelters in Kabanjahe, Tiga Nderket, Paung and Namanteran districts.

Hundreds of locals forced to evacuate have suffered respiratory problems and eye irritation from exposure to volcanic ash.

A doctor at the Tiga Nderket shelter, Bertha Sembiring, said that the number of evacuees treated had increased from around 30 people per day to around 100 in the last two days. “Some of the patients are children, who are also suffering from diarrhea,” said Bertha on Tuesday.

Sejahtera Bangun, a resident of Payung district, which is located around 8 kilometers from the volcano, said that residents in his village had also suffered from respiratory illness.

“The volcanic ash was carried to our village. The eruption scared us. We are worried pyroclastic flows may head to our village,” Sejahtera said.

Disaster Response commander Let. Col. Meyer Putong, who is also Tanah Karo Military Command chief, said the evacuees' were not allowed to return home until conditions improved.

“Mount Sinabung erupts almost every day, so conditions aren’t safe for evacuees to return home,” Putong said, adding the emergency response status was still imposed.

The Karo regency administration has declared an emergency response period following the increasing frequency of Mount Sinabung’s eruptions since Nov. 5.

The imposition of the emergency response period has forced evacuees, who are mainly farmers, to suffer losses. Their farms can no longer be tilled as they are covered by thick ash.

North Sumatra Agriculture Office head M. Roem said farmers suffered losses of more than Rp 4 billion (US$345,930) due to the eruptions.

The eruptions have also disrupted the supply of food commodities, in particular vegetables, from North Sumatra to several other areas in Sumatra, including Batam in Riau Islands.

Sources

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Monday, November 11. 2013

Etna,- SICILY ITALY extraordinary spectacle at sunset here is the extremely rare "smoke ring" [PHOTOS]

It is repeated tonight at sunset on Mount Etna quit rare and exceptional, 6 months after the last time when, in April, the volcano had surprised all ( the pictures ). At sunset, after the paroxysm of this morning, the New Southeast Crater / East, the volcano has produced many many smoke rings: a rare phenomenon and particularly fascinating. It is a visible vortex ring of steam and gas which is expelled from a vent volcanic

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 Japan' Sakurajima Volcanic Explosions Nearly Continuous (Nov 14)

The Showa crater has been producing nearly constant ash emissions and vulcanian explosions with ash plumes rising up to 14,000 ft (4.2 km) altitude.  

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16° Parossismo Etna- SICILY ITALY 16-17 novembre 2013

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Indonesia's Sinabung and Merapi Volcanoes Erupt Nearly Simultaneously, Sparking Mass Evacuations (Nov 18)

Two volcanoes in Indonesia over 1,000 miles apart have erupted within hours of one another, disrupting flights and sparking a mass evacuation of thousands of displaced villagers while others internal refugees still wait to return to their homes after an earlier eruption.

Mount Sinabung spewed ash 8,000 meters (26,250 feet) into the air. A total of 6,000 villagers living near the mountain in north Sumatra have been evacuated from the most recent eruption and one from earlier in November.

People displaced by the volcano's earlier eruption were still housed in temporary shelters set up by emergency services, unable to return to their homes. The volcano has erupted several times since September.

Officials raised the alert status of Sinabung to the second-highest level after an eruption early this month, prompting evacuation of more than 6,000 villagers living near its slopes. Its activities have continued since then, sometimes unleashing lava down the slopes.

Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan said his office has issued a notice Monday for all airlines to avoid routes near the mountain.

Residents in Medan, the provincial capital about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeastward, could see black smokes billowing from Sinabung.

Hours earlier, Mount Merapi, Indonesia most volatile volcano in Central Java, spewed volcanic ash about 2,000 meters (6,500 feet) into the sky, causing ash to fall in several towns.

The massive rumbling from Mount Merapi on Monday morning caused panic among hundreds of residents living on the slopes of the volcano who promptly headed to evacuation assembly points.

The volcano, located on the border between Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces, erupted at around 4:53 a.m., spewing volcanic materials 2 kilometers into the air and covering areas east of the volcano with dust and ash.

The volcanic ash also affected residents in nearby towns. In Surakarta, Central Java, residents were shocked by the sight of volcanic ash covering streets, gardens and roofs. The ash rain continued until around 10 a.m. on Monday.

Surowedanan village in Boyolali, located around 17 km from the peak of Mount Merapi, was also covered by volcanic ash. “This morning, when I went out of the house at around 5 a.m., I saw ash everywhere,” said Veronica Maria Sayektiana, of Surowedanan. According to Veronica, residents were wearing masks when they ventured out of their homes as the ash was still falling along with the drizzle.

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Mount Sinabung has now been erupting for most of November:

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Nov 17, 2013

Volcano discovered smoldering under a kilometer of ice in West Antarctica

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In January 2010 a team of scientists had set up two crossing lines of seismographs across Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica. It was the first time the scientists had deployed many instruments in the interior of the continent that could operate year-round even in the coldest parts of Antarctica.

Like a giant CT machine, the seismograph array used disturbances created by distant earthquakes to make images of the ice and rock deep within West Antarctica.

In the meantime, automated-event-detection software was put to work to comb the data for anything unusual.

When it found two bursts of seismic events between January 2010 and March 2011, Wiens' PhD student Amanda Lough looked more closely to see what was rattling the continent's bones.

Was it rock grinding on rock, ice groaning over ice, or, perhaps, hot gases and liquid rock forcing their way through cracks in a volcanic complex?

Uncertain at first, the more Lough and her colleagues looked, the more convinced they became that a new volcano was forming a kilometer beneath the ice.

The discovery of the new as yet unnamed volcano is announced in the Nov. 17 advanced online issue of Nature Geoscience.

In 2010 many of the instruments were moved to West Antarctica and Wiens asked Lough to look at the seismic data coming in, the first large-scale dataset from this part of the continent.

"I started seeing events that kept occurring at the same location

youngest ones."

The events were weak and very low frequency, which strongly suggested they weren't tectonic in origin. While low-magnitude seismic events of tectonic origin typically have frequencies of 10 to 20 cycles per second, this shaking was dominated by frequencies of 2 to 4 cycles per second.

But glacial processes can generate low-frequency events. If the events weren't tectonic could they be glacial?

To probe farther, Lough used a global computer model of seismic velocities to "relocate" the hypocenters of the events to account for the known seismic velocities along different paths through the Earth. This procedure collapsed the swarm clusters to a third their original size.

It also showed that almost all of the events had occurred at depths of 25 to 40 kilometers (15 to 25 miles below the surface). This is extraordinarily deep—deep enough to be near the boundary between the earth's crust and mantle, called the Moho, and more or less rules out a glacial origin.

It also casts doubt on a tectonic one. "A tectonic event might have a hypocenter 10 to 15 kilometers (6 to 9 miles) deep, but at 25 to 40 kilometers, these were way too deep," Lough says.

A colleague suggested that the event waveforms looked like Deep Long Period earthquakes, or DPLs, which occur in volcanic areas, have the same frequency characteristics and are as deep. "Everything matches up," Lough says.

The seismologists also talked to Duncan Young and Don Blankenship of the University of Texas who fly airborne radar over Antarctica to produce topographic maps of the bedrock. "In these maps, you can see that there's elevation in the bed topography at the same location as the seismic events," Lough says.

The radar images also showed a layer of ash buried under the ice. "They see this layer all around our group of earthquakes and only in this area," Lough says.

Their best guess is that it came from Mount Waesche, an existing volcano near Mt Sidley. But that is also interesting because scientists had no idea when Mount Waesche was last active, and the ash layer is sets the age of the eruption at 8,000 years ago.

What's up down there?

The case for volcanic origin has been made. But what exactly is causing the seismic activity?

"Most mountains in Antarctica are not volcanic," Wiens says, "but most in this area are. Is it because East and West Antarctica are slowly rifting apart? We don't know exactly. But we think there is probably a hot spot in the mantle here producing magma far beneath the surface."

"People aren't really sure what causes DPLs," Lough says. "It seems to vary by volcanic complex, but most people think it's the movement of magma and other fluids that leads to pressure-induced vibrations in cracks within volcanic and hydrothermal systems."

Will the new volcano erupt?

"Definitely," Lough says. "In fact because of the radar shows a mountain beneath the ice I think it has erupted in the past, before the rumblings we recorded.

Will the eruptions punch through a kilometer or more of ice above it?

The scientists calculated that an enormous eruption, one that released a thousand times more energy than the typical eruption, would be necessary to breach the ice above the volcano.

On the other hand a subglacial eruption and the accompanying heat flow will melt a lot of ice. "The volcano will create millions of gallons of water beneath the ice—many lakes full," says Wiens. This water will rush beneath the ice towards the sea and feed into the hydrological catchment of the MacAyeal Ice Stream, one of several major ice streams draining ice from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf.

By lubricating the bedrock, it will speed the flow of the overlying ice, perhaps increasing the rate of ice-mass loss in West Antarctica.

"We weren't expecting to find anything like this," Wiens says

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Eruption has occurred on Nishinoshima in the ironically named Volcano Islands off Japan

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Eruption near Japanese island

It has been reported that an eruption had occurred on Nishino-shima in the Volcano Islands in the Pacific Ocean. At around 10:00 the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force discovered an ash plume rising from the area and at approximately 16:00 the Japanese Coast Guard confirmed that a black plume has been rising from a new island (about 200m in diameter) around 500m to the southeast of Nishino-shima. The last eruption of Nishino-shima came in 1973-1974 when an eruption merged a few islands into one.

Eruption plume seen rising from a newly formed island close to Nishino-shima. PHOTO SOURCE: Japanese Coast guard.

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Nishima-Shima volcano (Japan): submarine volcanic eruption gives birth to new island

Mexico’s Colima Volcano Erupts (Nov 18)
On Monday night and Tuesday morning, Mexico's Colima volcano re-awakened with two powerful eruptions, spilling lava down its slopes and spewing ash that reached several villages including Cheese, the municipality of Cuauhtémoc, Colima, and some towns in the state of Jalisco.  From the city of Colima there was a big cloud of steam that rose to just over 2 miles.

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Saturday november 23 2013

ETNA- SICILY ITALY

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Another webcam shot of Etna's paroxysm going on right now

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Big one going on at Etna right now!

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Thousands Flee as Indonesia's Sinabung Volcano Erupts 8 Times in a Few Hours (Nov 24)

Sinabung volcano in western Indonesia erupted 8 times in just a few hours, raining down rocks over a large area and forcing thousands to flee their homes, officials said on Sunday.

Mount Sinabung has been erupting on and off since September, but went into overdrive this weekend, repeatedly spewing out red-hot ash and rocks up to eight kilometres into the air.

Powerful bursts of hot ash and gravel erupted from a rumbling volcano in western Indonesia early Monday, sending panicked villagers streaming down the sides of the mountain.

6 new eruptions early Monday morning (Nov 25) sent lava and searing gas tumbling up to 1.5 kilometres down the slopes. Volcanic material spewed as high as 2,000 metres into the air a day after authorities had raised the volcano's alert status to the highest level.

About 15,000 people have been evacuated from 17 villages, packed into crowded government camps away from the danger zone five kilometres around the crater, The evacuation zone was expanded from three kilometres on Monday, Nov 25.. 

Thick, gray ash covered villages, farms and trees as far as 70 kilometres north of Mount Sinabung's crater, hitting the towns of Binjai and Langkat.

"Everything turned hot surrounding us," said Jatah Surbakti, a 45-year-old farmer who fled with his wife and four children to a shelter on trucks provided by the local disaster agency, along with hundreds other villagers.

"We were running in panic under the rain of ash and gravel ... I heard many women and children screaming and crying," he said, adding that his fruit and vegetable farms were destroyed by the ash and his children's schools were disrupted.

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Mt Etna Showers Sicily in Volcanic Rock (Nov 23)

Mt Etna's latest eruption rained rocks on homes and cars in the Sicilian town of Giardini-Naxos.

People have been putting up umbrellas to protect themselves from the shower of volcanic rock.

The cloud of ash turned the sky black - and the stones which fell were bigger than any seen before.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Etna eruption with strong explosions scary: trembles even Calabria! The images LIVE

Is intensifying eruption of Etna that continues to become more than 3 hours, with high lava fountains, impressive explosions and volcanic tremor that is surpassing even the levels reached crazy Saturday morning. This eruption, in fact, it seems even more intense than that on the sabbath, the explosions are very strong, and are felt even in southern Calabria , where the earth trembles as if there was an earthquake.

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#etna 19° parossismo #etnalive 2 dicembre 2013

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December 7, 2013

The Klyuchevskoy on red alert- Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia

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