Volcanos

Roundup of Global Volcanic Activity

Pacaya (Guatemala): Near continuous spattering and weak strombolian activity is occurring from a vent deep inside the Mackenney crater.

Fuego (Guatemala): Another small paroxysm - a peak in activity with lava fountains and lava flows - occurred at the volcano last night. It seems that activity with increasing effusion rate began during the night Sunday-Monday, as the volcano observatory reported a new lava flow on the southern flank the next morning. It was headed towards the Las Lajas and El Jute drainages and had reached 1500 m length by Monday morning. By Monday evening 21:15, the flow was almost 2 km long and intermittent strombolian explosions at the summit had merged into pulsating low lava fountains, generating an ash plume that rose approx. 1.5 km and drifted 20 km west and southwest.