Volcanos

Roundup of Global Volcanic Activity

Piton de la Fournaise (La Réunion): A new eruption - the first in 2016 - started at the volcano this morning, around 08:05 local time when the volcano observatory registered a strong tremor signal, typical for the onset of Piton de la Fournaise's fissure eruptions. All public access to the Enclos was closed after the Prefecture declared alert level 2 shortly after. The new eruption seems to take place from a vent near Château Fort in the southeastern sector of the Enclos, but a team of volcanologist who went into the field could not make direct observations so far because of bad weather.