Volcanos

Roundup of Global Volcanic Activity

Ibu volcano (Halmahera, Indonesia) activity update: New thermal signals have been detected recently coming from the northern rim of the volcano's summit crater, suggesting that the volcano has entered a phase of increased activity. The rarely visited remote Ibu volcano has been in more or less continuous eruption since 1998, slowly growing a new lava dome as well as producing strombolian to vulcanian-type explosions, with significant variations in intensity. The new thermal signals, in the same area where glowing rockfalls had been reported last year, probably indicate that the (continued) lava extrusion has increased recently.